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Efficiency: Justice Ramond Zondo wants that the commission’s scope be reduced to the parameters set by the former public protector and that other agencies investigate the other matters.

Zondo asks court for more time

The deputy chief justice says the inquiry’s terms of reference are too broad and it would take six years to look into state capture in such detail

The suspended public protector told him she would pleased if the probe into the scam delivered no adverse findings, Reginald Ndou tells inquiry.

“Rot at the public protector’s office,” says former chief operating officer

Basani Baloyi has submitted an affidavit to the ConCourt asking for leave to appeal the high court ruling in her case against the public protector

New era: Nelson Mandela

What the law could clarify this year

Lawfare: Major developments are on the cards where law and politics meet, including the first amendment to South Africa’s Bill of Rights

Michael Komape’s parents

Michael Komape’s family awarded R1.4m in damages by appeal court

Supreme Court of Appeal says the attitude of the education authorities “to be deprecated in the strongest possible terms”

Kanya Cekeshe is one of about 9% of prison inmates who fall under the special dispensation

#FeesMustFall activist Kanya Cekeshe eligible for immediate parole

Sentence remissions announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa means that about 9% of inmates are eligible for a reduced sentence

Basani Baloyi wanted the court to order her reinstatement and to declare that the public protector had breached her constitutional duty to act without fear, favour or prejudice.

High Court dismisses case against Public Protector by her former COO

Judge Teffo found that the high court did not have jurisdiction to hear the case

A unanimous judgment from acting Justice Rammaka Mathopo decided that it is not just the man whose penis penetrates who is the rapist — a person can be convicted based on the doctrine of common purpose. (David Harrison/M&G)

ConCourt: It’s not just the man whose penis penetrates who is the rapist

Even a person who has not ‘instrumentally’ been involved can now be tried for the crime

Anon: Morné Nurse (centre) leaves the high court after the start of sentencing proceedings of the woman convicted of kidnapping his daughter when she was a baby. (Rodger Bosch/AFP)

Children’s rights win over media freedom

The court found that the law’s unequal treatment of child accused and child witnesses as well as child victims was unconstitutional.

Suspended Public Protector Busisiswe Mkhwebane. (Oupa Nkosi)

Mkhwebane sticks to her guns on Zuma’s tax records

In her answering affidavit, the public protector says the Sars commissioner should withdraw or adjust his court case against her

Graphic by John McCann/M&G

Hate speech infringes on free speech

The SCA’s finding that there should be clarity on hate speech is welcome, but its interim order leaves some vulnerable groups without protection

on Thursday, Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi argued that the highest court should tailor a “public protector-specific” test for an interim interdict. (Gallo)

​ConCourt scrutinises interim interdicts in public protector ‘rogue unit’ case

During the hearing the justices of the ConCourt grappled with some of the legal questions posed by its earlier decision in the infamous Nkandla case

The General Council of the Bar of South Africa has rounded on the Jacob Zuma Foundation for its “unrestrained” attacks on the Zondo Commission, the latest of which impugned its decision to brief advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC in its legal battle with the former president. (Herman Verwey/AFP)

Facts, law will decide ‘Legal Derby’

Dali Mpofu (for the public protector) and Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (for her ex-operations chief) played to their case’s strengths

President Cyril Ramaphosa will appear before the Zondo commission for four days in late April, to testify both in his capacity as president of the country and as president of the ANC. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Ramaphosa calls the public protector’s affidavit “disingenuous” and “evasive”

The president continues to question Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s motives

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Rogan Ward/Reuters)

Zuma argues another court could think differently in permanent stay application

In his application for leave to appeal, Zuma argued that an appeal court could find the prosecution had dirty hands so the trial should not proceed

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Mkhwebane hits back at Baloyi

The public protector has asked the court to strike out claims that she and her chief executive had acted unconstitutionally

Under pressure: Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan outside a courtroom. Together with President Cyril Ramaphosa, he is fighting a legal battle against the public protector. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

‘Rogue unit’ case will set precedent

The ConCourt hearing on the interim interdict against Mkhwebane is about more than politics

Former minister Bongani Bongo was accused of trying to to bribe advocate Ntuthuzelo Vanara, the evidence leader in the parliamentary inquiry into state capture at Eskom, in October 2017. (David Harrison/M&G)

Former minister Bongani Bongo arrested on corruption charges

The arrest is a big statement of intent by the justice system, but his defence has already said it wants to make “representations”

“No other person would be permitted to get away with the kind of obfuscation contained in the president’s affidavits,” Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said in court papers. (Phill Magakoe/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Mkhwebane hits back at Ramaphosa

In an answering affidavit, the public protector accuses the president of obfuscating and being part of a “grand stratagem” to have her removed

‘Irrational’: Edward Kieswetter, commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, infers that Busisiwe Mkhwebane has pursued ‘extraneous or ulterior objectives’. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Clash of the Titans: Sars vs Busi

The stand-off between the public protector and the taxman is about more than Zuma’s tax

Opel Corsa GSi: sounds to delight and annoy you (Photo Archive)

Opel Corsa GSi: sounds to delight and annoy you

This is an agile little car, with the vroom-vroom factor. It’s fun to drive if you’re alone, but the two-door design is impractical if you have kids