In an unprecedented turn of events, former president Jacob Zuma was arrested after the Constitutional Court ruled he was in contempt of court for failing to appear in front of the Zondo Commission. James de Villiers compiled a list of our nine best pieces of the past year explaining how Zuma ended up in jail.
26 November 2020 - Zuma vs Zondo: Adverse findings can be made against Zuma without his testimony
Lawson Naidoo argues the current stand-off between Jacob Zuma and Raymond Zondo may have been avoided had the former president been called earlier to testify at the state capture commission.
26 November 2020 - Zuma vs Zondo: The battle for the soul of the Constitution
There are political circumstances surrounding the enactment of our Constitution which have, in part, led us to the situation we now face in the matter between Jacob Zuma and Raymond Zondo, writes Nicole Fritz.
Jacob Zuma is no longer in the party's leadership, but the ANC remains comfortably numb and pitifully docile when Zuma wages war against South Africa, its institutions and its people, writes Pieter du Toit.
4 February 2021 - Zuma's psycho-political gambit a step too far to tolerate
Jacob Zuma's latest gambit shows he clearly believes he will shake not only the custodians of the South African legal and political order, but also force his "enemies" to capitulate, writes Ongama Mtimka.
4 February 2021 - Sobukwe or PW Botha? Zuma’s unseemly efforts to defend his attack on rule of law
Jacob Zuma has demonstrated, by trying to argue that the Constitutional Court order that he appear before the State Capture Inquiry is an anti-democratic ruling, that he either doesn't understand the rule of law, or chooses not to, writes Karyn Maughan.
4 February 2021 - A breakdown of Zuma's statement: Relentlessly stubborn, defiant - but no Sobukwe
In a statement issued, former president Jacob Zuma was adamant that he would defy a Constitutional Court judgment compelling him to appear before the Zondo Commission looking into state capture. Mpumelelo Mkhabela analyses the main points Zuma makes.
16 February 2021 - A divided ANC results in no decisiveness on Zuma matter
Ralph Mathekga questions why the ANC is unable to have a clear position on such a straightforward issue as Jacob Zuma's defiance of a court order.
27 May 2021 - From Polokwane to Pietermaritzburg: Zuma's long march comes to its pitiful end
When Zuma became leader of the ANC in December 2007 in Polokwane, his wave was starting to crest. But as Pieter du Toit writes, 14 years later, his project has come to an end in a non-descript court in a dry Pietermaritzburg.
2 July 2021 - ConCourt Zuma judgment a 'courageous act' of judicial independence
The judgment underlies the importance of strong institutions in a constitutional democracy, writes Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution's (CASAC) Lawson Naidoo and Dan Mafora.
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