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  • Wed, 15 Jun 2005
    Mbeki fires deputy over corruption scandal
    South Africa -- President Thabo Mbeki yesterday fired his deputy president, Jacob Zuma, in a corruption scandal, delivering a pointed message to South Africans as well as foreign donors and investors that Africa must no longer tolerate graft.
  • Wed, 15 Jun 2005
    Mbeki dismisses deputy over corruption scandal
    South African President Thabo Mbeki has dismissed his deputy, who had been caught up in a corruption scandal.
  • Tue, 9 Jun 2009
    Battle to Halt Graft Scourge in Africa Ebbs
    The fight against corruption in Africa’s most pivotal nations is faltering as public agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and officials leading the charge have been dismissed, subjected to death threats and driven into exile.
  • Fri, 13 Mar 2009
    Shaik's R10m mansion offer
    Schabir Shaik offered R10 million to buy a house in Durban a week before he was released from hospital on early parole, the Mail & Guardian newspaper reported on Friday
  • Tue, 3 Mar 2009
    Opposition slams release of Schabir Shaik
    Opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the release of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik on medical parole.
  • Mon, 6 Jul 2009
    South Africa gets new crime squad
    South Africa's new serious crime squad has begun work six months after its FBI-style predecessor was disbanded amid claims of political bias.
  • Fri, 12 Jun 2009
    Bongo Successor Must Fight Corruption In Gabon - Annan
    Former U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan said Wednesday the successor to Gabon's late president Omar Bongo Ondimba must respect human rights and fight corruption.
  • Thu, 7 May 2009
    Gabon's Bongo temporarily stands down
    Africa's longest serving leader, President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, announced on Wednesday that he was "temporarily" suspending his duties to rest and mourn the death of his wife last month.
  • Tue, 17 Mar 2009
    'Thint's rights infringed'
    French arms company Thint on Monday filed papers in the Pietermaritzburg High Court arguing that the state should drop the corruption case against it because it was impossible for them to have a "fair trial".
  • Tue, 10 Mar 2009
    Waiting to Helm South Africa: President or Convict? Or Both?
    If all goes as expected, South Africa will soon be led by a president who is also the defendant in a criminal case, a man accused of fraud and racketeering, legally empowered to select officials who could either drop his prosecution or push it forward.
  • Sun, 25 Jan 2009
    Corruption in Africa: A cancer that won't go away
    Essay on impact that corruption has made on African development
  • Mon, 30 Mar 2009
    South Africa Prosecuting Authority Meets to Drop Graft Charges against ANC Leader Zuma
    The interim director of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is expected to hold discussions today reportedly considering dropping graft charges against the leader of the ruling African National Congress Party, Jacob Zuma.
  • Mon, 6 Apr 2009
    No forfeiture for ANC's Jacob Zuma; Presumptive president is cleared
    Prosecutors dropped criminal charges against African National Congress President Jacob Zuma on Monday, a move that seems to all but guarantee he will be elected to be South Africa's president when ballots are cast later this month.
  • Tue, 19 May 2009
    Zuma minister pressed on Mercedes
    South Africa's new Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele is coming under strong pressure to return a Mercedes Benz car he was given by contractors.
  • Tue, 19 May 2009
    Zuma minister sends back Mercedes
    South Africa's new Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele has returned a Mercedes Benz car he was given by contractors after coming under pressure to do so.
  • Sat, 14 Mar 2009
    RSA: ANC Leader Jacob Zuma Defends Financial Advisor Schabir Shaik's Parole
    Jacob Zuma, the ANC president, has lashed out at South Africans for wanting Schabir Shaik dead. Speaking exclusively to the Saturday Star yesterday, Zuma said he had been "deeply saddened" by the fact that many South Africans had made up their minds about Shaik's medical condition and concluded that Shaik was lying about being at death's door.
  • Sun, 6 Jan 2008
    How Schabir Shaik controlled Zuma
    CONVICTED fraudster Schabir Shaik ran almost every aspect of Jacob Zuma’s financial affairs for almost a decade.
  • Wed, 20 Sep 2006
    Zuma's corruption trial collapses
    Corruption charges against former South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma have been dismissed - boosting his chances of running for president.
  • Mon, 12 Jan 2009
    Court allows Zuma trial to resume
    A South African appeals court has ruled that the corruption case against ANC leader Jacob Zuma can continue.
  • Mon, 12 Jan 2009
    Zuma Faces New Charges After Ruling
    A South African appellate court ruled Monday that graft charges against Jacob Zuma, the leader of the governing party and likely to be the country’s next president, were wrongly dismissed by a judge last September, clearing the way for the criminal case to be reinstated.
  • Sat, 13 Sep 2008
    S. Africa's Zuma Is Victorious in Court
    South African judge dismissed corruption charges against ruling party leader Jacob Zuma on Friday, likely clearing the path for the former freedom fighter to become the nation's president next year.
  • Mon, 12 Jan 2009
    Jacob Zuma Corruption Charges Reinstated
    A South African appeals court has reversed a decision to dismiss corruption charges against the ANC leader, Jacob Zuma, months before an election he was widely expected to win.
  • Wed, 18 Mar 2009
    South Africa may drop graft charges against Zuma
    South African prosecutors were considering dropping corruption charges against ruling ANC leader Jacob Zuma after he lodged a legal request, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday.
  • Fri, 20 Mar 2009
    Jacob Zuma threatens Thabo Mbeki with corruption claim
    Jacob Zuma has threatened to implicate the former South African president Thabo Mbeki in corruption allegations over a multi-billion-pound arms deal, it has been claimed.
  • Wed, 18 Mar 2009
    Jacob Zuma case 'is under review'
    South African prosecutors are reportedly considering dropping charges against Jacob Zuma, the man widely tipped to be the next president.

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