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Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo: Jerome Delay/AFP

NPA supports Billy Downer as Zuma serves summons

The prosecuting authority is expecting more attacks on prosecutors as more state capture cases are enrolled

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)

UPDATE: High court hears pleas to return to Zuma to prison

Arthur Fraser had no discretionary power to grant Jacob Zuma’s release once the medical parole board found he did not suffer from a terminal condition, high court hears

Carl Schoombie

Petition opposes parole for Carl Schoombie’s killer

Family of Cape man who was beaten to death fights Juane Jacobs’s claim that he needs medical parole

The former president Jacob Zuma (Rogan Ward/AFP)

Zuma’s health not relevant, says his lawyer

With legal challenges to his medical parole looming, the former president’s lawyers opted to first argue for the removal of the prosecutor

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Editorial: Despite Zuma saga, the law will prevail

We must hold faith that law will prevail

Buddies: The national commissioner of correctional services, Arthur Fraser, should have recused himself from the decision whether Jacob Zuma should get medical parole given his history at the State Security Agency and with the former president. Photo: Felix Dlangamandla/Netwerk24

Fraser saves Zuma from prison – again

The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Gallo Images / Phill Magakoe)

Legal challenges loom against Zuma’s medical parole

The DA announces it will approach the high court, and the Helen Suzman Foundation has also threatened action

Clive Derby-Lewis gets parole

The terminally ill man who provided the gun that killed Chris Hani is to be out of prison by the end of next week.

An urgent motion has been launched by Derby-Lewis in the Pretoria High Court

Everyone’s word against Derby-Lewis’s

Clive Derby-Lewis denies claims that he instructed his legal team to sue Minister Michael Masutha, who rejected his medical parole.

Eugene de Kock.

De Kock gets parole but Derby-Lewis’ medical parole rejected

Justice minister says former Vlakplaas commander Eugene de Kock will be released on parole while Clive Derby-Lewis remains behind bars.

Another chance at parole for Derby-Lewis

The quest for medical parole continues for Chris Hani’s assassin, Clive Derby-Lewis, as the medical parole board files another recommendation.

Karl Lagerfeld’s supermarket show has been described as normcore.

Jackie Selebi dies aged 64 after long illness

The former police commissioner has died in hospital after a long illness, which in 2012 prompted his release from prison on medical parole.

An urgent motion has been launched by Derby-Lewis in the Pretoria High Court

Clive Derby-Lewis has ‘months to live’

Lawyers for Chris Hani’s killer, Clive Derby-Lewis, have revealed he has only months to live during a high court application for his release.

Clive Derby-Lewis denied medical parole again

An application for the medical parole of convicted killer Clive Derby-Lewis has been denied, according to a report.

Correctional services widens criteria for medical parole

Correctional services widens criteria for medical parole

Drastic changes have been made to the conditions under which medical parole is granted by the department of correctional services.

Selebi case yields new parole structure

The department of correctional services says it has established a new parole board, to come into effect in March, to deal with terminally ill inmates.

Public protector’s gaze falls on Derby-Lewis

Lawyer: Derby-Lewis’s cancer is aggressive

Clive Derby-Lewis, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of SACP leader Chris Hani, learned on Friday that his prostate cancer was aggressive.

Derby-Lewis’s cancer ‘worse than expected’

Derby-Lewis’s cancer ‘worse than expected’

Chris Derby-Lewis’s lawyer issued a statement on Thursday saying that the convicted murderer’s cancer has spread.

DA: Review Shaik parole ‘and put the matter to rest’

The DA on Tuesday again urged Correctional Services Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula to review fraud convict Schabir Shaik’s medical parole.