New NDPP Shamila Batohi told Parliament yesterday that the NPA faced a ‘massive credibility challenge’ and was ‘seriously divided’. She also said there is not enough money to pay all of the NPA’s salaries this financial year and staff will ...
A Khartoum court has ordered the Internet to be restored, five weeks after it was shut down by Sudan's ruling military council. The move comes several days after the country's military leaders reached an agreement with the opposition alliance to ...
Ethiopia will send 50 000 people to work in the UAE, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has confirmed as the Gulf nation looks to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa. ‘Ethiopia is planning short-term measures to reduce unemployment in ...
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has spoken the last word over the five-year legal battle regarding two monopole gantries in the east of Pretoria – they must once and for all be removed. A Pretoria News report says the City ...
There are no signs the Constitutional Court is preparing to deliver judgment in the case between Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and the SA Reserve Bank (SARB) in the Absa-Bankorp lifeboat matter. Arguments were heard in November last year, almost eight ...
A Khartoum court has ordered the Internet to be restored, five weeks after it was shut down by Sudan's ruling military council. The move comes several days after the country's military leaders reached an agreement with the opposition alliance to ...
Parliament has called on Communications Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams to continue talking to the SABC and the National Treasury to secure a R3.2bn bailout for the public broadcaster, says a report in The Star. Ndabeni-Abrahams has been under pressure since it ...
The National Health Care Practitioners Association (NHCPA) has led a charge of racial profiling against medical aids and administrators, but not before they took 19 medical aids to court – and lost, according to a Times Select report. In their ...
Acting head of the Treasury’s budget office Ian Stuart believes the government’s fiscal hole is deepening as SA’s economy is struggling to grow, which could cost SA its final investment-grade rating. A Business Day report notes Moody’s Investors Service – ...
Deloitte has defended its auditing work on African Bank, saying there was nothing wrong in the way the rescued lender calculated how much it needed to put aside to cover potential customer defaults. A Business Day report notes African Bank ...
The legal battle between Kubentheran Moodley – the former adviser of then Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane – and the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture was referred to another judge to allow both parties to submit additional court ...
Outa has announced it is willing to help government resolve the e-tolls impasse following a social media spat between Finance Minister Tito Mboweni and Gauteng Premier David Makhura over the province's decision to reject e-tolls. According to a Polity report, ...
Former Public Investment Corporation (PIC) CEO Dan Matjila revealed yesterday he was subjected to immense pressure to finance the business ventures of senior politicians and other influential people during his time at the helm of the state-owned asset manager. ‘Throughout ...
The Reserve Bank’s remaining deputy governor, Kuben Naidoo, has defended its independence and insisted that policymakers take growth and employment levels into account when setting interest rates. Business Day reports he was speaking a week before a monetary policy committee ...
Despite the view that many beleaguered parastatals are beyond redemption, it would be unconscionable to expect black professionals to withhold their skills and knowledge by refusing to lead them, according to newly-appointed Business Leadership SA (BLSA) CEO, Busisiwe Mavuso. Mavuso ...
Staff at state-owned arms manufacturer Denel learned yesterday that the cash-strapped company has paid their salaries, but not their pension contributions. In a letter sent out by the ‘Denel retirement fund’, the fund said workers would not be able to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 SCA has ruled that a Northern Cape family has a right to bury a relative on a farm the deceased did not live on, notes a TimesLIVE report. Madgelena de Wee was buried two years ago after the Land ...
The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the Western Cape has declined to prosecute GOOD leader and Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille over two complaints about renovations at her home and an alleged attempt to solicit a bribe. The ...
* Zimbabwe owes airlines about $196m that’s stuck in the country due to a shortage of hard currency, according to the International Air Transport Association. The last payment received by the industry body was in January. The group held a ...
South Africa is in dire need of a competent state with ‘true leaders’ at the helm, says former deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. This is a key remedy for a myriad social ills, including plundering of the public purse, dysfunctional ...
Four of Parliament’s committee chairs have been accused of significant ethical violations over the past three years, but only one investigation into those alleged breaches has been finalised. In addition, there is no certainty when any of the other probes ...
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An Indian court has denied Naresh Goyal, founder of India’s once largest airline by market value, permission to fly overseas after the government told the court a $2.6bn fraud investigation involving Jet Airways India is underway. A Fin24 report notes ...
Funds spent on former President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla home is part of the R14.7bn target of a special tribunal that aims to recoup state capture losses. Die Burger reports that Special Investigations Unit head Andy Mothibi told the National Assembly’s ...
Deloitte has defended its auditing work on African Bank, saying there was nothing wrong in the way the rescued lender calculated how much it needed to put aside to cover potential customer defaults. A Business Day report notes African Bank ...
* Judgment in the case of a registered tax practitioner, Heidi Williams, and her co-accused husband Daoud Cisse – who are both facing 1 656 fraud charges – has been delayed after the couple failed to appear at the Cape ...
In the first major reverse of the state capture project that brazenly played out in the Zuma years, NDPP Shamila Batohi has withdrawn racketeering charges against former KZN Hawks head General Johan Booysen and others, notes Legalbrief. The decision to ...
Global firm Norton Rose Fulbright has formed a legal operations consultancy for in-house lawyers, led by a former Barclays MD. According to a Law Gazette report, Stéphanie Hamon will head the practice, which will give management and operational advice to ...
A new inquiry focused on gambling-related harm and protections for consumers has been opened by a group of UK law makers. According to a report on the Out-Law.com site, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Social and Economic ...
West Africa suffers the most wealth inequality on the continent, a report by Oxfam and Development Finance International has revealed. The ‘West Africa Inequality Crisis’ report notes that six of the 10 fastest-growing economies are in West Africa, with Ivory ...
West Africa suffers the most wealth inequality on the continent, a report by Oxfam and Development Finance International has revealed. The ‘West Africa Inequality Crisis’ report notes that six of the 10 fastest-growing economies are in West Africa, with Ivory ...
Ethiopia will send 50 000 people to work in the UAE, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has confirmed as the Gulf nation looks to expand its influence in the Horn of Africa. ‘Ethiopia is planning short-term measures to reduce unemployment in ...
The vice-president of the Burundian Football Association has been arrested over the alleged disappearance of bonus money for the national team players who competed in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) tournament in Egypt. BBC News reports that Aimable Habimana ...
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan yesterday filed court papers in an urgent bid to interdict remedial actions in a report released by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane on Friday. The papers which were filed in the North Gauteng High Court are ...
Money spent on the Nkandla home of former President Jacob Zuma is part of the R14.7bn target of a special tribunal that aims to recoup state capture losses. According to a report in Die Burger, Special Investigations Unit (SIU) head ...