The political parties are calling for judges to undergo lifestyle audits, citing accountability concerns, judicial overreach and the delayed Phala Phala judgment

Even the court’s own critics and annual reports acknowledge that prolonged delays erode public confidence, yet this matter now stands at more than four times the prescribed period

From parliament’s rejection of the Phala Phala report to the president’s signing of the NHI Act, the courts are again due to pronounce on consequential political acts

Unlike his predecessor, President Cyril Ramaphosa has no interest in compound interest

Judges ask the president’s and the National Assembly’s counsel if parliament threw the baby out with the bathwater

The stakes are high in the Economic Freedom Fighter’s (EFF’s) bid to compel the National Assembly to impeach President Cyril Ramaphosa on charges flowing from the theft of foreign currency concealed at his farm.

The president’s lawyers counter that the Economic Freedom Fighter’s Phala Phala case is rooted in politics, not law

The National Prosecuting Authority says Ramaphosa is off the Phala Phala hook

The coalitions that will soon take place will determine the course of South Africa for years to come

Cyril Ramaphosa’s counsel has countered that the case is stillborn because the National Assembly had a right to reject the findings of the Ngcobo panel

The ATM’s argument that she skirted this and other issues in the scandal had no merit, Gcaleka’s office has argued in court papers

The president maintains the opposition party was trying to fashion evidence that he flouted the executive ethics code by twisting his public statements on the subject

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Insiders say that the party’s campaign to retain KwaZulu-Natal would rely on Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma and Zweli Mkhize

The president remains vulnerable to the unanswered questions that continue to stalk him

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The ANC is unlikely to act against the two leaders despite calls by senior members for them to be disciplined

The South African Reserve Bank heard conflicting versions of the transactions – but accepted that of the president

The ANC embarked on a programme of renewal in 2017 after it emerged that it had been complicit in state capture.