The State of SA’s Democratic Institutions

- By Shameela Seedat -
Media coverage leading up to next month’s national elections would leave many of us convinced of a dramatic plunge over the past few years in the level of public trust in South African democratic institutions.
Several significant events have led to such dwindling enthusiasm. These events include, to mention a few, [...]

A Quick Guide to the Jacob Zuma Matter

See this quick guide to the basics on the Jacob Zuma matter … why did the NPA bring charges? Why did they drop charges? Is this the end of the case? What legal precedents are being set and what is their significance?

Zuma – More Questions Than Answers

- By Judith February -
The charges against Jacob Zuma have been dropped and we are all being urged to ‘move on’.  It is now abundantly clear that what we have witnessed over the past 8 years has been the ANC’s inter-necine battles simmering underneath the genteel edifice of our Constitutional democracy. It makes a change [...]

Politics Trumps Justice? Zuma and the NPA

The piecemeal manner in which the NPA has chosen to deal with these issues has unfortunately left many questions unresolved and has also posed a raft of new questions. Foremost among these is whether we will ever definitively know Jacob Zuma’s guilt or innocence, and whether the NPA’s unpersuasive ‘policy’ rationale is indicative of another instance of inappropriate political pressure trumping purely legal considerations?