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Jacob Zuma addresses members of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party outside the high court in Johannesburg on April 11, 2024. (Photo by EMMANUEL CROSET / AFP)

Concourt asks electoral commission and MK party for further submissions in Zuma case

The court wants the parties’ views, by Tuesday, on whether IEC commissioner Janet Love should have recused herself from the decision on Jacob Zuma’s eligibility

Jeremy Acton, leader of the Dagga Party. (David Harrison/Gallo)

Activist calls on president not to sign ‘malicious’ Cannabis for Private Purposes Bill

Jeremy Acton says the bill violates the 2018 constitutional court privacy judgment

The former president says he will remain a member of the ANC but will do whatever it takes to save the party.(Photo by Guillem Sartorio / AFP)

SCA finds Zuma’s release was unlawful, orders his return to prison

The court strongly criticised last month’s statement by the department of correctional services that Zuma was a free man

River Club.

River Club property developers continue construction despite interim interdict

Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust maintains recommencement of construction not in contravention of the law

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Michele Spatari / AFP)

High court orders Zuma’s return to prison

The court set aside Arthur Fraser’s decision to release the former president on medical parole, rejecting his reasons as unconstitutional and irrational

Former president Jacob Zuma. (File photo)

Zuma’s rescission application dismissed with costs

Former president Jacob Zuma fails to meet requirements in his application to set aside his contempt order and prison sentence

Brutal: Hissène Habré in N’Djamena in 1983. The former dictator died in prison this week, aged 79. (Photo by JOEL ROBINE/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa in brief: 28 August- 4 September

This is what happened on the African continent this past week

People carry goods as they loot and vandalise the Lotsoho Mall in Katlehong township, east of Johannesburg, on July 12, 2021. – Several shops are damaged and cars burnt in Johannesburg, following a night of violence. Police are on the scene trying to control further protests. It is unclear if this is linked to sporadic protests following the incarceration of former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)

Looting, burning spreads from KZN into Johannesburg as pro-Zuma protests turn violent

The violence comes in the wake of protests last Friday when Zuma’s supporters went on the streets in KZN

Justice and Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola has insisted that former president Jacob Zuma will not receive special treatment while incarcerated at the Estcourt correctional centre in Durban.  (Photo by Darren Stewart/ Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Zuma will not get any special treatment while in prison, says Lamola

The former president’s prison security will be handled by correctional services and there will not be given bodyguards or special security

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Kim Ludbrook/AFP)

Zuma’s high court bid to avert arrest hinges on jurisdiction, judge says

Dali Mpofu ‘kitchen-sinked’ the case for jurisdiction, but the Zondo commission will counter that the former president’s only avenue is the apex court

Former president Jacob Zuma.

Zuma gives his own version of events, detailing why he won’t turn himself in to begin his jail sentence

In an address to his supporters, the former president referred to a conspiracy against him, involving Thuli Madonsela, the judiciary and his political rivals

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Getty Images)

ConCourt to hear Zuma’s rescission application on 12 July

The commission will oppose the former president’s application and was directed to file papers to the court next week

The court strongly criticised last month’s statement by the department of correctional services that Zuma was a free man.

Zuma wants to go to jail. Perhaps

After all, it would be hard to appear on the arms deal corruption case if he were serving time for contempt of court and the Zondo inquiry

(Phill Magakoe/AFP)

Zondo welcomes Zuma’s 15-month sentence

The Zondo commission says the Constitutional Court sentence vindicated the rule of law and the authority of the courts

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Kim Ludbrook/AFP)
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In depth: ConCourt sentences Zuma to 15 months in jail, gives him five days to report

The judgment seeks not only to punish Zuma for failing to heed the court’s order that he testify before the Zondo commission, but also for his egregious efforts to impugn the…

Former president Jacob Zuma. (File photo)

Zuma sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court

The judgment seeks not only to punish Zuma for failing to heed the court’s order that he testify before the Zondo commission, but also for his egregious efforts to impugn the…

Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma have expressed shock over the 15-month jail sentence imposed on him by the Constitutional Court for his failure to appear before the Zondo commission into state capture.

Shock and outrage as Zuma gets 15 months in jail for contempt

Former president’s supporters say they reject his custodial sentence

Defiant response: Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma gather outside the Zondo commission in 2019. Zuma has since flouted three summonses to appear before the inquiry. (Guillem Sartorio/AFP)

The trouble with clamouring for the Constitutional Court to rule on Zuma

Despite the public interest in the ruling, the commission’s deadline has become irrelevant as it abandoned hope of forcing the former president to testify

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Kim Ludbrook/AFP)

Zuma threatens uprising against courts in latest attack on judiciary

The former president’s latest invective came after the Constitutional Court heard argument from the Zondo commission that he must be jailed for aggravated contempt

Former president Jacob Zuma and now leader of uMkhonto weSizwe party. File photo

Zuma misses court deadline to respond to contempt application

Recalcitrant former president holds virtual meeting with ANC top six