In another day of high drama relating to the embattled Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (Idac), three senior investigators have been placed on suspension pending disciplinary action. And government has rejected calls to disband the unit, instead unveiling an extensive reform ... Read More

Deputy Minister of Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Seiso Mohai will lead the new board of the embattled Public Investment Corporation (PIC), Cabinet announced yesterday. News24 reports that Seiso is an ANC politician from the Free State, where he did a ... Read More

Complaints about the functioning of the Master of the High Court are not going away, says Deputy Justice Minister Andries Nel, despite the department’s turnaround strategy launched two years ago. Nel said both he and Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi were ... Read More

National Treasury and the SARS have published, for public comment, the 2026 draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill (2026 draft TLAB) and the 2026 draft Tax Administration Laws Amendment Bill (2026 draft TALAB). These draft tax Bills contain the tax proposals that were ... Read More

Cabinet has, among other things, approved the extension of the validity period of driving licences for Codes A, A1, B and EB from five to 10 years, reports Wyndham Hartley. It said in a statement that the 10-year renewal period ... Read More

SCA JP Fourie NO and Another v Master of the High Court, Mahikeng and Another Judgment: 29 July 2026 Keywords: Insolvency – winding-up – provisional liquidator – final liquidator – Insolvency Act 24 of 1936, s 18(4) – Companies ... Read More

North West High Court (Mahikeng) Dikupe v RAF Judgment: 29 July 2026 Keywords: Jurisdiction – territorial jurisdiction – Superior Courts Act 10 of 2013 – locus of the cause of action – Road Accident Fund – default judgment – retrospectivity ... Read More

Western Cape High Court Cirangashane and Others v DG Home Affairs and Another Judgment: 29 July 2026 Keywords: Birth registration – Constitution, s 28(1)(a) – Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 – Regulations on the Registration ... Read More

Advocate Siyabulela Mapoma, SC, who yesterday continued his cross-examination of the state’s key witness in former Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula’s corruption trial addressed an alleged R2m demand and a subsequent US$10 000 payment as he attempted to cast doubt ... Read More

As the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial enters another crucial phase, AfriForum says the evidence already before the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) points to a mastermind who orchestrated the late Bafana Bafana captain’s killing. The organisation believes that person should be ... Read More

The defence for one of the alleged hitmen on trial for a string of attempted murders alongside Vusimusi ‘Cat’ Matlala yesterday argued in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) that his client was told to comply or police would ‘blow his ... Read More

SA’s procurement system – estimated to be over R500bn each year – fails far too often. It’s slow, over-regulated, legalistic, risk-averse, corruptible and, all too frequently, incompetent, argues Ann Bernstein, executive director of the Centre for Development and Enterprise. ‘Contracts ... Read More

A recent parliamentary reply revealed over the past four financial years, approximately 99% of recorded firearm murders were committed with unlicensed firearms. More than 41 000 murders involved firearms that were already outside the legal system. Fewer than 400 involved ... Read More

The DRC’s Constitutional Court has approved a controversial referendum law that critics say could pave the way for President Félix Tshisekedi to seek a third term in office, reports africanews. In a ruling announced on state television, the court said ... Read More

Amnesty International this week called on Shell plc to answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta following their report detailing how Shell oil pollution has damaged water, farmland, fisheries, health and livelihoods, while the company continued to profit ... Read More

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye appeared to collapse in court on Wednesday during a trial in which he is facing treason charges, reports Business Day. Besigye (69), who has been detained without bail for several months, shouted the word ‘stop’ ... Read More

Dr Anthony Fauci refused to answer questions at a high-profile Senate committee hearing on the origins of Covid-19 and accused the Republican senator leading questioning of having an ‘unhinged obsession’ with him. A report in The Guardian notes that Fauci ... Read More

The father of British music sensation Amy Winehouse has been ordered to pay £950 000 to his late daughter’s friends, who he unsuccessfully sued for auctioning the singer’s clothes and other items. A report in The Guardian notes that Mitch ... Read More

A Singapore court has fined a French student S$600 ($466) for licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back into its dispenser. BBC News notes that Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien (19), pleaded guilty to ... Read More

* SA’s pop­u­la­tion growth rate is estim­ated to have held steady at 1.2% to 63.52m in the year to June, with Gauteng account­ing for 16.3m, or 25.7%, the largest share among all nine provinces. The data pub­lished ... Read More

* Thou­sands of pen­sion­ers in Buf­falo City will receive relief from the metro’s con­tro­ver­sial monthly basic elec­tri­city charge after it offi­cially rolled out a new tar­iff that exempts qual­i­fy­ing senior cit­izens from pay­ing the fixed fee. Nersa has approved BCM’S Pen­sion­ers ... Read More

* Weeks after South Africans rallied behind BMW Kempton Park security guard Teboho Kabayi, who was mocked and told he would ‘never own a BMW’, he is now the owner of one. Cybersecurity and integrated security firm ScaryByte confirmed that it ... Read More

* Newsday is the fastest-growing news publication in SA, with 1.3m active monthly readers and 3.5m page views. It was relaunched in June 2026, and it quickly gained traction. It reached 1m readers within the first month. Newsday now ... Read More

* The CEO of diversified holding company HCI (Hosken Consolidated Investments), Johnny Copelyn, says he plans to retire during the course of the group’s 2028 financial which runs from April 2028. He said he has advised the board of this intention ... Read More

* Data from Stats SA shows that people have left the Eastern Cape in droves over the past decade due to economic necessity. The latest migration estimates combine both inter-provincial migration between the nine provinces and net international migration into each ... Read More

* As Cape Town prepares for local government elections, the focus on crime and safety has been reignited, with the city’s expansive CCTV programme coming under scrutiny by critics and crime fighters who question its location, operations, and costs. But with ... Read More