A legal showdown appears likely over Parliament’s decision not to summons President Cyril Ramapohosa to testify at the inquiry into suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s fitness for office, observes Legalbrief. Her counsel, Advocate Dali Mpofu SC, informed the Section 194 ... Read More

Seven opposition parties decided yesterday to bring a motion of no confidence in President Cyril Ramaphosa, two months after the African Transformation Movement (ATM) tabled a section 89 motion to impeach him on charges of breaching the Constitution in the ... Read More

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has ordered the ANC staff provident fund to compel the ruling party to settle about R86m in accumulated contribution arrears that it owes members of the fund, reports BusinessLIVE. The authority signed an enforceable ... Read More

Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu has, by notice in the Government Gazette, announced that the threshold for qualification for the social relief of distress grant has been increased, meaning that many more poor people will qualify, writes Wyndham Hartley.  The ... Read More

The Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors (Irba) has, by notice in the Government Gazette, announced that a notice it published on 10 June on fees on assurance engagements payable to the Irba was incorrect, reports Wyndham Hartley.  ‘The schedule of ... Read More

Sport, Arts & Culture Minister Nathi, Mthethwa has, by notice in the Government Gazette, using the provisions of the South African Geographical Names Council Act (Act No 118 of 1998) announced that Main Road 201 in the Drakenstein Local Municipality and the ... Read More

SCA: Peloeole v Director of Public Prosecutions, Gauteng Judgment: 16 August 2022 Keywords: Criminal law and procedure – Appropriate sentence – ‘intent’ v ‘premeditation’ – Criminal Law Amendment Act 105 of 1997 (CLAA), s 51(1) Summary: Mr Peloeole, a former warrant ... Read More

Eastern Cape High Court (Gqeberha): Swarts v Minister of Public Works Judgment: 12 August 2022 Keywords: Delict – Slip-and-trip – Legal duty of custodian and occupier of public building Summary: Mr Swarts, a local attorney, attended at Gqeberha Magistrate's Court, when he ... Read More

Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg): Stoch and Another v Mntambo NO and Another Judgment: 11 August 2022 Keywords: Property law – Real rights – Praedial servitude – Alienation of Land Act 68 of 1981 (ALA), s 2(1) Summary: A shareblock company owned ... Read More

Police PPE corruption has jumped to R8.5m, reports the Daily Maverick. An initial probe by the NPA’s Investigating Directorate into allegations of corruption surrounding the procurement of police PPE revealed wasteful expenditure of R1.9m. The new figures were ... Read More

A former state prosecutor from the Free State has been convicted and sentenced in the Phuthaditjhaba Magistrate’s Court on charges of corruption and theft. The Mercury reports Nkululeko Theophilus Ngcana (51) was arrested in February 2021 by the Hawks’ Serious ... Read More

ANC MPL Andile Lili – convicted in the Bellville Magistrate’s Court in May for inciting members of the Ses’khona People’s Rights Movement to commit murder and common assault outside the Bellville Magistrate’s Court – will now have to wait until ... Read More

‘SA is yet to find a way to manifest the promises of accountability so central to the constitutional order. Marikana attests to this reality. Ten years since the events of 16 August 2012, SA is yet to reckon with the ... Read More

Last week, Stephen York, Bain & Co’s managing partner in SA, took out a full-page advertisement in Business Day appealing for ‘constructive dialogue’ with South Africans over its involvement in state capture in SA, specifically the dismantlement of SARS. York ... Read More

The Uganda judiciary is set to hold special court sessions to deal with sex-related offences Principal Judge Flavian Zeija said, according to a report in The Monitor. Zeija said cases such as rape and defilement have, for the past 10 ... Read More

The inaugural general assembly of the Audiovisual and Communication Regulators of Central African States (ECCAS) has called for media practitioners in the region to report more responsibly, thus preventing hate speech in journalism. A New Times report says the call ... Read More

A Harare woman accused of deliberately transmitting HIV to her lover will now know her fate on 30 August after her court case was postponed on Tuesday following delays by the state to respond to the defence’s submissions. A New Zimbabwe report ... Read More

A federal judge in Florida will hear arguments today (Thursday) over whether to make public an affidavit used to justify a search of Donald Trump’s Florida estate, as broadening legal disputes on multiple fronts intensify against the former President and ... Read More

A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists. According to a ... Read More

US President Joe Biden has signed a $700bn Bill that aims to fight climate change and healthcare costs while raising taxes mainly on the rich. The final version is more modest in scope than the $3.5trn package first envisaged ... Read More

* A man accused of killing a boy in the West Coast town of Klawer is still waiting for a bed at Valkenberg Psychiatric Hospital. The Klawer Magistrate's Court heard that Daniel Smit was number 87 on the waiting list ... Read More

* Three suspects that were arrested in Cape Town for possession of platinum are expected to appear in Goodwood Magistrates’ Court today. Zinzi Hani, spokesperson for the Western Cape Hawks, stated that the suspects were arrested in Goodwood after being caught ... Read More

* The precinct of Parliament in Cape Town had to be cordoned off yesterday morning, after SAPS noticed a suspicious package that was left unattended. Parliament’s spokesperson Moloto Mothapo said SAPS immediately deployed their bomb disposal specialists as part of normal ... Read More

* The trial of a former Kruger National Park ranger and a state veterinary technician accused of rhino poaching has been postponed to 22 November because the court dates of the accused’s legal representative clash with another trial. The ranger, Rodney ... Read More