Quote of the week
Senekal last week had nothing to do with solutions. It was all about politicians’ testosterone. It was all about politicians’ egos. What useful idea came out of all that heat and noise generated by all those politicians in Senekal last week? There is nothing. Nothing that makes SA a better place. Nothing that leads us to a better understanding of race relations in SA after 1994. Nothing that is a solution to farm murders – many of whose victims are poorly paid, desperate black people – or a solution to the incredibly horrendous murder and crime problem in this country.
Sunday Times Daily
The State proved that Thomson corruptly offered (the offer having been communicated to Shaik)
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to give a benefit
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which was not legally due
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to a person, being Zuma,
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who had been charged with duties, being the duties set out in s 96(2) of the Constitution
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by virtue of the holding of the office of Deputy President of the RSA
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with the intention to influence him
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to commit or to do an act in relation to such duty. – SCA judgment in S v Shaik
