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The government spent R8.39m of taxpayers' money to accommodate Deputy President David Mabuza's security personnel in hotels and lodges in the first six months of the Covid-19 lockdown.

After 12 years, a KZN psychologist has been given the go-ahead to sue mining giant Assmang Ltd for ‘maliciously’ reporting her to the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA).

The Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) has imposed a R122.9m fine on Markus Jooste for insider trading on the day of the collapse of the Steinhoff share price in December 2017 when admissions of ‘accounting irregularities’ and his sudden resignation came to light, but there's every reason to believe he will appeal the matter, possibly all the way to the Constitutional Court, which would drag it out for years.

The Judicial Conduct Tribunal's probe into a 12-year-old complaint of judicial misconduct against Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has been postponed yet again, reports TimesLIVE.

The commission monitoring compliance with empowerment legislation says it has received almost 700 complaints of fronting – in which ‘token’ black people are passed off as company shareholders – in the past four years.

An anti-abortion doctor, who was prohibited from practising medicine for three years, is off the hook after the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) dropped charges of unprofessional conduct against him.

Three employees of the Road Accident Fund have been suspended for alleged involvement in corrupt activities regarding claims. And, according to a report in The Sunday Independent, four more employees are in line to be suspended for similar transgressions.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reprimanded Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula over the ANC junket to Harare on an airforce jet this month and docked three months of her salary.

An attorney who hurled insults at a Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) judge yesterday has blamed the sequence of events on frustration and a medical condition, notes a TimesLIVE report.

Nomvula Mokonyane has never declared a R2m ‘gift’ that was a down payment on a luxury Aston Martin sports car – but sweaters, a bag and a R10 000 worth of Telkom shares made the cut, according to records obtained by News24.

KZN sex workers claim the word prostitutes is derogatory, undermining and demeaning and they don't want to be associated with the word.

Up Money director Jude Matsimela’s urgent application in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) to have a preservation order on its assets rescinded has been dismissed with costs.

The SCA has dismissed with costs an application by prominent Limpopo-based lawyer Tumi Mokwena to stop the Law Society of the Northern Provinces from inspecting all trust accounts and books relating to his practice.

A picture began to emerge of how the Free State 'asbestos heist' contract was sliced during Friday's sitting of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture.

Crooked former attorney Mzingaye Gqomo, struck off the roll of attorneys for stealing money from clients, has been unsuccessful in his bid to be reinstated to the profession.