The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has moved swiftly to grant section 21 authorisation for the importation of the Dollvet Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD) vaccine, a critical measure intended to provide immediate relief to the country’s beleaguered agricultural sector. The ... Read More

Lukhanyo Calata on Friday testified at the TRC Commission of Inquiry that the original murder docket for the Cradock Four vanished without any explanation, accountability or consequences, reports News24. Calata said the disappearance of the file on the 1985 killings ... Read More

The SCA has dismissed with costs an application by the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to appeal a judgment that slammed the fund for refusing to abide by 181 court orders in favour of Sunshine Hospital. The RAF made several attempts ... Read More

Mineral & Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has, by notice in the Government Gazette, published the SA National Petroleum Company Bill, writes Wyndham Hartley. The Bill seeks to provide for the establishment of the SA National Petroleum Company; to provide ... Read More

Head of the National Disaster Management Centre Elias Sithole has, in his capacity as the head of the centre, after having considered reports submitted on the foot and mouth disease outbreak in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KZN, Limpopo ... Read More

SCA Ncala v Park Avenue Body Corporate and Others Judgment: 12 February 2026 Keywords: Condonation application – late filing of appeal – whether High Court had jurisdiction to condone late filing – whether condonation warranted – constitutional rights to dignity ... Read More

Western Cape High Court (Thembalethu) Grey Elephant Investments (Pty) Ltd v Knysna Local Municipality Judgment: 11 February 2026 Keywords: Mandament van spolie – possession – whether the relationship between GEI and the electricity supply was such as to require protection ... Read More

North West High Court (Mahikeng) Khanyisa Mogale Attorneys v Mankele Zipporah Mokotedi obo Brian Ridge Moagi Judgment: 12 February 2026 Keywords: Lapsed appeal – reinstatement application – condonation for late filing – principles – explanation vague and unsatisfactory – negligence ... Read More

The two men accused of murdering Cape Town businessman Mark Lifman in a George parking lot have been denied bail for the second time, reports News24. Gert Bezuidenhout and Johannes Hendrik Jacobs, both private security specialists, had applied for bail ... Read More

A Durban driver charged with culpable homicide claims hand sanitiser was responsible for the strong alcohol smell police detected after he crashed, reports News24. Jagadisha Harishun’s silver-grey Audi crashed into a petrol bowser at Palmerston Shell in Stella Road on ... Read More

Sentencing proceedings for a KZN pensioner convicted of murdering a father-of-two in a road rage shooting resumed last week after coming to a halt last year when he was hospitalised, reports News24. Anthony Ball (70) failed to appear in court ... Read More

Public debate often frames short-term rental (STR) regulation as a clash between ‘disruptors’ and ‘dinosaurs.’ But the reality for South African hospitality is simpler and more urgent, argues Anton Gillis, CEO of the Hospitality Asset Management Company. Gillis contends ... Read More

The uncomfortable truth in any merger or acquisition is you’re not just buying an organisation’s future cash flows, you are buying its history. That includes the risks it has recorded, the risks it has ignored, and most dangerously, the risks ... Read More

The High Court has declined to lift a freeze on a Ksh 200bn ($1.5m) health co-operation agreement between Kenya and the US, reports the Kenyans. This was after an appeal was filed by Senator Okiya Omtatah seeking to stop ... Read More

The Abuja Court of Appeal has reserved judgment in nine appeals filed by rival factions of the Peoples Democratic Party over decisions of the Federal High Court stopping the party’s 15 and 16 November national convention held in Oyo State ... Read More

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has postponed the legislative and municipal elections that were expected at the start of February, reports EWN. Originally scheduled for 2025, the elections had already been postponed once until early 2026. No new date was ... Read More

Attorney General Pam Bondi revealed a list of 305 high-profile individuals that have showed up in the Epstein files. The Daily Mail reports that the Trump administration has been drip-releasing millions of emails, photos and documents relating to the case ... Read More

France's top court last week ruled against reopening an investigation into the 2016 death of a young black man in police custody, confirming a previous decision to dismiss the case against three arresting officers. A report in Le Monde ... Read More

Judges in the UK have humiliated Ministers by insisting Palestine Action should not be banned under anti-terrorism laws in a ruling that has left thousands of its alleged supporters in legal limbo. A report in The Guardian notes that the ... Read More

* Min­is­ter of Forestry, Fish­er­ies & the Envir­on­ment, Wil­lie Aucamp, has star­ted a pub­lic con­sulta­tion pro­cess over a reclam­a­tion applic­a­tion made by the V&A Water­front to reclaim land from the sea to expand the pop­u­lar Cape Town tour­ist des­tin­a­tion in a ... Read More

* More than 300 crim­inal incid­ents involving Nel­son Man­dela Uni­versity (NMU) stu­dents were recor­ded last year. These include sexual offences, theft and murders on and off cam­pus res­id­ences. NMU has about 23 000 stu­dents expec­ted to reside off cam­pus and more ... Read More

* A renowned filmmaker faces the prospect of losing her personal assets at public auction after her production company allegedly fell behind on tax payments. The SARS wrote to Zikethiwe Ngcobo on 28 January, threatening civil action after Fuzebox Productions allegedly ... Read More

* A Bela-Bela estate agent was drugged, kidnapped and robbed of his pickup truck by a man who claimed he was a desperate cancer patient. Johan Kotze went to show a smallholding to a ‘Gerhard Pieter’ last Monday. Kotze said he ... Read More

* A North West councillor was stabbed to death in a fight over a woman. A 35-year-old man has since been arrested for the murder of City of Matlosana councillor Molefi Sello. Sello was stabbed in Klerksdorp on Friday morning, police ... Read More

* The KZN Department of Transport is investigating the roadworthy certificate issued to a minibus transporting learners in the province. Transport MEC Siboniso Duma said the vehicle from Pietermaritzburg was issued a roadworthy certificate in the Eastern Cape despite it not ... Read More

* SA National Parks has suspended the indemnity and verification form requirement at Table Mountain National Park (TMNP) with immediate effect. The suspension came just days after the parks body announced the implementation of the measure. It had been introduced at ... Read More

* Makhanda is facing a water crisis, with ongo­ing drought, van­dal­ised infra­struc­ture and poor plan­ning con­trib­ut­ing to the situ­ation as res­id­ents and busi­nesses bear the brunt. Fron­tier Coun­try has been without water for six weeks. Res­id­ents and busi­nesses are forced to ... Read More

* Tensions between the Gauteng Department of Roads & Transport and scholar transport operators escalated last week as the government continues to tighten compliance measures, while operators took to the streets in protest and refused to attend a scheduled engagement on ... Read More

* Some Johannesburg areas remained without water yesterday despite the government’s promise that supply would be restored. Minister of Water & Sanitation Pemmy Majodina told reporters that ‘by latest on Sunday, all communities should have water’.‘Our report from Rand Water ... Read More

* Residents along one of Midrand’s busiest commuter routes say Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s official convoy repeatedly drives against oncoming traffic during the morning rush, turning ordinary public roads into temporary VIP corridors and leaving motorists intimidated, delayed and unsafe. One ... Read More