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The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has dismissed an application by a convicted fraudster, Jeremiah Dube, for bail pending an appeal to the SCA against his conviction and sentence.

The SCA has ordered a new inquest – a public hearing with oral evidence – into the death of Theresa Wampach-Todd, who in 2016 fell to her death from a cliff in the Cederberg Mountains in the Western Cape.

Six months after it was last in court, the arms deal corruption case against former President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thales will be back in the KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) today and tomorrow.

Alfred Nevhutanda, the former chairperson of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), used lottery money to build a luxury holiday house in Limpopo, an investigation by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) found.

Eastern Cape farmer and rape-accused Louis Lategan claims his ex-wife is trying to frame him. According to Lategan, in an effort to bolster her alleged attempts to gain sole custody of their children, she created a WhatsApp group with some of the complainants, as well as ‘a bald man’, and they allegedly conspired against him, he testified on Friday.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) says it recovered R13.5m from Tembisa Hospital nurse Zacharia Chisele who was arrested this week after allegedly attempting to bribe a Hawks investigating officer.

Corruption-accused Gauteng High Court Judge Portia Phahlane said the case against her is ‘the result of a personal vendetta,’ waged by those involved in the legal wrangle for control of the International Pentecost Holiness Church (IPHC).

Nicole Johnson, the wife of alleged crime boss Ralph Stanfield, is among nine female inmates set to be transferred from Pollsmoor Prison to the Van Rhynsdorp Correctional Centre in the Matzikama Municipality.

A Mpumalanga attorney (44) has been sentenced to 10 years’ direct imprisonment for stealing R3.3m RAF money, which includes a R1.4m payout for a child who had been injured in a crash.

Former Public Enterprises Minister and current co-chair of Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence, Malusi Gigaba, has been charged with corruption and added as the fifth accused in the multibillion-rand Transnet locomotive tender case, reports News24.

Human trafficking could be among the reasons behind the arrival of the Palestinian families in SA as the organisation that handled the departure is unregistered and facilitated the travel irregularly and irresponsibly.

After a number of escapes from holding cells and brief escapes from prisons in the Western Cape, authorities are beefing up security ahead of the festive season and beyond.

Prince Lungalomndeni Zulu will spend a week behind bars after his bail application was remanded in the Richards Bay Magistrate’s Court in a fresh multimillion-rand mineral theft case.

Former President Jacob Zuma is scheduled to testify on behalf of his daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, and the state is expected to call a cellphone expert when the trial resumes next week.

Taxi boss Kholwani Ntanjana has been described as the alleged orchestrator of the attack on Advocate Coreth Naudé SC, reports The Mercury.