Mike Hellens has asked Menzi Simelane if he was trying to "duck the obligation" to hand over a letter after lawyers requested all correspondence.

Former NPA boss Menzi Simelane said that he did not determine what documents made up the government’s submission to the Ginwala inquiry.

President Jacob Zuma is going ahead with a probe into National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana’s fitness to hold office.

Past national directors of public prosecutions have struggled to remain untainted by political machinations.

Further damning evidence of how the former director general of the justice department, Menzi Simelane, scuppered the arms deal probe has emerged.

The former acting national director of public prosecutions had to write an angry letter to the justice department over Menzi Simelane’s actions.

Richard Calland lets us in on an imaginary conversation in the president’s office which reveals Zuma’s real conflicts of interest.

The government might have thought that, after the ConCourt delivered its judgment Sanral’s e-tolling matter, a new era had been ushered in.

In a blistering judgment, the Constitutional Court has set aside President Jacob Zuma’s decision to appoint Menzi Simelane as prosecutions boss.

The Constitutional Court has declared Menzi Simelane’s appointment as National Director of Public Prosecutions invalid.

President Jacob Zuma’s appointments to the prosecution service have poisoned South Africa’s sensitive criminal justice system.

Lawyers for Menzi Simelane have argued that the Constitution gives the president the right to appoint whom he sees fit.

Prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane appears to be at the centre of a bid to thwart the prosecution in SA of Zim officials accused of torture.

The fraud and corruption case involving Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block, which dates back to 2010, has been postponed until next year.

The DA will begin a probe into the fitness of government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi to be a member of the Media Development and Diversity Agency board.

The DA wants Menzi Simelane to pay for the appeal against the ruling invalidating his NPA job, even though ConCourt must review the case anyway.

Although NPA boss Menzi Simelane has been replaced by Nomgcobo Jiba for now, this might not be the end of the road for the under-fire legal eagle.

President Jacob Zuma has named controversial advocate Nomgcobo Jiba to act as head of the NPA, replacing "invalid" appointee Menzi Simelane.

President Jacob Zuma has given up on his bid to appeal a court ruling that found his appointment of Menzi Simelane as head of the NPA was invalid.

The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling on Menzi Simelane was not a direct attack on Zuma, writes <b>Richard Calland</b>.