The Stalingrad defence used by Jacob Zuma throughout the protracted Arms Deal matter continues to bear fruit, as more delays were announced in the fraud and corruption case against the former president in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday.
There is a new guide to litigation in South Africa titled ‘There is no limit to Stalingrad jurisprudence’. This work has been carefully compiled and tested in practice by at least three prominent litigants: former president Jacob Zuma, Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and Public Pro.
A UK court trial has revealed that the British government approved payments of up to £60 million to a future king of Saudi Arabia and the kingdom’s senior officials as part of a huge arms deal and then sought to conceal them.
Crispian Olver, executive director of SA's Presidential Climate Commission, tells Peter Bruce the commission is finalising a framework for a just transition, the first in a range of mountains it has to climb to get SA's economy off coal and into renewables.