The wheels of justice are starting to turn a bit faster in South Africa, with former president Jacob Zuma and Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema both in the spotlight in connection with court action.
The first most people heard of VBS Mutual was when it emerged that the bank had given former president Jacob Zuma a loan.
Libyan authorities are reported to have asked the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to help recover the millions of dollars that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is rumoured to have taken out of his country before he was killed.
Did we really need a court to tell us that Zuma’s abused our money to pay his luxurious legal fees or that he unabashedly sought to worsen our and the entire SA Development Community’s position?
Simon Lincoln Reader draws comparisons between Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla apology and the Brexit ‘No Confidence’ vote. Both seemingly non-events.
This is another watershed day for a young democracy facing far too many of them of late. At 10am South African time, the Constitutional Court releases its most important judgement in almost two and a half years.
VBS Mutual Bank, one of South Africa’s smallest lenders, has been put into administration after it was unable to repay money owed to municipalities, according to the country’s central bank.
South Africa’s top court found that parliament failed to hold President Jacob Zuma to account for his role in a scandal involving the misuse of public funds on his private home and ordered it to draft rules governing the circumstances under which he could be removed from office.
What has happened is that the emperor has taken off his ANC garments and his real colours are showing. He is a sly and corrupt tribalist with a penchant for power and shady friends, writes Marius Oosthuizen.
President Jacob Zuma missed an opportunity to tackle the king of spontaneity on some of Donald Trump’s more insulting tweets.