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The Arms Deal, a gateway to state capture

The players in the weapons scandal involving bribes of about $300 million escaped justice

Former president Jacob Zuma Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

Corruption charges or not, ANC in the kingdom pins election campaign on Zuma. Again.

The party’s braai stand betrayal is forgiven as uBaba is brought in to rescue the party

Former president Jacob Zuma Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

Another day, another summons in Jacob Zumaland

Nxamalala really does love a lawyer’s letter — as long as it’s not addressed to him

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Supplied

Zuma arms deal trial postponed until August

The delay has been forced by the former president’s latest application challenging the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

Downer: Zuma has been tripped up by his Stalingrad tactics

The former president’s 11th-hour bid to appeal to the apex court on his standing as a prosecutor was not properly filed, hence the arms deal trial should resume

Former president Jacob Zuma. (EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP via Getty Images)

Zuma turns to Concourt in bid for acquittal

It’s the latest, and last available, attempt to appeal the dismissal of his plea that Billy Downer and the NPA can’t prosecute him in the arms deal case

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

Downer says Zuma must put down R1-million for private prosecution

NPA prosecutor says the sum is needed as security for legal defence costs in a matter seen as another bid by Zuma to delay his arms deal trial

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Michele Spatari / AFP)

Zuma claims sudden illness as court hears successful bid for trial postponement

The former president’s counsel told the high court he suffered a medical emergency, before pleading that the trial be delayed pending his latest attempt at securing the removal…

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

Once again Zuma claims sudden illness as court hears bid for postponement

The former president’s counsel told the high court he suffered a medical emergency.

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

Bullets fly as the politicos hunker down

Stellenbosch will also be under fire if Lindiwe Sisulu gets the nod in December

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

In sickness and in health: Former President Jacob Zuma waves at his supporters outside the Pietermaritzburg high court. (Photo by Gallo Images/Phill Magakoe)

Zuma corruption case hearing postponed for health assessment

The full impact of the former president’s health status on his trial remains unclear

Former president Jacob Zuma and former president Nelson Mandela.
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Zuma implicates Mandela and foundation in arms deal

The former president has written to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, requesting documents that he says will prove his innocence

Former president Jacob Zuma’s (right) says he is a political prisoner. (Rogan Ward/AFP)

Zuma’s trial postponed over health risk

The former president requires surgery, which has been put off for the past 18 months, according to his doctor

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Kim Ludbrook/AFP)

Hearing on Zuma’s plea for acquittal postponed to August 10

Judge Piet Koen granted the former president’s application for a postponement but will only decide in August whether to grant an order that a virtual hearing would be…

Bheki Cele (right) and Jacob Zuma (left) share a relationship dating back to the 1980s

Once they were comrades, now Cele arrests Zuma, who fired him as police commissioner

Bheki Cele and Jacob Zuma share a relationship dating back to the 1980s

Many ANC leaders and officials have been implicated in allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing; Zuma’s is merely the most prominent case

The charges against Zuma must be viewed in the context of the ANC leadership crisis

Many ANC leaders and officials have been implicated in allegations of corruption and other wrongdoing; Zuma’s is merely the most prominent case

Former president Jacob Zuma’s (right) says he is a political prisoner. (Rogan Ward/AFP)

NPA says Zuma is trying for another delay in arms deal trial

The former president’s application to remove Billy Downer as prosecutor comes as he runs out of road in more than one legal battle

Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo says former president Jacob Zuma had “sought to thwart” attempts by Barbara Hogan, then the public enterprises minister, to appoint a Transnet group chief executive from 2009 to replace Maria Ramos.

Zuma’s intended trial date likely to see application for Downer’s recusal

The long-running arms deal case is heading for further delays after Zuma’s attorney and senior counsel withdrew at the 11th hour

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Editorial: Pay up, JZ – you have the cash

Jacob Zuma knows how to find money and spend it — as long as it’s not his own