After a week of acrimony, the new chairperson of Parliament's impeachment committee, Makashule Gana, appealed directly to President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before the Section 89 inquiry when the time came, saying it formed part of the weight of ... Read More
Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) voted eight to three to lay a criminal charge against former Road Accident Fund (RAF) CEO Collins Letsoalo for failing to appear before the committee in response to a summons issued in ... Read More
In a case about the transfer of R182m in bitcoin to overseas crypto exchanges, a Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) ruling holds big consequences for digital assets, reports News24. Judge Stuart Wilson found crypto is clearly subject to SA’s exchange control ... Read More
‘Systemic gaps in executive oversight’ under President Cyril Ramaphosa played a part in the ‘serious and multi-layered institutional crisis’ that has engulfed the criminal justice system, according to a report by evidence leaders of Parliament’s ad hoc committee. As revealed ... Read More
SA businesses face extortion from multiple directions, from criminal mafias demanding a cut of infrastructure contracts to state regulators withholding licences from firms without BEE certificates, John Endres, CEO of the SA Institute of Race Relations, argues in Business Day ... Read More
Switzerland's Ministry of Finance filed an appeal against a court ruling overturning a fine imposed on former Credit Suisse compliance director Lara Warner in connection with the Mozambique hidden debts scandal, 360 Mozambique reports. The Swiss Federal Criminal Court ... Read More
A network of timber and agribusiness companies with ties to Cameroon's ruling elite obtained logging concessions in the biodiversity-rich Ebo Forest, a report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime (GI-TOC) alleges, Mongabay reports. The report links Sextransbois ... Read More
Harare City Council finalised negotiations with its former town clerk, Hosiah Chisango, over his exit package following an acrimonious departure from the local authority, The Standard reports. Mayor Jacob Mafume confirmed Chisango's package is being processed but declined to ... Read More
A US jury found prominent short seller Andrew Left guilty of securities fraud, CNBC reports. Left, who runs Citron Research, was charged in July 2024 with manipulating the stock market and defrauding investors with misleading claims about his positions in ... Read More
Peter Murrell, former chief executive of the Scottish National Party and estranged husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, pleaded guilty to embezzling more than £400 000 from the party over 12 years, the BBC reports. Murrell used charge cards ... Read More
Joe Sanberg, co-founder of green investing firm Aspiration Partners, who attracted investments from tech billionaire Steve Ballmer to celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio and Cindy Crawford, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for a fraud prosecutors say cost victims $248m, the ... Read More
Constitutional Court Minister of Defence & Military Veterans and Another v Zeal Health Innovations (Pty) Ltd Judgment: 27 May 2026 Keywords: Constitutional Court on contract law – Services rendered under invalid procurement contract – Contractual rights preserved for period of ... Read More
SCA Gore v Moollajie NO and Others Judgment: 1 June 2026 Keywords: Insolvency – trustees’ remuneration – s 63(1) of the Insolvency Act 24 of 1936 – Tariff B – provisional trustees – final trustees – services rendered – ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Mangudhla and Another v SARB and Others Judgment: 1 June 2026 Keywords: Exchange control – cryptocurrency – Bitcoin – whether 'capital' or 'money' under Exchange Control Regulations, 1961 – Currency and Exchanges Act 9 of 1933 ... Read More
