Sandvliet Boerdery (Pty) Ltd v Maria Mampies & Another (107/2018) (2019) ZASCA 100 (8 July 2019) Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 – s 6(2)(dA) – meaning of ‘reside’ – depends on facts of each case and ...
The US Labour Secretary Alexander Acosta is facing renewed calls for his resignation over the lenient 2008 plea deal he cut with Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who this week was charged with operating a sex trafficking ring involving girls ...
The DA in Gauteng has accused the West Rand District Municipality of hiding a forensic report into more than R80m invested with VBS Mutual Bank. A report on the Iol site notes that the DA’s Scopa member Ina Cilliers made ...
The National Association of Democratic Lawyers has set up a team of attorneys and advocates to challenge the City of Cape Town's by-laws targeting 'poor and homeless' people. In a statement issued yesterday, Nadel said the by-laws, which prohibited people ...
Zimbabwean MP Job Sikhala was yesterday charged with treason for allegedly saying he wanted to overthrow President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The vice-chairman of the opposition MDC was 'formally charged with attempting to overthrow the government unconstitutionally', his lawyer Obey Shava told ...
The government is forging ahead with plans to trim the unsustainable public sector wage bill, a stance likely to put it on a collision course with its labour allies. The public servants’ salary bill is one of the biggest threats ...
The husband of the Chatsworth principal who was murdered during a property viewing of their home said they had placed their utmost faith in estate agency, Pam Golding, who had employed the man who was found guilty of her murder ...
South Africa’s largest mobile operators believe data prices could start falling once the government releases additional spectrum next month. But much will depend on the cost of the spectrum. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the state will begin the process after ...
Former head of state protocol Bruce Koloane has admitted to using former President Jacob Zuma's name to put pressure on Department of Defence officials to authorise the landing of privately chartered jet carrying guests for a Gupta family wedding at ...
Over the past 10 years, the Department of Home Affairs processed 633 395 applications for asylum, only granting 99 624 of these applications. According to a News24 report, this means 533 771 people, mostly coming from war-torn and severely distressed ...
The special tribunal set up to recover money looted from the state is expected to be operational by October, the head of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Andy Mothibi, said yesterday, notes News24. The tribunal was established by President Cyril ...
The father of a Cape Town Hawks detective was gunned down in Melkbosstrand yesterday morning, according to the Hawks. A News24 report notes that Nici Heerschap (74) was shot twice in his vehicle and died on the scene, said Captain ...
* The fate of murder accused Newcastle Mayor Ntuthuko Mahlaba lies in the hands of the acting DPP in KZN. Mahlaba appeared at the Madadeni Magistrate's Court yesterday in connection with a murder charge he is facing following the death ...
The woman accused of the murder of 10-year-old Siphumelele Mzimba in Pinetown, Durban, will remain behind bars after she decided that she would not apply for bail, says a News24 report. Zandile Nsele appeared in the Pinetown Magistrate's Court yesterday ...
The DA in KwaZulu-Natal has reiterated its call for government to remove embattled eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede from its ranks. According to a TimesLIVE report, DA KZN spokesperson on co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta), Mbali Ntuli, said she had ...
A police sergeant and an alleged accomplice appeared in the Alexandra Magistrate's Court this week for allegedly trying to extort R50m from a Gauteng businessman. A News24 report notes that Sergeant Abdul Rahim and Abdool Yameen Sadik and two other ...
A man has pleaded guilty to crimes in terms of the Animal Protection Act after being caught on video stabbing a seal pup and smashing its body against a boat, the Swartland and West Coast Society for the Prevention of ...
A warrant of arrest has been issued for gqom-star Bongekile 'Babes Wodumo' Simelane and her partner Mandla 'Mampintsha' Maphumulo after they failed to appear in the Pinetown Magistrate's Court yesterday. News24 says the couple was previously warned to attend court ...
NDPP Shamila Batohi has decided to withdraw racketeering charges against former KZN Hawks head General Johan Booysen and others, says a Mail & Guardian Online report. The charge of racketeering – alleged by Booysen to be part of the capture ...
In June 2019 – in S v S and Another – the Constitutional Court confirmed the constitutionality of section 16(3) of the Superior Courts Act. This section states that spouses cannot appeal maintenance pending litigation, costs of pending matrimonial actions, ...
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) used national security laws to access the metadata of journalists nearly 60 times in just one year, according to a new disclosure that will be used to pressure the government to strengthen press freedom. According ...
British Airways (BA) faces a fine of more than £183m from the UK's data protection authority over a security lapse that exposed personal data belonging to about 500 000 customers to hackers last year. According to a report on the ...
Zimbabwean Qedindaba Arthur Dube (39) – who pleaded guilty to several charges relating to the use of cloned bank cards – entered a plea agreement with the state and has been slapped with a five-year jail term. A Cape Argus ...
A Randfontein serial rapist who pleaded guilty to all of his crimes has tried to argue the reason he raped or attempted to rape four women was because they reminded him of his sister. A Times Select report says Bongani ...
About 40 people have been killed, schools closed and livelihoods destroyed through ethnic violence in Kenya’s vast Marsabit County in recent months. Without decisive state intervention, the killings will probably continue. The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) notes that the ...
A group of seven Eastern Cape ‘in-laws’ accused of abducting and selling a girl (14) into forced marriage (ukuthwala) are on trial in the Butterworth Magistrate’s Court. A Daily Dispatch report says the seven members are her mother, her maternal ...
Chambers in the UK will be able to publish anonymised data about their members’ sexual orientation and religious beliefs without the unanimous consent of members following a successful application by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to the Legal Services Board. ...
Ghana’s parliamentary spokesperson Kate Addo has confirmed that plans for a new $200m debating chamber in Ghana have been shelved. This follows a wave of public anger since the proposal was put forward last month. BBC News reports that critics ...
A decision on the land restitution of District Six will be made ‘soon’ by the Land Claims Court, says a Cape Argus report. District Six Working Committee chairperson Shahied Ajam said: ‘We are patiently waiting for the Land Claim Court ...
The international editor of The New York Times has admitted he approved a job advert for African correspondents that contained cliched descriptions of the continent. It called for reporting from ‘the deserts of Sudan and the pirate seas of the ...
An Italian court has sentenced 24 people to life in prison for their involvement in Operation Condor, in which the dictatorships of six South American countries conspired to kidnap and assassinate political opponents in each other’s territories. According to a ...
The UN Security Council has called for a ceasefire in Libya as the death toll from a three-month offensive on Tripoli rises above 1 000. The council has condemned last week’s attack on the Tajoura detention camp east of Tripoli ...
Brazil’s Justice Minister, Sérgio Moro, has been granted a leave of absence following damaging leaks that have cast doubts over his impartiality as a judge in a sweeping graft scandal. According to a report in The Guardian, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s ...
Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier and former friend of the Duke of York, Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking. A report in The Daily Telegraph notes that Epstein is accused of paying ...
Labour union Solidarity has said it is confident that its complaint against members of Black First Land First (BLF) for alleged hate speech following the Hoërskool Driehoek disaster will be heard soon. The Mercury reports the matter is due to ...
Accusing the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality of wilfully ignoring a court order, law firm Gray Moodliar Inc has demanded that the 76 cases it had been working on be returned to the firm immediately. But The Herald reports as the ...
Carrie Lam, the Hong Kong leader, said yesterday that the extradition Bill that sparked the territory's biggest political crisis in decades was dead, admitting that the government's work on the Bill had been a ‘total failure’. A report in The ...
Chambers in the UK will be able to publish anonymised data about their members’ sexual orientation and religious beliefs without the unanimous consent of members following a successful application by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) to the Legal Services Board. ...
Marriott faces a $124m fine for failing to protect customer data, the second major penalty proposed this week by UK regulators under Europe's tough new privacy rules. The hotel chain said in a regulatory filing yesterday that Britain's Information Commissioner's ...
The UK is mired in a wild international crisis, most probably of its own making. This after scathing comments about US President Donald Trump made in leaked diplomatic cables by Britain's ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, were published in ...
South Africa’s largest mobile operators believe data prices could start falling once the government releases additional spectrum next month. But much will depend on the cost of the spectrum. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the state will begin the process after ...
Zimbabwean Qedindaba Arthur Dube – who pleaded guilty to several charges relating to the use of cloned bank cards – entered a plea agreement with the state and has been slapped with a five-year jail term. A Cape Argus report ...
British Airways (BA) faces a fine of more than £183m from the UK's data protection authority over a security lapse that exposed personal data belonging to about 500 000 customers to hackers last year. According to a report on the ...
The UK is mired in a wild international crisis, most probably of its own making. This after scathing comments about US President Donald Trump made in leaked diplomatic cables by Britain's ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, were published in ...
Marriott faces a $124m fine for failing to protect customer data, the second major penalty proposed this week by UK regulators under Europe's tough new privacy rules. The hotel chain said in a regulatory filing yesterday that Britain's Information Commissioner's ...
The Public Investment Corporation’s (PIC) former chief executive Dan Matjila should be investigated over allegations he did not declare the millions of rands he received from VBS Mutual Bank, says United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa. According to a ...
British Airways (BA) faces a fine of more than £183m from the UK's data protection authority over a security lapse that exposed personal data belonging to about 500 000 customers to hackers last year. According to a report on the ...
British Airways (BA) faces a fine of more than £183m from the UK's data protection authority over a security lapse that exposed personal data belonging to about 500 000 customers to hackers last year. According to a report on the ...