Who Goes From President to Prisoner?
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By Matthew Blackman, Nick Dall and Charu Sudan Kasturi
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March2, 2021
Flamboyant French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy always loved “to be at the center of the action,” former U.S. President Barack Obama wrote in his memoir
A Promised Land. For once, Sarkozy won’t be happy to find himself in the spotlight, after a court sentenced him to jail on Monday for trying to bribe a judge in 2014. While Sarkozy will appeal the ruling and can remain free in the meantime though he will return to court this month on separate charges of evading campaign finance laws the verdict is a jolt to those leaders who think they’re above the law. Today’s Daily Dose explores how corruption charges are catching up with multiple world leaders even as the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up fresh opportunities to cheat taxpayers. Read about the deep ties between war and corruption, meet unheralded heroes and understand why this battle is as
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In the social media era, the Zondo Commission of Inquiry repeatedly and regularly trends on Twitter, Google and Facebook. In 2020, even as Covid-19 forced its hearings into the virtual rather than in the real world, the commission commanded national attention from January all the way to December.
Judge Raymond Zondo, who chairs the commission and is the country’s Deputy Chief Justice, is now one of South Africa’s most recognisable members of the judiciary. “Zondo” has become a byword for klapping back and the livestreaming of its hearings has made it a kind of national telenovela of the kleptocracy South Africa has become.
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The Democratic Alliance in the Free Stateâs High Court bid to turn the wheels of justice in the favour of the 80 Vrede Dairy beneficiaries is yet to sit â with no official date set for proceedings.
In October 2020 the party in the province led by Roy Jankielsohn, launched their application with the Bloemfontein High Court, in an effort to compel the Free State Development Corporation (FDC) and Provincial Agriculture Department to recognise, verify and appoint the beneficiaries who despite having a 51% stake in the project have still not seen a cent of the money that has been pumped into the project by the department.