Transnet was one of the worst-hit parastatals during the state capture era, but now there are fresh allegations of looting from two senior Transnet Port Terminals employees who accused senior executives of involvement in alleged procurement irregularities and collusion around ... Read More
Conflicts of interest surrounding the law firm chosen by the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) to investigate wrongdoing at poultry producer Daybreak Foods are not new, says Daily Maverick. The practice run by Pule Malahlela, which operated as Malahlela & Co ... Read More
Last month, Judge Brian Spilg, sitting in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), handed down a judgment scrutinising an application by Tigon-accused Gary Porritt for a postponement of the long-running criminal trial in which he and his co-accused, Susan Bennett, are ... Read More
Allegations have emerged in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) of suspicious ‘payments and accounting manoeuvres’ by Voltex, a leading electrical wholesaler and subsidiary of the JSE-listed Bidvest Group. It was further alleged that these payments may have been made to ... Read More
President Cyril Ramaphosa may have won on the legal front while losing the public relations battle over the section 89 panel report, Richard Calland, emeritus associate professor of public law at UCT, writes in Business Day. Calland recalls: 'Wim Trengove ... Read More
A court in the southern Mozambican province of Gaza found sufficient evidence to proceed with the trial of former senior officials from Xai-Xai district over the misappropriation of donations meant for victims of floods that struck the province this year ... Read More
The Consumers Association of Malawi (CAMA) attacked government plans to rent diesel generators through EGENCO and Power Market, branding the scheme a vehicle for siphoning public money rather than a fix for the country's electricity crisis, Nyasa Times reports ... Read More
The return of GH¢70 000 (about $6 000) by Deputy Minority Leader Patricia Appiagyei raised a wider question about who authorised the money paid to members of Ghana's Parliament in connection with the Appointments Committee, where it came from ... Read More
Ukraine's Prosecutor-General Ruslan Kravchenko resigned after investigators used ladders to raid his office over a corruption scandal threatening to embarrass Volodymyr Zelenskyy, The Guardian notes. Kravchenko quit after allegations that some of his officials took cash to protect call ... Read More
Police applied for an arrest warrant for independent lawmaker Kim Byung-kee, formerly of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), over corruption allegations involving his son after a year-long investigation, The Korea Times states. The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency's ... Read More
Sri Lanka's anti-graft agency arrested lawmaker Namal Rajapaksa, son of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, over a $2.3bn Airbus deal involving alleged multimillion-dollar kickbacks, Gujarat Samachar reports. The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) took the ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg)Riga v VoltexJudgment: 8 September 2026Keywords: Prescription – Prescription Act 68 of 1969 – meaning of 'debt' – debt distinguished from cause of action – amendment of particulars of claim – Protected Disclosures Act 26 of ... Read More
North West High Court (Mahikeng) Mopani Civils (Pty) Ltd v Lekwa Teemane Local Municipality Judgment: 4 September 2026 Keywords: Civil procedure – review – rule 53(1)(b) – production of record – original record – mootness – rule 30A ... Read More
Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) Durf Kapitaal (Pty) Ltd v Garage Propco Holdings (Pty) Ltd Judgment: 20 August 2026 Keywords: Company winding-up – Inability to pay debts – Jurisdiction – Effect of Ministerial re-determination of areas of main and local seats ... Read More
