BBC South Africa must investigate Zimbabwean officials over allegations they tortured opposition figures in 2007, a Pretoria high court has ruled. Under international law, South Africa has a duty to…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
FOX News PRETORIA, South Africa – A South African judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government committed human rights abuses against his rivals ahead…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
The Mail&Guardian Divisions within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) continued to widen in the North Gauteng High Court on Thursday with state prosecutor Chris Macadam accusing his colleague, Anton Ackermann,…
Staff Writer30 March 2012
IOL A Pretoria High Court judge questioned what recourse the victims of crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe had, if the South African police and the National Prosecuting Authority refused to…
Staff Writer29 March 2012
The Business Day CITING threats and intimidation from his colleagues, the head of the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Priority Crimes Litigation Unit, Anton Ackermann, has switched sides and come out…
Staff Writer27 March 2012
Daily Maverick Diplomatic relations between South Africa and Zimbabwe have been a far cry from what they were during the Thabo Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy”. A case currently being heard in…
Staff Writer27 March 2012
The Mail&Guardian Suspended prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane appears to be at the centre of an attempt to thwart the prosecution in South Africa of Zimbabwean government officials accused of torture.…
Staff Writer26 March 2012
The Mail& Guardian The authoritarian reaction of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to a judgment handed down by the SADC Tribunal in favour of dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers could blow…
Staff Writer16 March 2012
Business Day THE African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has made a preliminary ruling that it will hear a complaint about the effective suspension of the Southern African Development…
Staff Writer13 March 2012