What is it that “Silver Fox” Kessie Naidu told former justice minister Penuell Maduna and Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy about the “encrypted fax” detailing Jacob Zuma’s alleged bribe demand — but that neither will disclose?
Affidavits, filed by both sides in the court battle over when, if at all, the African National Congress deputy president’s corruption trial should start, detail extraordinary off-the-record negotiations between the state and French arms group Thales.
These negotiations resulted in the withdrawal of corruption charges against one of Thales’s local subsidiaries, Thint. Then prosecutions boss Bulelani Ngcuka had brought the charges against Thint as Schabir Shaik’s co-accused. The state, however, gained nothing but two short affidavits from former Thint director Alain ThÃ