A claim that former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela was part of an elite team of advisers who drew up a blueprint for former President Jacob Zuma's government before 2009 will be made at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into ... Read More
How Eskom funds earmarked for crucial maintenance of power plants were diverted to the Kusile power station project and other capital expenditure programmes where they were allegedly looted through dodgy tenders is being investigated by the Hawks. Lack of maintenance ... Read More
Former acting SARS Commissioner Ivan Pillay, his predecessor Oupa Magashula and former senior SARS official Vlok Symington will present themselves before Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane today after they were summoned to be questioned about Pillay’s early retirement. Public Enterprises Minister ... Read More
Given the number of Bills still before National Assembly committees when the House rose last Wednesday for the 8 May elections, it is now clear that Parliament’s plan was always to suspend rules that would otherwise have required at an embarrassingly large ... Read More
Of 11 private members’ Bills tabled in Parliament last year, four had yet to be considered by the National Assembly committees concerned when the House rose last week for the 8 May elections. Since it was resolved last month to suspend Rules ... Read More
New regulations for community broadcasting were gazetted on Friday with a document explaining the rationale behind changes made to those in place since 2016, reports Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. They mark the culmination of a review process begun by the ... Read More
Regulations on unreserved postal services are to be reviewed in the light of an inquiry conducted last year by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), reports Pam Saxby for Legalbrief Policy Watch. The sub-sector handles postal articles larger and ... Read More
The Western Cape High Court has postponed the child abuse case of a stepfather and his ex-wife, notes a News24 report. Taswell Louw and his ex-wife Renzia face charges of attempted murder and child abuse as a result of allegations ... Read More
The man accused of murdering Irish aid worker John Curran is set to apply for bail next month, notes a TimesLIVE report. Mitspa Onyoka appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court on Friday. The 24-year-old Congolese national was arrested ... Read More
Seven teenagers arrested in connection with the murder of Thoriso Themane will remain behind bars after their case was postponed on Friday. The accused appeared at the Polokwane Juvenile Court where their case was postponed to 2 and 3 April ... Read More
In a lengthy, comprehensive critique of the ‘Glenister III’ judgment back in 2014 on the Politicsweb site, the University of Pretoria’s Professor Koos Malan and Advocate Paul Hoffman SC suggest the Constitutional Court majority got it wrong – so wrong ... Read More
The controversial Copyright Amendment Bill, which critics claim is riddled with flaws but is nevertheless expected to be passed in the NCOP this week, is supported in two recent articles. Sean Flynn, of the American University Washington College of Law ... Read More
Mali's government has banned the group of hunters it says was behind an attack in which more than 130 villagers were killed, according to BBC News. At dawn on Saturday, gunmen surrounded a village of the Fulani ethnic community ... Read More
The trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, appears to be reaching an anti-climax with key prosecution witnesses' testimony contradicting claims that the embattled number one judicial officer might have corruptly amassed wealth way out of ... Read More
The US military may be guilty of war crimes for killing large numbers of civilians in a sharply stepped-up campaign of air strikes in Somalia over the past two years, Amnesty International said. The rights group said it had been ... Read More
Special counsel Robert Mueller found that neither President Donald Trump nor any of his aides colluded with Russia during the 2016 election, according to a letter delivered to Congress yesterday by the US Attorney-General. The letter from William Barr also ... Read More
A person who applies to set aside a judgment on the basis of fraud does not have to demonstrate that the fraud could not have been spotted with reasonable diligence, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled. The judgment in Takhar ... Read More
Judges will open the floodgates to thousands of costs claims from former clients of law firms if they allow a landmark challenge to pass, the UK’s Court of Appeal has heard, according to a Law Gazette report. Claimant firm HH ... Read More
* Two men found guilty of killing a 75-year-old woman and her 35-year-old son have been handed down two life sentences each. Thabani Lushaba (24) and Samkelo Bhengu (23) were sentenced to two life sentences in the KKZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg ... Read More
* A man accused of fatal attacks on a cyclist and a mountain walker is to remain in custody as particulars are prepared for his trial, the Western Cape High Court ruled on Friday. Blessing Bveni is accused the 2018 murders ... Read More
* Judgment has been reserved in the appeal of Plettenberg Bay paedophile William Beale against his sentence. Beale, a former computer engineer, was convicted in 2017 on 18 644 counts of possession of child pornography. The Thembalethu Regional Court had sentenced ... Read More
