The repercussions of state capture featured prominently in Parliament yesterday (Wednesday) when an ANC MP made a bid for the Deputy Public Protector position, while NDPP Shamila Batohi once again warned that the country could not prosecute its way out ... Read More
A Legal Practice Council (LPC) disciplinary committee has acquitted a lawyer – who only paid R50 000 of a R15m medical negligence settlement to a severely disabled child's trust account – of misappropriating those funds, according to News24. The ... Read More
Discovery Life is seeking to recover R16m it paid to a KZN man after he allegedly became totally and permanently unable to perform his nominated occupation as an accountant as a result of suffering from depression from 2016 onwards, reports ... Read More
The State Attorney has slammed former President Jacob Zuma for suggesting – without any basis – his corruption trial’s late Advocate Kemp J Kemp SC was liable for the R28.9m legal bill its officials have been ordered to recover ... Read More
A challenge in SA's retirement savings landscape is the disparity in tax benefits for different income levels, write Ada Jansen, Wynnona Steyn and Winile Ngobeni in a BusinessLIVE analysis. Referring to their discussions in a Southern Africa Towards Inclusive ... Read More
Petrol production at Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote’s $20bn state-of-the-art oil refinery ought to be some of the best business news Nigeria has had in years, reports BBC News. But that might partly depend on the behaviour of what Dangote ... Read More
An Australian goldmining company has agreed to pay $160m to Mali’s Government after the west African country’s junta detained its chief executive and two other employees, reports The Guardian. Resolute Mining’s chief executive, Terence Holohan, and the other two employees ... Read More
President Duma Boko has promised zero tolerance for graft in his administration. The pledge comes after anti-corruption protests and calls for the government to prosecute former officials accused of looting public funds. Voice of America reports that activist Setlhomo Tshwanelang ... Read More
Gautam Adani, the chair of Indian conglomerate Adani Group and one of the world’s richest people, was indicted in New York over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, the US Department of Justice said yesterday. According to BusinessLIVE, authorities charged Adani ... Read More
New York prosecutors say they are opposed to dismissing US President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money case but have expressed openness to delaying his sentencing until after his second term, according to Al Jazeera. In a court filing on Tuesday, the ... Read More
The man picked to be the next top US law enforcement officer, Matt Gaetz, is at the centre of a number of allegations which could prevent him from getting the job, reports BBC News. The Florida lawmaker is the subject ... Read More
