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Public Interest SA has written to the Public Protector requesting an independent probe to establish whether public procurement prescripts were breached during the procurement of IT services by the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ), reports TimesLIVE.

After more than five years of fighting to have her rapist brought to justice, a Khayelitsha woman finally lost hope after experiencing alleged police indifference and lengthy court postponements.

Stellenbosch University will appoint a respected Judge to investigate the university’s campus culture, the rector of the university announced yesterday.

‘AfriForum’s appeal against the banning of the old SA flag by the Equality Court has once again sparked a heated public debate on freedom of speech. Some slyly dilute this fundamental debate into a simple battle between inhuman, callous apartheid apologists, who want to wave the old flag again; and sympathetic, compassionate human rights crusaders, who want to save people from an evil flag. However, this underhanded rhetorical tactic in debates over freedom of speech is as old as this debate itself.’

Peter Moyo’s lawyers who represented him in his now failed application to have Old Mutual’s non-executive directors declared delinquent and in contempt of court may find themselves in hot water.

Stellenbosch University Chancellor and former Constitutional Court Justice Edwin Cameron said he was ashamed when the institution made headlines this week after a student urinated on the personal belongings of a fellow student.

A former Mrs SA contestant, who had demanded transparency, has won a court battle for access to the financial reports of the pageant’s affiliate, Women4Women (W4W).

For more than two years, the Constitutional Court precinct has not been used for its main purpose: the hearing of important constitutional cases.

Thousands of people have signed a petition calling for the expulsion of a University of Stellenbosch student at the centre of an allegedly racist incident that occurred at a student residence over the weekend.

The R22m monumental flag project budget should be used on sport development and creating work for destitute artists, members of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Sports, Arts & Culture told Minister Nathi Mthethwa yesterday.

In a bitter blow for Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has rejected his bid to set aside gross misconduct findings against him, warning that his narrow interpretation of the Constitution would leave the JSC paralysed to ‘ensure his own immunity’.

A former State Attorney official, together with a family member and an associate, have been ordered by the Special Tribunal to pay back R4.5m they allegedly defrauded from the Gauteng Department of Health.

The man who sent the text message that prompted the postponement of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s High Court application to halt her suspension and impeachment inquiry has denied he had inside information that suggested any impropriety on the part of the judiciary, but his message suggested otherwise. 

The SCA has slammed controversial Limpopo High Court Judge President Ephraim Makgoba for using foul language in a judgment he handed to a convicted police officer.

Independent Media's Baby Trade docuseries has been axed as a finalist for a global journalism award.