Legal Articles and Guides

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.

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.

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.

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.

The NPA has registered its first victory in the case against fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri after obtaining a court order legitimising the seizure of his private jet stationed at Lanseria airport.

In a leaked whistle-blower report, former President Jacob Zuma's benefactor, Roy Moodley, has been accused of capturing the NPA in KZN.

The attempted murder and assault case against businessman Edwin Sodi has been struck from the roll. Sodi was charged in connection with a March 2022 incident at his Bryanston home involving his estranged wife, Nthateng Lerata, and a male friend of hers, Faizal Motlekar.

The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has ordered the forfeiture of over R1.8m to the state following an alleged fraudulent scheme targeting manufacturing company, Colliery Dust Control.

A trial date has been set for the highly publicised feud between musicians Ntimela Chauke and Master KG over who is the real mastermind behind the global Jerusalema hit.

The NPA Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) obtained an order in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to preserve a house in Hartbeespoort belonging to Johannes Badenhorst and his wife, Christelle Badenhorst.

SA’s embrace of dagga gummies and other edible cannabis products has been enthusiastic, but a notification published in the Government Gazette has confirmed the prohibition of the sale, importation and manufacture of foodstuffs containing any part of the plant or component derived from the genus Cannabis Sativa L, hemp, hemp seed oil or hemp seed flour’.

Bags of cash totalling R14m a year were allegedly handed over as bribes to Emfuleni Municipality employees to help a company hook up an illegal electricity connection and tamper with meter readings.

Government has welcomed a Malawian court ruling that self- proclaimed prophet Shepherd and Mary Bushiri be extradited to SA to face numerous charges including fraud and rape.

Clynton Marks, one of the highest-ranking members in the collapsed Mirror Trading International (MTI) pyramid scheme, has been arrested, reports My Broadband.

The African Transformation Movement (ATM), MKP and the EFF are preparing to approach the Constitutional Court to overturn the decision to classify the latest report on the Phala Phala scandal involving President Cyril Ramaphosa’s police bodyguards.