Justice Raymond Mnyamezeli Mlungisi Zondo (Ray)

ANC chairman Gwede Mantashe from Eastern Cape is likely to play kingmaker despite being heavily criticised in the second volume of Justice Raymond Zondo's investigation into state capture...

Before Ramaphosa finally entered the fray on 17 January two South African ministers two veteran ANC heavyweights and Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo roundly condemned Sisulu's intervention and demanded a withdrawal and apology...

Active Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said Sisulu's accusations were the 'worst insult ever levelled against the judiciary in democratic South Africa'...

Then Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo handed the first tranche of the commission report into 'state capture' to President Cyril Ramaphosa on 4 January and it was published immediately...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned the African National Congress that a judicial commission headed by Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo – which enjoys the support of the President and the ANC – will portray the ANC government as 'corrupt and incompetent' in a long-awaited report...

South Africa's Commission of Inquiry into State Capture – known as the Zondo Commission after its head Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo – heard from the former CEO of South Africa's national electricity utility Brian Molefe in March...

The DA claims that both Twala-Tau and Majola received shares in Capitec a South African bank from Regiments Capital a company closely linked to the infamous Gupta family which is at the centre of the long-running 'state capture' hearings being chaired by acting chief justice Raymond Zondo (AC Vol 58 No 22 Snagged by the Guptas' global reach)...

In January several key witnesses at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture under the leadership of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo heard testimony from key witnesses regarding the creation of an unaccountable structure within 'special operations' (AC Vol 62 No 4 The captured spies & Vol 62 No 12 More time for the truth)...

He now starts a 15-month sentence for contempt of court after he failed to testify at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture chaired by Justice Raymond Zondo investigating the US$35 billion plunder of state resources during Zuma's presidency...

30 June: The State Capture Commission headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo winds up after hearing three years of testimony on corruption during Zuma's rule (AC Vol 62 No 12 More time for the truth)...

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's report on the Commission on State Capture promises to be the most important official document since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission catalogued atrocities under apartheid in a five-volume report published in 1998...

Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has presided over almost three years of sensational evidence exposing the extent depth and blatant nature of graft embezzlement kick-backs and looting of state funds (AC Vol 62 No 4 The captured spies & Vol 62 No 9 The battle over the bench)...