11 August 2009
8550/09
[2009] ZAGPPHC 99
Pikoli v President and Others
Pikoli
heads to court - 3 August
Lawyers representing discharged National Prosecuting Authority
head Vusi Pikoli said his urgent interim application to stop a
successor being appointed will probably be heard on Thursday.
- Eye Witness News
website
Zuma
holds off on NPA boss - 6 August
President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday he will wait for the
court's decision on former NPA head Vusi Pikoli before deciding
on a new head for the group. Zuma said he had prioritised the
filling of the position. - News
24 website
Pikoli
believes application will be successful - 6 August
Fired NPA head Vusi Pikoli said on Thursday he believes he has
a prima facie case that his sacking was unlawful. His lawyers
are arguing for an urgent interim application to stop a new
National Director of Public Prosecutions being appointed until
Pikoli’s full application is heard. - Eye
Witness News website
Pikoli
has Zuma hamstrung - 7 August
President Jacob Zuma yesterday maintained that the appointment
of a permanent head of the National Prosecuting Authority was
a priority, but said he would wait for a ruling on a court
application by former NPA boss Vusi Pikoli intended to stop
him doing exactly that. - The
Times website
Pikoli
wants his job back - 7 August
A total of R9,8-million. That's what axed prosecuting head
Vusi Pikoli turned down when he decided to fight his
controversial suspension and dismissal. And, despite living on
"borrowed money" for eight months as he prepares to
take on President Jacob Zuma over his firing in the Pretoria
High Court, Pikoli is still adamant that he cannot be bought.
Pikoli was responding to suggestions from Zuma that, if the
former national director of public prosecutions (NDPP)
successfully challenge his suspension and dismissal by former
presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe respectively, he
could receive a damages payout instead of being reinstated to
his post. - IOL website
Do
not interfere, Zuma warns high court - 11 August
President Jacob Zuma has warned the Pretoria High Court not to
"interfere" in his plans to appoint a permanent
replacement for axed prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli. Zuma also
said that the court should not assume greater powers than it
has. High Court Judge Ben du Plessis is due this morning to
rule on Pikoli's urgent bid to stop Zuma from appointing his
replacement until the finalisation of his court challenge to
his suspension and dismissal by former presidents Thabo Mbeki
and Kgalema Motlanthe. - IOL
website
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12
August 2009
Text
of the Pikoli interdict against Zuma
Politicsweb
website
12
August 2009
Pikoli's
replying affidavit in interdict application
Politicsweb
website
Parties
hail Pikoli ruling : Zuma will abide by it - 11
August
President Jacob Zuma has said he accepts the judgment of
the court preventing him from appointing a successor to
Vusi Pikoli as director of public prosecutions, although
a statement from his office repeated his view otoday
that the appointment of a permanent head of the
prosecuting authority is critical to the country's
efforts to tackle crime. The presidency said it will
make further comment if necessary when it has studied
the judgment in detail. - Business
Day website
11
August 2009
The
Presidency responds to ruling in Pikoli application
BuaNews Online
website
Zuma
interdicted in Pikoli case - 11 August
Axed NPA boss Vusi Pikoli scored a significant victory on
Tuesday when the North Gauteng High Court interdicted
President Jacob Zuma from appointing a successor for Pikoli.
Pikoli, fired by Parliament earlier this year after then
president Kgalema Motlanthe recommended his sacking, is
fighting his removal from office which, according to him, was
ultimately motivated by protecting former police national
commissioner Jackie Selebi from prosecution. - Mail
& Guardian website
Pikoli
blocks Zuma in court - 12 August
Axed head of the National Prosecuting Authority Vusi Pikoli
scored a "victory for prosecutorial independence"
yesterday when he stopped President Jacob Zuma in his tracks
in his attempts to appoint Pikoli’s successor. - The
Times website
Pikoli
wants his old job back - 12 August
Axed prosecution boss Vusi Pikoli is determined to be
reinstated and is unwilling to accept a damages payout from
the government instead of being returned to office, according
to his attorney. Pikoli's attorney, Aslam Moosajee, said his
client was "delighted" after Judge Ben du Plessis
dismissed every argument used by President Jacob Zuma in the
Pretoria High Court to justify his mooted permanent
appointment of Pikoli's successor, interdicting the president
from making good on his plans until the High Court had ruled
on Pikoli's November 2009 challenge to his firing. - IOL
website
Pikoli
gears up for round three over NPA sacking - 12 August
Axed prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli will have three months
to prepare for his full application to be reinstated. - Eye
Witness News website
Pikoli
= 1 : President of the RSA = 0 - 13 August
It comes as no surprise that Vusi Pikoli won the first
round in his legal battle with the President of South
Africa when the North Gauteng High Court granted an
interim interdict prohibiting the President from
appointing a permanent National Director of Public
Prosecutions (NDPP) until such time as Pikoli’s case
had been dealt with. It was always going to be difficult
for the President to argue that he had a right to
appoint a new NDPP, despite the fact that Pikoli is
challenging the legality of his firing. So here, dear
readers, follows a little lesson in the law of interim
interdicts. - Pierre de Vos on the Constitutionally
Speaking blog
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See also : Zuma
holds off on NPA boss
Protector
mulls challenge to Oilgate ruling - 3 August
Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana is considering appealing against a high
court judgement setting aside his 2005 report on the so-called
"Oilgate" scandal, his office said on Monday. - Mail
& Guardian website
The
Public Protector in the dog box - 4 August
Last week Judge JNM Poswa delivered a damning judgment in the North
Gauteng High Court in which he set aside a "report" (well,
more like an excuse for a report, also called a "whitewash") by
the Public Protector into the so called Oilgate scandal. The
judgment bends over backward to be "fair and balanced" and not
to jump to conclusions about why the Public Protector failed so dismally
to adhere to its mandate and to do its job as required by the Constitution
and the law. However, after reading the full judgment it is impossible not
to be concerned by the behaviour of the Public Protector’s office in
this case. - Pierre de Vos on the Consitutionally
Speaking blog
Widow
breaks down as she relives crime ordeal - 4 August
The widow of a Welsh businessman on Tuesday relived seeing her husband
shot dead during a robbery at their Pretoria home last year. Ursula
Picton-Turbervill was testifying in the trial of Petro Markel and
Christovao Fresco Ndima. The pair, both from Mozambique, pleaded not
guilty to charges of murdering her husband Fred in Waterkloof Ridge in
January last year. Fred moved to South Africa in 2003. He died in a
Pretoria hospital shortly after being shot, without any provocation, in
front of his wife and children Samantha, 10, Bryony, 9, Natasha, 6, and
Gregory, 30. - IOL website
5 August 2009
Prosecuting
Authority seizes assets in fraud and theft case
SA Government Information website
MTN
boss in nuptial battle - 7 August
Were they ever married in terms of customary law or not? This was the
question the Pretoria High Court was confronted with this week when the
CEO of the State Theatre, Xoliswa Ngema, took her former lover, group
chief operations officer of MTN Sifiso Dabengwa, to court. Ngema claimed
that as Dabengwa had paid her family lobola of R20 000, they were indeed
married in terms of customary law. The couple has since separated and
Ngema is now asking for a decree of divorce as well as R35 000 in
maintenance a month. Ngema also stated that she was entitled to half of
his estate. - IOL website