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NPA head Shamila Batohi said impunity was no longer a given as she promised major prosecutions within six months to restore the rule of law, which she said was on life support.

Eskom has confirmed that historical municipal defaulter Maluti-A-Phofung (MAP) has settled R54m of its debt, reports The Citizen.

SARS will be providing more reparations and apologies to current and former employees impacted by governance failures during Tom Moyane's controversial tenure as commissioner, reports Fin24.

The Department of Justice is planning to establish magisterial districts and District Courts in four provinces to make courts more accessible.

‘The Zondo report ensures that corruption remains firmly embedded in the public discourse. We as civil society must now push for quick action and real penalties. We must not let up, otherwise the report will become another white elephant.’

Communications Minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni says while the SA Post Office (Sapo) is not soliciting the support of Parliament for a R9bn bailout, it requires a R1.6bn funding injection.

The SA equality clause states that everyone is equal before the law and has the right to equal protection and benefit of the law, in accordance with section nine of the Constitution.

The fallout over how the ANC should implement the recommendations in the report on state capture by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is threatening to destabilise President Cyril Ramaphosa’s strongholds.

The government has had to step in to stop Telkom cutting off services to the SA Post Office (Sapo) – a move the Sunday Times says would have left the Post Office unable to pay social grants or renew vehicle registrations.

Spies assigned to protect former President Jacob Zuma by the State Security Agency (SSA) allegedly smuggled high-calibre assault rifles and pistols into Lesotho using his presidential jet in order to protect then Prime Minister Tom Thabane and Gupta family interests after the Lesotho Defence Force had attempted to overthrow the government.

The company that built the shoddy R15m Lesseyton stadium may be forced to repay monies received from the contract if the Enoch Mgijima Municipality acts on the recommendations of the probe into its construction.

Two multimillion-rand contracts ‘irregularly’ entered into by a multinational software company, Systems Applications Products (SAP), and the Department of Water & Sanitation have been nullified by the Special Tribunal, which ordered the company to repay R413m to the department.

The Western Cape, and Cape Town in particular, has topped the list in terms of the number of racism complaints submitted to the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority.

Two gunmen who fired shots and wounded a security guard outside the Cape Town home of Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath are on the run as the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation steps in to investigate.

Parliament is set to approve regulations that would allow the raising of children's criminal liability from 10 to 12 years.