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Disciplinary processes for errors and misdirections committed while working as commissioners may deter judges from taking on commissions, says justice ....
Criminal networks that were established during the apartheid era have remained entrenched and have continued plundering public resources throughout South Africa’s 28 years of democracy – with impunity. ....
weekly newspaper. It would not be presumptuous for one to assume that whatever argument Jacob Zuma’s legal team presents to the Pietermaritzburg high court – for the state prosecutor Billy Downer to recuse himself – will eventually fail. The former president returns to court, for his fraud and corruption trial, on 26 May, when the application for Downer to be removed from the case will be heard. Strangely, the news of the pending application has been known for a while. One would have expected that by the time Zuma appeared in court for the start of his trial on 17 May, the affidavit – stating the alleged case against Downer – would have been ready. That was not to be, lending credence to the widely held belief that this is another one of Zuma’s tactics to delay his trial indefinitely. Surely if Zuma had evidence of nothing short of misconduct on Downer’s part, he would have gleefully handed it over to the court already? ....