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Muhammad Rahim has been confined to the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison for the last 12 years without charge. But now his lawyer and a rights body fear the Afghan is facing a potentially serious health risk. A medical examination carried out by Guantanamo’s Joint Task Force (JTF) in 2017 and on subsequent unknown dates have uncovered several “nodules” in his lung, liver, kidney and rib, raising fears of cancer. Since a biopsy is yet to be done and, as per a medical provider at the detention centre, Rahim needs an MRI test as well, it remains unknown whether the lumps are malignant.

The Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac) has applied to the Constitutional Court to join as “friend of the court” in the Zondo commission’s application to order former president Jacob Zuma to comply with a new summons to appear and give evidence early next year. Casac intends to argue in favour of the commission’s position that Zuma should answer any questions put to him by the evidence leader and the chairperson Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, “subject to the privilege against self-incrimination, and may not rely on the right to remain silent”. Having se...

Dear Justice Zondo, We the undersigned organisations, whistle-blowers and human rights activists, co-ordinated by Open Secrets, write to you as the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud enters its important final phase of work. We write to you today concerning a glaring gap in your work to date: framing the accountability of those corporations complicit in State Capture. There is an urgent need to call corporations to provide detailed evidence of their alleged complicity in State Capture to the commission. We recognise that the commission is under signi...

Jacob Zuma defies ANC and ConCourt By Baldwin Ndaba Share Johannesburg - Former president Jacob Zuma has defied the ANC’s instruction to all its members to co-operate with the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture if summoned to appear before it. However, Zuma’s latest defiance came after he was ordered by the Constitutional Court to file answering affidavits to the Judicial Commission’s urgent application to force the former president to comply with the summonses served on him to appear before it in January and February. The Constitutional Court had ...