In a stunning victory for the right to access to information and the persistence of South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper and yet another legal defeat for the South African authorities, a High Court judge has ordered the presidency to hand over a report into the 2002 Zimbabwe elections to the M&G - and confirmed that the report contained enough information to cast doubts on the legality of the elections.
The judgment comes after four years of legal battles by the M&G to get hold of the document, which contains the findings of South African Justices Sisi Khampepe and Dikgang Moseneke, who were sent to Zimbabwe by SA's then president Thabo Mbeki to observe the 2002 elections.
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