Suspended Deputy National Police Commissioner Lieutenant-General Shadrack Sibiya will face criminal investigations after the Madlanga Commission made recommendations in a report to President Cyril Ramaphosa, reports TimesLIVE. The Presidency released a statement yesterday on the commission’s recommendations, more than two ... Read More

The Department of Employment and Labour has moved to regulate the employment of foreign nationals and give the Minister powers to make regulations in respect of labour migration, reports EWN. Presenting the Employment Services Amendment Bill to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee ... Read More

SA’s largest clothing sector trade union is urgently seeking to have Independent Media’s majority shareholder liquidated as it tries to recover a R300m debt. The investment arm of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers’ Union (Sactwu) has asked the ... Read More

Parliament’s Employment & Labour Committee has been briefed by the Department of Employment & Labour on the Employment Services Amendment Bill, marking the formal introduction of the proposed legislation, reports Wyndham Hartley. The Bill proposes amendments to the Employment Services Act ... Read More

The National Minimum Wage Commission has invited written representations concerning possible adjustments to the national minimum wage, reports Wyndham Hartley. Gavin Hartford, the Acting Chairperson of the National Minimum Wage Commission, in a statement invited ‘all interested parties to submit written ... Read More

SCA Legal Practitioners Indemnity Insurance Fund v Johan Venter & Associates and Another Judgment: 3 July 2026 Keywords: Legal practitioners – Civil procedure ­‒ Threshold for reconsideration of refusal of petition for special leave to appeal – Attorney’s mistaken payment ... Read More

Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) Botha v Commission for Gender Equality Judgment: 5 August 2026 Keywords: Public office bearers distinguished from employees – Commissioners for Gender Equality not entitled to accrue leave – Remuneration and benefits of public office bearers must ... Read More

KZN High Court (Durban) McCarthy (Pty) Ltd t/a Bidvest Audi Centre Wonderboom v Naidoo Judgment: 4 August 2026 Keywords: Costs of withdrawn application – Discretion to depart from general principle that withdrawing party pays costs – Purchaser of new ... Read More

Eskom graft accused Michael Lomas has been handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to fraud, theft, and corruption charges linked to the R1.4bn upgrade of the Kusile Power Station, reports News24. Lomas (79) appeared in the Gauteng ... Read More

The state yesterday widened the alleged corruption network surrounding former Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, introducing evidence it says links three more people to the movement of cash that investigators believe ultimately benefitted her, reports News24. Chief financial investigator Wynand Wessels ... Read More

Ifeel Simango, who is charged with murder in connection with sextortion linked to the death of a boy in Switzerland, has abandoned his application for bail in the Protea Glen Magistrate’s Court, TimesLive reports. His defence advocate Maleaka Moshobane indicated ... Read More

It’s hard to imagine that the good idea of setting up Idac can survive the deluge of allegations against it. A solid case has recently been built for why this was a good idea turned bad, argues John Dludlu, a ... Read More

The Employment Services Act came into being in 2014. There have been suggestions to amend this legislation, and now with the advent of  xenophobic behaviour, the government is hell-bent on complicating issues, notes labour lawyer and DA MP Michael Bagraim ... Read More

The office of the DPP has approved charges against three top bank executives over allegations that they failed to report suspicious transactions linked to a Ksh363m ($2 805 905) fraud case. According to the Kenyans, the charge sheets show that ... Read More

More than 300 people abducted in separate attacks in Nigeria have been rescued, the Presidency says, in what it describes as its largest single-day operation by joint security forces, reports BBC News. The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake ... Read More

A key step in the DRC’s fragile peace process could finally be underway, as a long-delayed prisoner exchange between the government and the AFC/M23 rebel group edges closer, reports africanews. Fifteen men linked to the rebel movement have been ... Read More

An Israeli strike that killed Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil and injured her colleague Zeinab Faraj in April was a war crime, three rights organisations said yesterday. A report in The Guardian notes that investigations from Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty ... Read More

Administrators handling the fallout from the Axiom Ince collapse have launched a claim against the firm’s former accountants. A Law Gazette report notes that the Part Seven claim for professional negligence was filed with the Commercial Court this week by Axiom ... Read More

The ‘justice gap’ for personal injury victims in the UK is ‘dramatically widening’ and 2.3m people every year are increasingly unlikely to seek redress, a report has found. A report on the Legalfutures site notes that the Association of ... Read More

* Employees of the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) have opened a case of theft against a former board member for allegedly stealing laptops meant for under-resourced schools. The incident goes back to March, during an Eastern Cape donation drive ... Read More

* More than 30 people suspected of being in SA illegally were arrested in Pietermaritzburg yesterday. The operation was led by the SAPS and also involved the Msunduzi Municipality, the Department of Home Affairs, labour inspectors, and other law enforcement agencies ... Read More

* Police are investigating whether a possible drug overdose was the cause of the deaths of two Johannesburg teens whose bodies were found in a holiday home near the Mpumalanga town of Sabie on Monday. The bodies of Cameron Waldeck-Cooks from ... Read More

* Cape Town residents have been urged to renew or submit applications for social assistance before the end of August, with more than R8.3bn in support available for qualifying pensioners and indigent households in the 2026/27 financial year. Mayco ... Read More

* A new era of support for GBV survivors in Wentworth began yesterday with the launch of the SAPS Wentworth Rapid Response GBV Centre. Opened by Public Works & Infrastructure Deputy Minister Sihle Zikalala and KZN Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli, the dedicated space ... Read More

* When Aadielah Maker Diedericks talks about what shaped her work she recalls her childhood when inequality was something her family experienced daily. She was born in District Six before her family was forcibly removed to Mitchell's Plain. Those experiences ... Read More