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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Tuesday 03 September 2024

Wits to pay R1,1m to end Reid Birley saga, and other brief reports...

* The University of the Witwatersrand has agreed to pay its former vice-chancellor, Professor Norma Reid-Birley R1.1m ‘in settlement of the dispute between them’. This follows her controversial resignation in 2002. – News24

* A panel of experts will offer answers to questions on gender violence in the workplace from noon today, to an audience in Johannesburg and online at http://www.cyberdialogues.co.za – The Mercury * A new prohibition is set to be placed on people conducting, operating and promoting pyramid, multiplication, binary and chain letter schemes. This follows a notice published in the Government Gazette in which Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa gave notice of his intention to publish a new prohibition notice with regards to these schemes. – Business Report * The Pretoria High Court has reserved judgment in the case in which former death row prisoner Casper Kruger is claiming damages from Correctional Services for being unlawfully incarcerated. – Daily Dispatch * The Johannesburg High Court will hand down sentences today for Helena Hoffman (56) and co-accused Doreen Stoop (31), convicted of murdering Hoffman\'s lover Frederik van Heerden by injecting him with insulin. – The Star