1. Today’s Mail & Guardian has an interesting insight into what’s going on behind closed doors at the National Prosecuting Authority regarding ANC president Jacob Zuma’s case. His legal team told the NPA at the meeting this week they should drop the corruption charges because of two new pieces of evidence.
No further details were released, but the Mail & Guardian has established that the two principal strands of evidence put before Mpshe concern:
* Mbeki’s role in the 1999 arms deal and new details of his alleged involvement in impropriety in the awarding of contracts for new defence equipment.
* Claims that Mbeki influenced the Scorpions’ controversial “Special Browse Mole” report, which raised concerns about funding and support for Zuma from Libya and Angola as well as the possibility of violent resistance to his prosecution.
2. The Times is reporting that Zuma’s legal team has pinned its hopes on potentially embarrassing tapes of Scorpions investigators allegedly discussing the case against him with former National Prosecuting Authority boss Bulelani Ngcuka. Click here.
3. And IOL’s got a good story on Willem’s Heath powerful role as deal maker in all of this. Read it here.
4. Here’s a cool little story at the Daily Dispatch about how a brewing mistake and a chance online meeting has led to a Grahamstown meadery (yup, that stuff Robin Hood and his Merry Men used to drink) earning it a world-wide reputation as a leader in mead technology. Read it here.
5. And it’s looking up at the oval. We bowled the Ozzies out for 209 yesterday and we’re going into the second day of the Cape Town cricket Test 57 without loss. Although we’ve already lost the Test series (it’s the best of three) we might at least end it with a modicum of respectability.
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