Jacob Zuma

In 2017, Jacob Zuma made an announcement that there would be free education for students who cannot afford to pay their own fees.

While addressing the Sanco Human Rights Day event on Tuesday, Zuma said Sanco must fight for free higher education. The former president told the Sanco members that the provincial leaders would have to push government to deliver such services to the people. DURBAN - Former president Jacob Zuma said South Africa would not be a developed state unless it implements free tertiary education.

Former president Jacob Zuma was speaking at a Sanco event in Durban when he said SA would not develop unless the government made all tertiary education ...

The gathering was held in Umlazi, south of Durban and was Zuma’s first public address after he was elected Sanco KZN chairperson. He said the ANC has But Zuma doesn’t know what is quality and mediocre education." "Why didn't he implement it when he was president? We are not stupid." [government](https://briefly.co.za/tags/government/) to provide the youth with the best education South Africa has to offer.

Former president Jacob Zuma's advocate Dali Mpofu was adamant a letter from Zuma's military doctor did not contain any confidential medical information, ...

Jacob Zuma has accused Billy Downer of sanctioning the leaking of confidential medical information to Karyn Maughan, in breach of the NPA Act. They've both ...

• They’ve both brought applications to have the summonses they’ve been served, reviewed and set aside.

It would be “chaos and bizarre” if accused persons standing before judges in a criminal court could “pop next door” to a civil court to ask for their ...

This is one of the most egregious crimes. They had made inflammatory statements about Zuma and his private prosecution “not based on facts”. “This is no game we are dealing with here.

One of the biggest challenges the sitting judges may have in assessing whether Jacob Zuma's private prosecution of veteran prosecutor Billy Downer and ...

The premise upon which it is built that Maughan is a suspect is patently bad,” he said. Zuma’s legal team telling the court that Maughan had been questioned by the police was an attempt to “squeeze her into the suspect category”, said Budlender. “If that is the evidence on which Mr Zuma relies, his case is sunk, it’s finished. Said Budlender: “The Constitution doesn’t refer to civil courts, it doesn’t refer to criminal courts. He questioned why the matter was being heard by a Full Bench in a civil matter, when it should be heard in the criminal matter. His transcripts formed part of a trove of illegally intercepted phone calls that became known as the “Spy Tapes”. He said the NPA Act was clear that “no person shall without the permission of the National Director of Public Prosecutions, or a person authorised… It was a “clarification certificate”, he claimed. Breitenbach, however, has said in an affidavit that he sent the letter to Maughan without seeking Downer’s permission. Mpofu then read the transcripts from the illegal phone tap of Sole and Downer’s conversation dating back to 5 May 2008. Zuma claims that Downer’s legal colleague, advocate Andrew Breitenbach, sent the medical letter to Maughan on Downer’s instruction. Maughan contends that Zuma is attempting to stifle her ability to report on the Arms Deal trial and curb media freedom.

Advocate Thabani Masuku, for Zuma, has been delivering counter arguments in the former president's private prosecution matter. Zuma is accusing Advocate Billy ...

The perception that the court must be independent is very important and when it has friends assisting it who are antagonistic to one party the court ought to be careful how it receives those particular submissions,” says Masuku. “We are here to urge more condemnation on Mr Zuma’s private prosecution, you would have heard, amici, even choice of language in your title Mr Zuma. Zuma is accusing Advocate Billy Downer of leaking his confidential medical records, filed in his arms deal trial, to journalist Karyn Maughan.

Former president Jacob Zuma lambasted the government for privatising the country's state-owned enterprises, saying citizens should be vocal about their ...

[Mzansi](https://briefly.co.za/south-africa/) fed up with Jacob Zuma’s politickingsed anger over the privatisation of SOEs. He added that if the country’s leaders are unable to properly run the country, they should be removed. He encouraged attendees to not wait until the 2024 [TimesLIVE ](https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2022-10-23-zuma-blames-current-leaders-for-running-soes-to-the-ground-saa-is-gone-eskom-in-shambles/)previously reported that he blamed the current leadership for running SOEs in to the ground. [elections](https://briefly.co.za/politics/) to make their voices heard, according to [BusinessLIVE](https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2023-03-22-jacob-zuma-lambastes-government-for-privatisation-of-soes/). [Jacob Zuma](https://briefly.co.za/tags/jacob-zuma/) expressed anger over the privatisation of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), saying they belong to citizens.