Legal Articles and Guides
DA flags 'ridiculous' sums for service providers
The Gauteng Department of Sports, Arts, Culture & Recreation spent R16m on two service providers to administer R13.2m Covid-19 relief grants to the Gauteng athletes and artists.
More skeletons tumble out of Digital Vibes cupboard
The heat is about to be turned up a notch on Health Minister Zweli Mkhize following the latest revelations by Daily Maverick investigative unit Scorpio on the Digital Vibes saga.
Systemic causes of state capture unexplored
The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture is duplicating an existing state function – that of investigating and prosecuting individual crimes. Rather than looking into the systemic cause of state capture, it seems preoccupied with the escapades of ‘capturepreneurs’.
State printer system crash investigation proposed
Parliament’s Home Affairs Portfolio Committee says it has recommended an investigation into the loss of data after a system crash at the Government Printing Works (GPW).
Online system for deceased estates this year
Justice Minister Ronald Lamola says his department is developing an online system for the reporting of deceased estates, expected to come on stream in the current financial year.
De Lille tackles over-charging for ANC funerals
The government plans to spend less on functions, state visits and funerals, according to Public Works & Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille who was delivering her budget vote speech in Parliament yesterday.
Hlophe pulls out of Mkhwebane case
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has withdrawn from the case in which Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is challenging the constitutionality of Parliament’s impeachment rules.
Phosa opens case over Yacoob 'step-aside' spat
He would willingly testify before the JSC, said former Constitutional Court Justice Zak Yacoob after former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa opened a criminal case against him.
Top advocate rubbishes Mpofu racism claims
General Council of the Bar chairperson Craig Watt-Pringle says Advocate Dali Mpofu's ‘shut up’ comments to counsel Michelle le Roux at the State Capture Inquiry amounted to ‘bullying’, which he says Mpofu falsely tried to justify with racism claims.
JSC urged to recommend Hlophe suspension
The question of how the JSC will vote in the matter of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe, considering what is termed its ‘abysmal track record’, is pertinent to the chances of Hlophe presiding as part of a three-judge panel on the Public Protector’s challenge to the constitutionality of an inquiry into her fitness to hold office.
Arms deal judges face top-level inquiry
The judges who presided over the R150m Arms Deal Inquiry, damned by critics as 'a whitewash' after it found no evidence of corruption in the multibillion-rand deal, are facing an investigation for ‘incapacity, gross incompetence or gross misconduct’.
Lawyer condemned by judges is still practising
The Legal Practice Council (LPC) has struck off only four crooked practitioners in the Eastern Cape out of 118 attorneys nationally who have been booted from the profession since 2018.
Hlophe lawyer gets suspended jail term for contempt
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe’s legal representative, Barnabas Xulu, has been found in contempt of six civil court orders, slapped with a R30 000 fine, instructed to surrender his Porsche 911 Carrera and sentenced to 30 days imprisonment, suspended for three years.
LPC taken to court for failing to rein in lawyer
A news agency is taking the Legal Practice Council (LPC) to court for failing to act against a lawyer it alleges is a ‘Lottery crook’.
JSC has got it all wrong on Hlophe
The JSC is plainly wrong in law to claim it is unable to recommend the suspension of Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and by extension prevent him from participating in the JSC interviews of candidates for appointment to the division of the High Court he heads tomorrow.
