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Zuma welcomes former EFF chair Dali Mpofu to MK Party

Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party leader, former President Jacob Zuma, has welcomed Advocate Dali Mpofu, former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) chairperson, to his party. In a letter, Zuma lauded Mpofu for the role he played in fighting internal and external attempts to destabilise the 11-month party at its formative stages. Mpofu announced his departure from the EFF during an exclusive interview with the SABC on Thursday, revealing that he was involved […]

9 November 2024

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Zuma will be the face of MK party ahead of 2024 polls: Khanyile

One of the leaders of the uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK) Party, Bonginkosi Khanyile, has told supporters that the former president Jacob Zuma will be the face of the party ahead of the 2024 general elections. Last month, Zuma endorsed the party and said that he would vote for it. He said he would not be available to campaign for the African National Congress (ANC). The ANC has not yet specified what action, […]

21 January 2024

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ConCourt refuses Zuma’s urgent appeal of high court interdict halting Ramaphosa’s private prosecution

The Constitutional Court has, in a three-line order, refused a bid by former president Jacob Zuma to appeal against the high court interim interdict that halted his private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa. The apex court said on Thursday it had considered the application for a direct appeal and “concluded no case has been made for a direct appeal”. The former president was seeking to appeal against an interim interdict […]

11 August 2023

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Final arguments in Zuma, Ramaphosa legal battle

The High Court in Johannesburg is on Thursday expected to hear the final arguments in President Cyril Ramaphosa’s challenge of his predecessor Jacob Zuma’s private prosecution bid against him. Ramaphosa has argued that Zuma’s legal bid is unlawful as the formal notices that the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) has issued do not relate to him. Ramaphosa is asking the court to declare the summons that Zuma has issued as unlawful […]

18 May 2023

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Zuma vs Ramaphosa heads to the ConCourt

The JGZ Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi has confirmed that former president Jacob Zuma has turned to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal the judgment which saw President Cyril Ramaphosa obtain an interim interdict in January. A full bench of the High Court in Johannesburg granted the interdict pending the outcome of Ramaphosa’s challenge to the private prosecution bid against him scheduled to be heard in May. Zuma launched the […]

8 February 2023

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SCA made clear the conditions of medical parole: Expert

Parole expert Julian Knight says the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has made clear the conditions under which a prisoner should be released on medical parole. On Monday, the SCA upheld a High Court order which declared former President Jacob Zuma’s release on medical parole irrational, unlawful and unconstitutional. The SCA also ruled that Zuma must return to the Estcourt Correctional Centre because he did not lawfully complete his sentence. Knight […]

22 November 2022

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SCA dismisses Zuma’s medical parole appeal

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein dismissed former President Jacob Zuma’s medical parole appeal. Zuma and the Correctional Services Department challenged the High Court order which declared his release on medical parole irrational, unlawful and unconstitutional. The Democratic Alliance (DA) earlier submitted in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) that the former Correctional Services Commissioner, Arthur Fraser, erred in believing that he was entitled to release Zuma on medical […]

21 November 2022

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Zuma makes himself available for ANC chair & endorses Dlamini-Zuma for president

LOCAL Former ANC president Jacob Zuma says he is available for election as ANC national chairperson at the party's December conference. In a statement released shortly before midnight on Monday, Zuma also threw his weight behind his former wife and current ANC NEC member Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (NDZ) as his preferred person to contest again for the governing party's top position. Dlamini-Zuma lost a close contest to incumbent Cyril Ramaphosa at […]

27 September 2022

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CASAC calls for Zuma’s medical parole conditions to be made public

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC) has called on the Department of Correctional Services to make public the medical parole conditions that have been imposed on former President Jacob Zuma. This comes after Zuma was granted medical parole due to ill-health. He was hospitalised a month after his incarceration on July 8. Zuma is serving a 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court after ignoring […]

6 September 2021

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