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Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille has ordered an investigation into a senior public works official who allegedly misled the courts by deposing to an affidavit on De Lille's behalf without her knowledge or permission, says a Sunday Times report.

The grace period for licence renewals has once again been extended, with 1.2m motorists in possession of expired licences yet to renew them.

While there appears to have been a decrease in land invasions in Cape Town, the provincial government said that millions still had to be spent on security.

The end of the grace period for renewing learner’s licences, driving licence cards, temporary driving licences, and professional driving permits (PrdPs) that expired between March and December last year is looming.

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) yesterday declared that Eskom's award of a tender to Senta Square to perform control and instrumentation maintenance at Camden Power Station in Mpumalanga between 1 March 2019 and 28 February 2022 was unlawful.

Although dismissing her bid to have the National Assembly's rules for removing a Chapter Nine Institution head declared unconstitutional, the Western Cape High Court decided to rewrite some of the rules, and in the process opened the door for Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to demand the inquiry into her fitness to hold office be halted with immediate effect.

The SIU, which is in the process of tracking down about R90m of the R150m paid to Digital Vibes, has reportedly recommended to President Cyril Ramaphosa that he should fire his Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, who was placed on special leave by the President over alleged corruption in the Covid-19 Digital Vibes communications contract.

The DA says more than R1bn in municipal contracts in KZN have been paid to state officials and their families. This, according to the party, is contained in the Auditor-General's report for 2019/21.

The Constitutional Court has again protected the public against Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s ‘ever-growing litany of legal catastrophes’, says the anonymous legal expert ‘Professor Balthazar’.

A High Court judgment declaring almost all of the level three and four lockdown regulations as unconstitutional and invalid has been dismissed by the SCA, reports News24.

The government is due present the national cannabis master plan to the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) on Wednesday, almost three years after the Constitutional Court decriminalised the use of the plant.

Private energy generators have been given free rein to develop their own power to ‘reduce the burden’ on an ailing Eskom, which has subjected the country to debilitating rolling blackouts for more than a decade.

The NPA's Independent Directorate (ID) – established specifically to deal with high-profile corruption cases — has wasted no time beginning the process to get Atul and Ajay Gupta, their wives and four business associates extradited from the UAE.

The High Court review of the R538m contract between the Eastern Cape Department of Education and IT company Sizwe Africa and cellphone giant MTN for the supply of 55 000 e-learning tablets for learners hangs in abeyance after the department’s private legal team was forced to withdrew from the case.

Civil society organisation, the Liberty Fighters Network, has taken offence at a decision by the SCA to hold an appeal hearing virtually, and not in person, in a matter on the validity of lockdown regulations, reports City Press.