Quote of the week
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.
The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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
