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Former MP Tony Yengeni. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Yengeni’s complaint against Zondo is legally uncertain

The chief justice was acting in a non-judicial capacity when chairing the state capture inquiry, so the complaint probably falls outside the law but underscores the risk of…

Edwin Sodi before his testimony at the Zondo commission.

Zondo fingers Edwin Sodi, Nthimotse Mokhesi and Thabane Zulu in graft in asbestos scandal

The three, along with co-accused Ace Magashule, recently applied to the high court to have charges stemming from the scandal set aside but were unsuccessful

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Michele Spatari / AFP)

Zuma was the Guptas’ puppet, Zondo finds

The former president’s dismissal of Nhlahla Nene as finance minister for spurious reasons showed the veracity of the Gupta family’s claim that he would do anything for them

‘Offensive’: Links between the private and the public sectors are not unusual but can go horribly wrong, as was the case of the alleged strategy by former South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane and Bain’s local managing partner Vittoria Massone for Moyane ‘to seize Sars’. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images /Rapport)

State capture: The complicity of big, bad business

The private sector has had close ties with the government for decades. Some see nothing wrong with this, but other say this relationship is at the very heart of corruption

President Cyril Ramaphosa will only act on the recommendations of the commission that probed state capture when the final of its three reports has been handed over to him.

First part of Zondo’s state capture report to be released to public shortly

President Cyril Ramaphosa said implementation of recommendations against those implicated in the report should only be expected in the latter part of 2022

Keeping silent: Jacob Zuma and his confidante Dudu Myeni have refused to answer important questions in the Zondo commission’s quest to unearth the full extent of state capture during Zuma’s time in office. Photo: Kevin Sutherland/Sunday Times /Gallo Images

Zuma’s silence leaves state capture’s truth up to inference

The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

High court grants Zondo commission a three-month extension

The latest extension is the commission’s fifth to date

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Rajesh Jantilal/AFP)

Ramaphosa’s Zondo refrain of ‘I did not know’ rings false

It became hard to suspend disbelief as Ramaphosa repeatedly told the Zondo commission that he did not know of the abuses ripping through the state machinery while he was deputy…

President Cyril Ramaphosa conceded on August 11 2021 there had been rampant state corruption while he was deputy to former president Jacob Zuma, but said he did not resign as that would have stymied his efforts to fight the rot. (Photo by Sumaya Hisham/Pool/AFP)

The recent past subverts Ramaphosa’s line of plausible denial at Zondo commission

The president was presented with evidence about state capture that it was hard to believe escaped the attention of those in power, including himself

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Lulama Zenzile/Die Burger/Gallo)

Ramaphosa says he threatened to resign over Des van Rooyen saga

The machinations around the finance ministry at the time clearly posed the risk that the treasury would be captured, to disastrous effect, Ramaphosa said.

Grounded: Former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni on Tuesday accused the Zondo commission of being ever ready to ccused the Zondo commission of being ever ready to impugn former president Jacob Zuma. (Kevin Sutherland/The Times)

Myeni claims a conspiracy against her and Zuma

The former SAA chairperson said her closeness to the former president had caused people to unfairly implicate her in state capture matters

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Zondo says break-in will not intimidate commission

The deputy chief justice said it was not clear if the burglary and a recent shooting were more than criminality, but vowed no one would deter the inquiry

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

Zondo asks Constitutional Court to jail Zuma for two years for continued defiance

Zondo commission files urgent court papers asking that former president Jacob Zuma be imprisoned because his stance risks undermining the rule of law

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Eusebius McKaiser: Zuma’s recusal case is utterly unconvincing

The legal arguments put forward by the former president’s team are weak and inconsistent

Former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni.

Myeni chooses silence on SAA capture

The former SAA board chairperson invoked the privilege not to incriminate herself at the Zondo commission

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

.(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Locals don’t trust Westbury calm

A year ago, the suburb rose up against violence. Now, with more police on the streets, there are fewer gunshots and less crime

When asked on Monday why he had not applied to cross-examine Dukwana, Duduzane Zuma said he did not believe he is actually implicated in Dukwana’s statement. ?(Malcolm Sekgothe/M&G)

‘I don’t know him’ — Duduzane Zuma on Mxolisi Dukwana claims

The former president’s son denied ever attending a meeting with the former Free State MEC at the Guptas’ residence in Saxonwold

Duduzane Zuma said he would not have held a meeting at his private residence.(Malcolm Sekgothe/M&G)

Duduzane Zuma fields questions about Saxonwold meeting

The former president’s son was asked why a private meeting with Mcebisi Jonas was moved from a hotel in Rosebank to the Gupta residence

(Reuters)

Doors, chairs and what lies between

One might say that all the doors we pass through in our lives are ours. They belong to us, just because we passed through them, or we belong to them