When it comes to sexual promiscuity, former President Jacob Zuma raised the bar to dizzy heights. But Legalbrief reports that many other prominent political leaders have been forced to defend their extramarital activities, including his successor Cyril Ramaphosa who was ... Read More
Over the course of two days’ testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, Hawks investigator Kobus Roelofse has lifted the lid on a cauldron of corruption at the State Security Agency (SSA). Those implicated thus far as ... Read More
A computer server from investment company Trillian, holding more than 3m documents, has exposed where part of the vanished Gupta millions ended up. Business Day reports that it marks a breakthrough because it reveals the trail that was used to ... Read More
The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) slapped embattled Steinhoff International with a record R1.5bn fine yesterday for misrepresenting its finances to the market. Steinhoff will only need to pay R53m of the fine, with the FCSA noting the retailer ... Read More
Draft amendments to greenhouse gas emissions reporting regulations with significant implications for data providers were gazetted on Friday for comment within 30 days, reports Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. This is noting a proposal that the term ‘data provider’ ... Read More
Facts matter. And to determine whether allegations are credible it is necessary to engage with the facts, writes Pierre de Vos. Responding to the allegations of bribery against certain judges and NDPP Shamila Batohi which have been swirling on social ... Read More
Accountability Now’s Paul Hoffman SC believes the introduction of prescribed assets will not be able to pass constitutional muster now that SA is a constitutional state in which the provisions of the Constitution and the rule of law are supreme ... Read More
If Julius Malema is prosecuted over the Daily Maverick revelations about his alleged spending of funds looted from the VBS Mutual Bank, his lawyers are likely to turn the case into a political spectacle. And his choice of legal representation ... Read More
High Court Judge Happius Zhou has scrapped the 2% transaction tax which sparked an uproar from Zimbabweans after it was introduced by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube last year. The ruling follows a successful challenge by a pro-democracy activist Mfundo Mlilo ... Read More
The three people accused of having defrauded Namibia’s Ministry of Finance through a multimillion-dollar transaction in which the government bought Chinese-made security scanners at inflated prices in 2009 are calling for their acquittal. The Namibian reports that former Public Service ... Read More
A Namibian High Court judge has rejected an application by chartered accountant Hans Hashagen to halt disciplinary charges against him. Hashagen was charged for his role in ‘questionable’ forensic investigations that led to the firing of two parastatal bosses. The ... Read More
Police in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya have arrested more than 250 people suspected of carrying out large-scale online money-transfer scams. As previously reported in Legalbrief Today, the victims were tricked into wiring money to bank accounts controlled by fraudsters. The ... Read More
Drug-making giant Purdue Pharma has reportedly reached a tentative multi-billion dollar agreement in the US to settle a host of lawsuits against it. A BBC News report notes that the firm owned by the billionaire Sackler family is accused of ... Read More
An EU court is hearing appeals against a decision to order Ireland to recover £11.5bn of unpaid taxes from Apple. According to a BBC News report, in 2016, the European Commission found an agreement between Dublin and the technology ... Read More
* A lawyer with ‘no sense of shame’ and ‘no respect for the administration of justice... or this court’ has been suspended from practising pending a decision on his removal from the roll of attorneys. This was the ruling of Gauteng ... Read More
* Two companies linked to disgraced former KPMG partner Sipho Malaba face permanent closure after they failed to repay more than R28m in loans, vehicle finance and mortgages granted to them by the now defunct VBS Mutual Bank. Egrove Holdings and ... Read More
* The Gauteng Department of Health has instructed its lawyers to recover almost R500m from its former head of department, Dr Barney Selebano, and two other officials, for their alleged involvement in the illegal procurement of an IT tender in 2013 ... Read More
