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Zuma’s vicious response to Zondo’s jail threat

Zuma’s vicious response to Zondo’s jail threat

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER HOURS after an unprecedented announcement that he may face a jail term, the former South African president came out with guns blazing, attacking Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, the judiciary and reiterating his decision not to appear before the commission probing state capture. The commission, chaired by Zondo, announced after Zuma failed to attend the hearing as summoned that it would approach the Constitutional Court and seek a conviction as well as a prison term. Zuma has however, made it clear that he was ready to face the consequences of his decision.   “Now that it seems that…
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Jacob Zuma’s ultimate defiance

Jacob Zuma’s ultimate defiance

AFRICA MIRROR REPORTER FORMER South African president Jacob Zuma has waved the proverbial middle finger at the country’s highest courts, the government and the law enforcement authorities. In an unprecedented move, Zuma, who has been ordered by the Constitutional Court, SA’s apex court to attend and testify at the Zondo Commission into allegations of state capture, fraud and corruption, declared that he will defy the court order. However, Zuma, in a lengthy public statement that also extoled his history with the ANC and the struggle against apartheid, declared that he willing to face the consequences of his decision. “I do…
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Zuma forced to appear before commission

Zuma forced to appear before commission

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE highest court in South Africa has ruled that former president Jacob Zuma should appear,  give evidence and answer questions at the Zondo Commission into state capture, fraud and corruption. The Constitutional Court not only ordered that Zuma must obey all summonses issued by the Zondo Commission, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, but also slapped Zuma with the cost of the application. In a unanimous decision, the court said while Zuma does not have the right not to answer questions, he would be entitled to show to the commission why answering questions may incriminate him.…
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Exposed: intelligence agents rampant abuse of the law

Exposed: intelligence agents rampant abuse of the law

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DAMNING allegations of wanton abuse of the law and misuse of hundreds of millions of rands by agents of the South African State Security Agency (SSA) have been tabled at the Zondo Commission into State Capture. Loyiso Japhta, the acting-director general has revealed that: Units of the SSA were used for political purposes to support a faction within the governing ANC.SSA agents created non-profit organisations to support the ANC.Money was used to fund a union created to neutralise the threat posed by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union which became a major union in the mine…
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Ex-Eskom CEO’s brutal attack on Ramaphosa

Ex-Eskom CEO’s brutal attack on Ramaphosa

AFRICA MIRROR REPORTER  BRIAN Molefe, a former CEO of South African power utility Eskom has launched an unprecedented attack on the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing him of being used as a pawn by a coal mining company. Molefe, in his testimony before the Zondo Commission into State Capture, also laid into Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, describing him “smooth-talking and dictatorial”. On Ramaphosa, he said the president, a former secretary-general of the ANC and the National Union of Mineworkers, was used by coal mining company Glencore to milk billions out of Eskom.  Molefe said Glencore, which bought Optimum coal…
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COVID-19 stops Zondo Commission

COVID-19 stops Zondo Commission

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER COVID-19, the virus that has killed over 34 000 South Africa and infected over 1.2-million has put brakes on the Zondo Commission into state capture. Presiding officer, Deputy Judge President Judge Zondo was forced to stop the hearings after the lunch break because he had come into contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Zondo, following the government’s COVID-19 protocols, stopped the hearing and has gone into isolation. It is expected that the commission staff that has been in contact with him would also go into isolation. “We are supposed to continue but we are…
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South Africa’s ex-leader Zuma ordered to reappear at graft inquiry

South Africa’s ex-leader Zuma ordered to reappear at graft inquiry

SOUTH Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been ordered to reappear at an inquiry into state corruption during his term after he abruptly left the proceedings last month, according to a summons issued by the head of the investigation. Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is also asking the Constitutional Court, the highest legal authority in the land, to compel Zuma to attend and "account for his exercise of public power". In his second appearance at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture two weeks ago, Zuma had his application for the judge to recuse himself dismissed. Zuma then left proceedings…
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Call for South African President to testify on role in state capture

Call for South African President to testify on role in state capture

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER ADVOCATE Vuyani Ngalwana, one of South Africa leading legal minds and an acting-judge in the high court, has called for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to be called to testify before the Zondo Commission about his role, when he was deputy president, in state capture. Ngalwana has written to the chairperson of the Commission, Deputy Judge President to make a case why Ramaphosa should be invited to testify. He has also called for Kgalema Motlanthe, a former deputy president to Zuma, to also be asked some questions at the commission. The acting-judge also expressed a view that…
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Dudu Myeni to face criminal charges for unmasking protected witness

Dudu Myeni to face criminal charges for unmasking protected witness

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER DUDU Myeni, businesswoman and chair of the Jacob Zuma Foundation is to be charged for disclosing the identity of a witness who had been granted anonymity by the judicial commission into state capture. Deputy Judge President Raymond Zondo, the commission’s chair, announced today that he had instructed his legal team to lay a criminal complaint against Myeni, the former chairperson of South African Airways. The police will be asked to investigate a possible violation, by Myeni, of the commission’s act and regulations.s During her appearance before the commission, revealed the identity of Mr X and was asked…
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ANC and mayor of Johannesburg implicated in damning kickback scandal

ANC and mayor of Johannesburg implicated in damning kickback scandal

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER SOUTH Africa’s governing party, the ANC, faces damning allegations that it is funded through kickbacks from irregular state tenders. Evidence led at the judicial commission into state capture, chaired by the country’s Deputy President Raymond Zondo, contains traces of up to R16-million in “donations” to the ANC’s Johannesburg region from EOH, a company that got tenders, worth hundreds of millions, from the ANC-run Johannesburg City Council. Steven Powell, managing director of ENSAfrica, which conducted investigations of EOH transactions, presented damaging documented evidence which traced transactions of millions that were paid to the ANC and a company owned…
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