The Eskom shenanigans that have dumped the country into load-shedding are ongoing, and consumers are likely to continue to suffer for the foreseeable future. In fact, stage five and six load shedding has not been ruled out – although Eskom ... Read More
Heading the list of eight identified in the PwC forensic report as being involved in fictitious and irregular transactions amounting to about €6.5bn is former Steinhoff CEO Marcus Jooste. Also included, according to the revelations by Steinhoff CEO Louis ... Read More
The state-owned enterprise (SOE) that won the option to acquire Optimum mine, formerly owned by the Gupta family, entered into the transaction without the knowledge of the Treasury or permission from the Energy Minister, says a Business Day report. Optimum ... Read More
Urgent draft amendments to regulations under the 2017 Financial Sector Regulation Act were released yesterday for comment by 27 March, reports Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. The revised regulations must be in place before the end of this financial year and ... Read More
Comment is sought by 14 April on draft coastal marine water quality guidelines for mariculture and the natural environment to replace those published in 1992, reports Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. They were last updated in 1995. According to the document’s ... Read More
The 2013 Co-operatives Amendment Act will come into effect on 1 April, according to a presidential proclamation gazetted yesterday. Its overarching objective is to improve accountability within co-operative enterprises and strengthen their governance, notes Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. With that ... Read More
Harry Gwala district municipality mayor and senior ANC KZN provincial leader Mluleki Ndobe and three other men have appeared in the Umzimkhulu Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of former ANC Youth League secretary-general Sindiso Magaqa. Ndobe – who ... Read More
Rob Packham, who is charged with the murder of his wife Gill, had expressed unhappiness about his marriage and had hoped to build a future with his mistress, the Western Cape High Court heard yesterday from a woman who had ... Read More
The Eastern Cape High Court (Grahamstown) has ruled that Kingswood College was not negligent when a fight between two teenage pupils in an unsupervised classroom resulted in a serious eye injury for one of them. A Daily Dispatch report says ... Read More
‘When drafting various corporate documents where individuals are shareholders, directors and employees, it is important to consider carefully the provisions in both the Shareholders Agreement and the Executive Employment Agreement. Understanding the rights as a shareholder against the roles, duties ... Read More
The negative attitude towards suicide, assisted suicide and euthanasia is difficult to understand and accept from a human rights perspective, especially if one considers the right of every person to inherent dignity forms one of the founding values on which ... Read More
Supreme Court Justice Jackton Ojwang has declined to appear before the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to respond to various allegations against him, including being bribed to deliver favourable rulings and being a partial arbitrator, The Nation reports. Sources said a ... Read More
Suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe, who is facing criminal abuse of office charges, will stand trial on 9 April in the Harare Regional Court. New Zimbabwe reports that Magistrate Lucy Mungwari said it was ‘ridiculous’ to have him tried by ... Read More
A Windhoek resident who has spent the past three years in prison after being found guilty of stock theft has been released after his sentence was set aside by the High Court. The Namibian reports that Judge Nate Ndauendapo said ... Read More
Oversight regulators have given their strongest indication yet that solicitors in England and Wales could face greater obligations to prove their ongoing competence, notes a Law Gazette report. The Legal Services Board confirmed in December that it would look at ... Read More
Decisions by two appeal judges to grant lighter sentences to men convicted of femicide have exposed deeply-rooted cultural stereotypes within the Italian judiciary system and wider society, says a report in The Guardian. In the first case, a judge in ... Read More
The Philippines has officially withdrawn from the International Criminal Court (ICC), becoming the second country to withdraw after Burundi, which left in 2017, notes a Jurist report. President Rodrigo Duterte announced the country was withdrawing from the court a year ... Read More
