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Correctional Services Minister Pieter Groenewald said yesterday that he was pondering whether to continue with court action involving the private prison in Bloemfontein where inmate Thabo Bester escaped three years ago.

The Department of Correctional Services has revealed limited information about the monitoring of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik’s health since his controversial medical parole release in 2009 reports The Citizen.

The Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) has impounded at least 15 delivery bikes and arrested 10 foreign nationals for contravention of the Immigration Act.

The NPA has indicated that it will start the process to appeal the acquittal of Nigerian pastor Timothy Omotoso and his co-accused, Lusanda Sulani and Zukiswa Sitho.

Thomas Torr, reportedly an aspiring comedian, has been found guilty of hate speech in the Equality Court, sitting in the Western Cape High Court.

Former midwife Yolande Maritz, accused of assaulting mothers and their newborn babies during labour, will have to answer to a charge of culpable homicide as her trial got under way in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria).

Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s bodyguards were acquitted in a disciplinary hearing because the authenticity of seemingly damning video evidence against them allegedly could not be verified.

Civil rights watchdog Action Society wants a review of the police's internal accountability processes after eight VIP Protection Unit officers were cleared of wrongdoing in a disciplinary hearing concluded earlier this week.

A man residing in the UK is pursuing a civil lawsuit against the Sisters of Nazareth, alleging that he was sexually abused as a child while living in an orphanage they operated in Gqeberha, reports The Herald.

A KZN man is suing his wife for R5m for pain and suffering after she murdered their four-year-old daughter. Madelein Ackerman, who is serving an 18-year sentence in Westville prison for the murder, was recently put under curatorship because, it was alleged, she is suffering from severe depression and cannot represent herself in legal proceedings against her healthcare executive husband, André.

Football fan Bathanda Mrabule, who was caught driving with an open bottle of alcohol, has had his sentence overturned.

The Free State High Court has heard that former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule received R10m shortly after Edwin Sodi’s company was paid R230m for a tender in 2014 to remove asbestos roofing from houses.

A former Mpumalanga teacher must pay two years of future maintenance in a lump sum to a schoolgirl who bore his child from the impending payout of his government pension fund, reports TimesLIVE.

Home Affairs is moving swiftly in its efforts to uproot rampant corruption within the department, with the latest dismissal of six officials for various offences, including fraud and corruption.

Former President Jacob Zuma has suffered an eighth legal loss in his campaign to privately prosecute State Advocate Billy Downer SC and legal reporter Karyn Maughan, after the Constitutional Court unanimously rejected his latest appeal application – with costs, reports News24.