A former ANC MP and Deputy Minister dodged a question about what she did to prevent state capture during her interview as a candidate for Deputy Public Protector (PP). Chana Pilane-Majake was among the candidates interviewed by the Portfolio Committee ... Read More

Financial investigators trained by the NPA and earning R350 000 a year are being lured away by the private sector and other state entities offering higher pay, prosecutions head Shamila Batohi has warned. Legalbrief reports that Batohi again defended the ... Read More

A remodelled Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for electricity will be released to the public next week and is expected to deviate materially from the heavily criticised draft IRP2023, says a Polity report. Electricity & Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said ... Read More

North West High Court: Tielman Kotze v Oosthuizen and another Judgment: 13 November 2024 Keywords: Pie Act compliance – Interim eviction order Summary: DTL Boerdery was the owner of Farm May. On final liquidation of DTL, it sold the farm ... Read More

An investigation into the links between the Terrible West Siders gang and alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack created the matrix for the formation of the mammoth underworld trial taking place in the Western Cape High Court. A Cape Argus report ... Read More

Ayanda Vellem has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Cape Town Regional Court for trafficking in persons for sexual purposes. A TimesLIVE report notes that the woman he coerced into marriage, now 28, told the court in her victim ... Read More

Siyabulela Stana (37) – convicted of a violent crime spree in and around Gqeberha in May last year – has been sentenced in the Eastern Cape High Court (Gqeberha) to an effective 25 years behind bars. The Herald reports Stana ... Read More

The implementation of Operation Vala Umgodi (‘close the pit’) represents the culmination of Mineral & Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe’s grand plan to sidestep responsibility and push Police Minister Senzo Mchunu and the government under the bus, leaving Mantashe scot-free ... Read More

Human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge was detained in 1966 for 190 days and later convicted under the Suppression of Communism Act because of his ANC activism. He was sent to Robben Island to serve a term of two years. After ... Read More

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) has seen its share price drop 13% since late October as the company faces a $195m anti-compete claim in Tanzania. The firm has lost nearly a third of its value since July, with the latest drop ... Read More

Namibia’s former Attorney-General and Justice Minister Sacky Shanghala says he and three other accused in the Fishrot case should have a separate trial because they are currently without legal representation. Shanghala argued in the Nambia High Court at the Windhoek ... Read More

President Duma Boko has promised zero tolerance for graft in his administration. The pledge comes after anti-corruption protests and calls for the government to prosecute former officials accused of looting public funds. Voice of America reports that activist Setlhomo Tshwanelang ... Read More

Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media mogul and pro-democracy figure, took the stand this week for the first time in court since his arrest nearly four years ago, saying his newspaper represented the freedoms that people in the city valued ... Read More

The jury in the Conor McGregor trial have been told it does not matter if they ‘loathe’ him. According to a BBC News report, Remy Farrell SC, representing the Irish mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, began his closing argument at ... Read More

The 70-year-old legislation giving business tenants the right to renew their tenancies when they expire is coming under scrutiny by the Law Commission. A Law Gazette report notes that in a consultation paper published this week, the commission seeks views ... Read More

* An alleged hitman linked to the murder of a prominent KZN businessman made a brief appearance in court yesterday. Halalisani Nchunu was arrested by a police task team which had been deployed to investigate the theft of minerals as well ... Read More

* Security services at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital will total over R70m per year for the next three years. A three-year contract was signed at the beginning of this financial year, with the cost of the deal revealed in the Gauteng ... Read More

* Darren Kershaw (41) has been sentenced in the Western Cape High Court to life imprisonment, plus three years for arson, for torching his girlfriend Yeshnee Kuni to death in August 2017. Read More

* A trial date has finally been set in the Bellville Specialised Commercial Crimes Court for the R2.5m tender fraud case involving slain City of Cape Town staffer, Alistair Stanbull and construction bosses. Months after the death of Stanbull, it ... Read More

* The family of a girl (14) had to listen to the details of her kidnapping and rape. This, as Burundian nationals Isaac Murishi, Paul Bucumi and David Ndayisasa appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court, charged with kidnapping, robbery with aggravating ... Read More