Focus
Ex-DiData CEO admits secret stake in HQ sale
After years of denials, an ex-CEO of Dimension Data has admitted to secretly participating in the controversial sale of the group’s Bryanston headquarters – declared an illegal scheme by the High Court – and broken ranks with four other executives implicated in the deal ...
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South Africa
McKenzie's Ticketpro links cause uproar
The exact ownership of the empowerment group that bought Ticketpro from Blu Label Unlimited, a JSE-listed telecommunications group, remained unclear after a month-long investigation detailed the involvement in the deal of several women linked to Sport, Arts & Culture Minister ...
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Myeni's estate saddled with sequestration order
The estate of former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni has until 6 November to show why a provisional sequestration order against it should not be made final, The Citizen notes. The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) approached the KZN High ...
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Watchdog moves to scrap R6bn Premier-RFG merger
The Competition Commission asked the Competition Tribunal to revoke approval of the R6bn merger between JSE-listed Premier and RFG after what it called breaches of the conditions imposed on the deal, Business Day reports. The commission said four months after ...
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SIU free to sell Maumela's R11.1m Ferrari
Corrupt networks profit from city's collapse – CDE
State workers pocketed R266m in grants – AG
SIU helps set aside R25m dodgy contracts
Hawks arrest attorney over R20m RAF fraud
SAPS overpaid Stanfield firm for diesel
Idac shelves Phahlane's R191m case for now
SCA rebuffs NPA over split VBS trials
State claims R2m toward judge's home was a bribe
264 convictions for Home Affairs passport fraudster
Ex-Knysna mayor arrested over security contract kickbacks
R20 bribes cost border officials their jobs
Libyan-backed investor fights forced Legacy Hotels exit
Tribunal rejects Mabe's stalling bid over R27.6m tender
MKP demands Motsoaledi quit over R180m PR spend
Firm targets ANC election funds over unpaid debt
Ex-Eskom worker gets 10 years for R1.8m fraud
Report urges Cele's prosecution over alleged Matlala gifts
Court orders Cape Town to rehear tender appeal
Orlando Pirates chases missing R20.2m
Mkhwebane cleared of perjury over Absa report
Sasfin gets conditional nod for R201m Capitec deal
Scammers use AI to fake SARS messages
Sassa suspends 56 807 grants in three months
Probe into Cape Town sale of grant-bought land
Mpumalanga officials in court over R1.35m restitution funds
Carrim vows to axe RAF graft at every level
Agency hunts R48m over Springbok ticket fiasco
Analysis
Tackling SA's deeply-embedded rule of law crisis
The conduct of some witnesses before the Madlanga Commission points to a problem in SA deeper than criminals breaking the law, with growing evidence of many people who know no way of living other than through crime, Jabulani Sikhakhane, editor ...
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Rest of Africa
Malawi arrests ex-army chief over arms trafficking
Malawi's Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) arrested former army chief General Paul Valentino Phiri on allegations including dealing in property linked to 'terrorism', TRT Afrika reports. The arrest came months after the allegations surfaced. The ACB said the charges arose from ...
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Kenyan weighbridge officer nabbed in bribe sting
Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) arrested a police officer attached to the Kenya National Highways Authority at the Isinya Weighbridge over allegations that he demanded and received a Sh60 000 ($464) bribe from a motorist, Capital FM reports ...
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Sirleaf admits Liberia lost its corruption fight
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf admitted her administration failed to defeat corruption despite introducing several governance and transparency reforms during her 12 years in office, the New Dawn writes. Speaking at a Governance Commission symposium marking Good Governance Month ...
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Nigeria's 11-year Suswam graft trial stalls again
World
Sri Lanka arrests former First Lady over donations
Sri Lanka's former First Lady, Shiranthi Rajapaksa, was arrested over allegations a charity linked to her misused donations raised for a children's hospital, the BBC writes. Anti-corruption authorities arrested the 73-year-old wife of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at ...
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Netanyahu fined over corrupt campaign tactics
Israel's Central Elections Committee ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for a second time, to pay legal costs and remove a video from his personal social media accounts after ruling that footage filmed at a military base amounted to election ...
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Ex-CIA gold bar hoarder admits $193m fraud
A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer accused of stashing hundreds of gold bars in his home admitted in court to a far larger web of deception, including a $145m luxury real estate scam and passing sensitive intelligence to a ...
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Ex-Vitol trader jailed for Ecuador, Mexico bribes
Briefs
Sygnia's R600m executive share plan draws fire
* Investment company Sygnia, founded by Magda Wierzycka, faced a governance storm over a plan to issue about R600m in new shares to executives at a cost of 1c each, possibly without performance conditions or targets. The plan posed the most ...
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Case Law Briefs
UIF v PIC (Agency dispute)
KZN High Court (Durban)
UIF v Public Investment Corporation & 24 Others
Judgment: 30 September 2026
Keywords: UIF seeking leave to appeal – Self-created urgency – UIF legally represented and participated – Provisional liquidation – Agency dispute
Summary: The UIF, a ...
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Senekal v Standard Bank (Insolvency)
SCA
FJ Senekal Inc v Standard Bank
Judgment: 5 October 2026
Keywords: Insolvency – Insolvency Act, s 63(2) – trustee remuneration – fellow director of trustee – incorporated law practice – cession – liquidation and distribution account – s ...
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Modibedi v Nedbank (Credit law)
Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg)
Modibedi and Another v Nedbank Limited & Others
Judgment: 1 October 2026
Keywords: Credit law – Bank ignored consumer's response proposing restructured payment plan and sought executability of residential property – Credit provider's duty ...
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Ilcor Engineering v Crossmoor (Contract, payment conditions)
Habib Overseas Bank v Crestar (Insolvency, suretyship)
Bergstan Consulting v City of Cape Town (Tender)
Shifa Picton Apartments v Beachmaster Investments (Contract)