The alleged crimes relate to an arms procurement deal in the 1990s before he became president.

The French arms company Thales has also filed papers  seeking to have dropped the  charges its is  facing for allegedly paying bribes to Zuma.

The National Prosecution authority’s confirmed that applications have been received from former President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thales.

Zuma’s due to appear in the High Court in east coast city of Durban on November 30 for a hearing in this case.

He has maintained his innocence throughout.

The alleged offenses occurred while he was provincial economy minister in KwaZulu/Natal and later Deputy President

Thales submits that the decision in 2009 to drop the charges was neither set aside nor challenged by the State.

By reintroducing the charges now, the prosecution is not following its own protocols and the unreasonable delay in dealing with the matter makes a fair trial impossible.

A separate judicial inquiry into alleged state corruption while Zuma was president is currently hearing evidence in `Johannesburg

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Davison, 57, who was arrested yesterday (Wednesday) has indicated to  the Cape Town court, through his lawyer, that he intends pleading not guilty.

The State did not oppose bail of 1,170 euros for Davison who came to prominence in 2011 after assisting his mother’s death in New Zealand by giving her morphine.

He served a five-month period of house arrest in New Zealand.

Davison, who founded Dignity SA, is charged with the murder of paraplegic Dr Anrich Burger in Sea Point five years ago.

He is due back in court on November 16.

Prosecutor Megan Blow told the court new information had come to light indicating that  Davison has committed other similar offenses of assisted suicides.

Dignity SA co-founder Willem Landman said serious crimes squad detectives had searched Davison house and seized is laptop and mobile phone.

Euthenasia is illegal in South Africa.

Two years ago the state appealed a High Court ruling granting a man the right to a medically assisted death.

The Appeal Court overturned that judgment that could have opened the way to assisted suicides.

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Parliament  and the court in Nairobi have issued conflicting versions of what should happen next.

A Kenya’s High Court’s ruled that Ekuru Aukot, who placed third in August’s overturned presidential election, can contest the re-run.

But Aukot’s expressed his doubts about standing.

Parliament’s passed an amendment to Kenya’s

election laws, saying that if one candidate withdraws from a repeat presidential election, the other one will automatically win.

Opposition lawmakers boycotted the vote on the measure that’s  awaiting President Uhuru Kenyatta’s signature to take effect.

Raila Odinga’s supporters have begun demonstrations calling for electoral reform.

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South African authorities have set a May 18 court day in the High Court of the windy city to hear a petition by the Western Sahara ruling party for the return of the 55 000 tonne cargo.

The maritime world is somewhat aghast at the drama playing out in Port Elizabeth.

Publications serving the industry refer to what they call an obscure decades old dispute involving the desert country illegally occupied by Morocco.

Polisario Front, ruling the Western Sahara .says the phosphates were stolen by the occupiers and shipped for sale in New Zealand.

The Port Elizabeth High Court will hear that the European Court of Justice has expressly found that the Western Sahara and its riches do not belong to Morocco.

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Highly placed South African sources are aware there will be consequences if Omar Al Bashir defies a court order by leaving.
But they say the ramifications of having to arrest the Sudanese President, if indeed the court rules this way, are far greater.
The degree to which Al Bashir surprised his African peers by arriving here was illustrated at lunch after today’s closed session where no place had been set for him.
He left with his entourage but returned to be welcomed by name by AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma.

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