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Apr
12
2022
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s Zuma granted further delay in corruption trial

South Africa’s Zuma granted further delay in corruption trial

NEWS
 A South African court granted a further delay in former president Jacob Zuma's arms deal corruption trial, pending the outcome of his latest attempt to have the lead prosecutor taken off the long-running case. Zuma, ousted as head of state in 2018 after nine years in power, has pleaded not guilty to charges of corruption, money laundering and racketeering over a $2 billion arms deal in the 1990s. He alleges the lead prosecutor is biased against him, but the High Court and Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) have so far rejected his attempts to have the prosecutor replaced. Pietermaritzburg High…
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Apr
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Arms Deal: Zuma  goes for private prosecution

Arms Deal: Zuma  goes for private prosecution

NEWS
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma is pursuing private prosecution proceedings to remove the lead prosecutor in an arms deal corruption trial after failed legal challenges, his foundation said on Sunday. Last month the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) torpedoed Zuma's latest bid to have lead prosecutor Billy Downer taken off the case after accusing him of bias and leaking confidential information to a journalist in contravention of the national prosecution act, among other complaints. The SCA dismissed the application for leave to appeal on the grounds that there is no reasonable prospect of success and there is no other…
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Mar
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Interpol red notice: what it means and why South Africa requested it

Interpol red notice: what it means and why South Africa requested it

NEWS
THE International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has issued a red notice for two members of the wealthy but now disgraced Gupta family, Atul and Rajesh Gupta. This could now pave way for their arrest and extradition from the United Arab Emirates to face fraud and money laundering charges in South Africa. The Guptas – who at their height owned a business empire spanning computer equipment, media, and mining – are close friends of former President Jacob Zuma. A judicial commission of inquiry into state capture recently found that, with Zuma’s help, they orchestrated massive corruption. Thabo Leshilo asked Bernadine Benson…
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Mar
01
2022
By The African Mirror
S.A’s Zuma, Mantashe to face for criminal investigations

S.A’s Zuma, Mantashe to face for criminal investigations

NEWS
A South African corruption inquiry said it had referred former president Jacob Zuma and current mineral resources minister Gwede Mantashe for investigation by law enforcement with a view to establishing potential graft charges. The inquiry was established in 2018 to examine allegations of high-level graft during Zuma's nine years in power from 2009 and is publishing its findings after more than three years of investigations. Its latest report focuses on corruption and fraud related to privately-owned services company Bosasa, now in voluntary liquidation after banks closed its accounts amid graft allegations. "The evidence revealed that corruption was Bosasa's way of…
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Sep
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma decision set for October 26

Zuma decision set for October 26

NEWS
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma will know in five weeks if his attempt to get an acquittal without going on trial in the multi-billion rand corruption has succeeded. Judge Piet Koen said he will try to deliver judgement then on Zuma's plea to have the lead prosecutor, Billy Downer, removed from a case he has been involved in for almost two decades because of perceptions that Downer was biased and not impartial. "I will try and hopefully have the judgment ready by then," Koen said before adjourning the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The trial over a 1990s deal was meant…
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Sep
20
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma heads for Arusha, in search of justice

Zuma heads for Arusha, in search of justice

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER FORMER South African president Jacob Zuma is taking his fight for justice beyond the border of the country. Hours after the attempt to get Zuma’s 15-month jail sentence rescinded by the Constitutional Court, the JG Zuma Foundation announced that he would approach the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (ACPHPR) for relief. “H.E Prez Zuma has been in consultation with his legal team on various recent developments.He has given his lawyers instructions to take the legalisation of detention without trial by Acting Chief Justice Zondo & the ConCourt to the African Court on Human & Peoples…
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Sep
18
2021
By The African Mirror
The horse has bolted – SA’s highest court judges tell Zuma

The horse has bolted – SA’s highest court judges tell Zuma

NEWS
IN rejecting his application for the decision to jail him for 15 months to be rescinded, judges in the Constitutional Court, South Africa’s highest court, have had some tough words for former president Jacob Zuma. The judges of the Constitutional Court, in a majority judgment, found that there were no grounds for the court to overturn its own judgment and said it would not be in the interest of justice to do so.  Zuma, who has served two of his 15 months sentence, has been granted medical parole and will serve the rest of his sentence outside prison. The decision…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
SA High Court asked to review, set aside Zuma’s medical parole

SA High Court asked to review, set aside Zuma’s medical parole

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF), a non-profit public interest organisation, has launched an urgent high court application seeking a review or setting aside of the decision to grant medical parole to former South African President Jacob Zuma, who is serving a 15-month jail term. The HSF has asked the court to order SA’s National Commissioner of Correctional Services Arthur Fraser to provide reasons as well as a full record of the decision. The organisation has asked for copies of documents that formed part of the basis or were considered in making the decision. These documents should include…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
​​South African court pushes back Zuma corruption hearing to Sept 21, 22

​​South African court pushes back Zuma corruption hearing to Sept 21, 22

NEWS
A South African court pushed back to September 21 and 22 a hearing scheduled for Thursday in a corruption trial of former president Jacob Zuma linked to a 1990s arms deal. The 12-day postponement was agreed between Zuma's lawyers and prosecutors and granted by Judge Piet Koen at the Pietermaritzburg High Court. It is the latest in a series of delays in the long-running case, in which 79-year-old Zuma faces multiple charges including corruption, racketeering and money laundering over the weapons contract over which he allegedly received kickbacks. Zuma was jailed for 15 months in July for defying a constitutional…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
South African state insurer in talks over larger bailout

South African state insurer in talks over larger bailout

BUSINESS
SOUTH Africa's state-owned insurance company Sasria is in talks with the National Treasury for a larger bailout than the 3.9 billion rand ($272 million) already promised, its managing director has told a parliamentary committee. Sasria, the only insurer covering political violence in Africa's most advanced economy, has suffered a sudden deterioration in its financial position after some of the worst violence in the post-apartheid era erupted in July soon after the arrest of former president Jacob Zuma. More than 300 people died and around 3,000 shops were looted in the immediate aftermath of Zuma's arrest, with anger over entrenched poverty…
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