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Give us an answer, NPA

In the event of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) electing to drop all charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma and thereafter refusing to furnish the basis therefore, then the loss of credibility suffered by Correctional Services in terms of the Schabir Shaik medical parole and Carl Niehaus as a result of his outing as a […]

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Stand up and be counted

In May 2000 Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry of Pakistan was one of 12 supreme court judges who endorsed the military coup of former president general Pervez Musharraf. This was the start of a love-hate relationship between the two which would see Chaudhry, then chief justice, suspended by Musharraf during March 2007 and then reinstated during July […]

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Cosatu’s hate speech Constitution?

“Let me clarify one thing. I hate no Jew (for that matter a great admirer of Ronnie Kasrils, Steven Friedman and other millions of Jews who refuse to be silenced on the basis of their nationality by Zionists) and organised a march not to anyone’s neighbourhood, but to offices of an organisation that I considered […]