Deep Read: Commission Impossible
After the Hefer, Ginwala, Donen or Ngoepe inquiries, any hope of the Farlam Commission getting to the bottom of the Marikana tragedy is naive at best.
Hefer Commission
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The Editorial: Arms-deal players put on terms
What’s wrong with President Jacob Zuma? He keeps doing the right thing!
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Mbeki suspends prosecutions chief
President Thabo Mbeki has suspended Vusi Pikoli, the National Director of Public Prosecutions, it was announced on Monday. Mokotedi Mpshe was named as acting director. The move to suspend Pikoli — met with shock and disbelief by opposition political parties — comes amid a bitter turf war between the police and the Scorpions that has escalated to Cabinet level.
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High stakes in Hefer sequel
Bulelani Ngcuka makes a public apology for ”losing his cool” but refuses to apologise to Lawrence Mushwana personally: Ferial Haffajee, Sam Sole …
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‘The battle is not over’
Now that the Hefer probe is over, the focus shifts to the president’s dilemma over what to do about his deputy.
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Ngcuka vs Zuma: Inside the spy wars
A new twist in the Ngcuka-Zuma saga highlights the battle lines in a bitter information war that has drawn in spooks past and present.
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Shooting fish in a barrel
Last Monday should have been formally named ”National Corruption Day” or perhaps, better, ”Corruption Awareness Day” — which has the advantage of an appealingly apt acronym. But Monday’s haul represented not so much a few bites as a trawler load.
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Shaik: It ended in tears
Mo Shaik on Thursday told the Hefer commission that he would be happy to concede he had been wrong about Bulelani Ngcuka, as long as he could be shown to be wrong.
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Mac and Mo are down but not out
At the end of his testimony this week Maharaj told the Mail & Guardian that he had overwhelming grassroots support in the ANC.
It all went horribly wrong
Mac Maharaj tragically pawned his legacy as a leader of the struggle.
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The tragic fall of an icon
This week Maharaj again cut a tragic figure, but for a very different reason. There he was, on the witness stand at the Hefer commission, bumbling his way through what he must have known was nonsensical testimony. It was inevitable that under relentless cross-examination by the country’s top lawyers, he would wilt.
