The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) board, still dealing with the fallout from state capture, has become embroiled in another procurement scandal which as prompted Transport Minister Barbara Creecy to instruct an immediate independent forensic investigation, notes Legalbrief ... Read More
An explosive forensic report has unpacked a R1.2bn corruption scheme at Transnet Port Terminals in Richards Bay, naming senior executives in connection with alleged kickbacks, fraudulent procurement, and wasteful expenditure. News24 reports that the Fundudzi Forensic Services report was ... Read More
Khanyisile Casianna Gumede was sentenced to an effective 18 years' direct imprisonment for defrauding SARS of more than R3.7m through fraudulent VAT claims, The Citizen reports. She was convicted in the Durban Regional Court on five counts of fraud ... Read More
National Coloured Congress leader and MP Fadiel Adams has been suspended from Parliament under the Powers, Privileges & Immunities of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures Act, following allegations that his conduct brought the institution into disrepute, reports IoL. The suspension emerged ... Read More
Confidence in the SAPS and NPA to deliver on their mandate to investigate and prosecute criminal activity, including organised crime, is difficult to sustain, Anthony Norton, founder and managing director of Nortons Inc, argues in Daily Maverick. The almost daily ... Read More
Seven current and former senior Nakuru County officials in Kenya were charged with 19 counts of conflict of interest and procurement irregularities over contracts worth Sh120m ($930 000), Daily Nation notes. Appearing before the Nakuru Chief Magistrate alongside two private ... Read More
The Resource Centre for Human Rights and Civic Education (CHRICED) called for the immediate suspension of Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, over his alleged links to the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, Premium Times says. An ad ... Read More
Two Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) data capturer clerks, Tinotenda Maningi and Chrison Chipanda, were arrested by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) over a vehicle licensing scam involving more than $1m, Zim Live reports. ZACC spokesperson Simiso Mlevu said the pair ... Read More
UBS was fined a record $125m by the US Treasury over its failure to run adequate anti-money laundering controls despite being sanctioned for similar shortcomings in 2018, the Financial Times says. UBS Financial Services, the Swiss bank's US broker-dealer ... Read More
Peru's Constitutional Court overturned the 15-year jail sentence imposed on former President Ollanta Humala for corruption and declared the entire criminal proceedings against him null and void, the BBC says. Humala, who governed from 2011 to 2016, was convicted ... Read More
Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) opened a case against Apple for allegedly refusing to preinstall the state-backed messaging app Max and the domestic app store RuStore on its devices, the Moscow Times says. The FAS said it had warned ... Read More
Western Cape High Court Bassier v Moslem Cemetery Board Judgment: 4 August 2026 Keywords: Supervisory jurisdiction of court – Interlocutory application brought during implementation of prior judgment – Applicant seeking disclosure of respondent's bank statements to conduct independent forensic ... Read More
