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eThekwini municipality deputy supply chain manager Sandile Ngcobo, one of 20 accused in a R320m corruption and fraud case relating to a waste collection contract, has failed in a bid to have R1m released from his restrained assets.

Standard Bank has said it took several days to disclose the latest data breach on its LookSee platform because its immediate focus was to get to the bottom of the issue first and establish how serious it was.

More than two years after the High Court set aside the report of the arms deal commission, retired Judges Willie Seriti and Hendrik Musi have applied to appeal the judgment, saying it ‘is being used as a whip to harass us’.

In the apartheid era, a huge portion of the population was denied property rights in terms of the Black Land Act, the Group Areas Act and the Black Administration Act.

Ntombekhaya Maclean, the widow of former Buffalo City Metro Mayor Sindisile Maclean, is faced with a formidable legal bill after Eastern Cape High Court (Makhanda) Judge Murray Lowe ruled she is liable for wasted expenses in a court challenge over her late husband’s estate.

Delays at the country's 15 Master's Offices are not only preventing beneficiaries of deceased estates from getting their dues, but recipients of court imposed maintenance payments have had to resort to picketing to get their voices heard.

Reports that NDPP, Advocate Shamila Batohi, has argued for ‘a fully independent NPA in law, finance and operations’ are taken up by Advocate Jacques du Preez, CEO of the FW de Klerk Foundation, who says it would be a ‘crucially’ positive development in SA’s constitutional democracy.

Civil rights group Action Society is calling for the removal of convicted child rapist Jeffrey Donson, as mayor of Kannaland local municipality, reports The Citizen.

With its ‘marriage-centric’ focus, the Constitutional Court privileges religious unions in its approach to the term spousal relationship, thereby failing to force the legislature to protect all legally unrecognised unions that play the same social role as marriage. So argues Ladysmith Magistrate Desmond Francke.

A national register meant to stop suppliers found guilty of criminal offences from doing business with the government has no names on it, according to a report by Corruption Watch.

For suppliers of goods or services, incorporating a strong, clearly worded exemption clause (a clause excluding or restricting your liability to the customer) into your contracts is an essential part of risk management. Just be aware of the restrictions that our laws place on them.

Astonishing, barely believable claims of a massive medical conspiracy, with the assistance of the Gauteng Government, were trotted out at a press briefing yesterday by Independent Media executive chair Dr Iqbal Survé as an explanation of why the infamous Tembisa 10 decuplets story run by his newspapers was in fact true, despite the babies never being found.

ANC national chair Gwede Mantashe yesterday took a swipe at his successor Ace Magashule, suggesting that had he been schooled by the NUM, as his three predecessors were, he would not have made the blunders he did, including his bid to suspend the party’s president.

Stats SA had to delay the publication of data on civil cases for debt last week because of the recent backlog at the Department of Justice.

Durban Advocate Morris Ndlela – who allegedly pocketed more than R200 000 when a property sale fell through – has apparently gone rogue after promising a full refund to the buyer.