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Nigerian sex worker ring snared

European police have arrested six suspected members of a Spanish-based gang who trafficked Nigerian women for sex. BBC News reports that police say the group worked in at least 15 countries. The EU's police agency Europol said $3.4m in assets ...

Nigerian sex worker ring snared

European police have arrested six suspected members of a Spanish-based gang who trafficked Nigerian women for sex. BBC News reports that police say the group worked in at least 15 countries. The EU's police agency Europol said $3.4m in assets ...

Trade union official arrested in sting operation

Namibia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a trade unionist for alleged bribery. The Namibian reports that Sakeus Shikongo, who is a representative of the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union, is accused of requesting a $350 bribe from the manager of ...

Court blocks extended inheritance

Children born more than nine months after the death of their mother's late husbands are not entitled to inherit a share of the deceased’s property, Kenya’s High Court has ruled. Justice Lucy Gitari held that children cannot be regarded as ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Trade union official arrested in bribery 'sting'

Namibia’s Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested a trade unionist for alleged bribery. The Namibian reports that Sakeus Shikongo, who is a representative of the Namibian Food and Allied Workers Union, is accused of requesting a $350 bribe from the manager of ...

Bowmans to probe possible 'irregular' practices at Cell C

Cell C has asked law firm Bowmans to investigate business units possibly involved in 'irregular' practices after its debt rating was recently downgraded to reflect that a default had become a 'virtual certainty'. Shares in major shareholder Blue Label Telecoms ...

Another lawyer struck off roll over RAF funds

Yet another lawyer stands to see her career go down the drain for embezzling Road Accident Fund (RAF) money, says a report in The Star. Itumeleng Elizabeth Tlalang, a Pretoria-based attorney, has been struck off the roll by the Gauteng ...

The white lady and the 'black' bank

Mariette Venter was the acting CFO of the Capricorn municipality in Limpopo. The municipality was one of many which had loaned cash to VBS Mutual Bank. Venter recognised several red flags, demanded the money back and was suspended for her ...

Marriot Group to contest hefty data breach fine

Marriott International is to contest a UK regulator's plans to issue it with a £99.2m fine for an alleged breach of data protection laws. The hotels business disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday that the ...

World's commercial courts collaborate on money judgments

Commercial courts from around the world have set out their procedures for enforcing money judgments made by one another in a single document, intended to improve public perception and understanding of enforcement procedures according to Out-Law.com. The Multilateral Memorandum on ...

Kenya blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Money laundering threat addressed

Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) secretary Eliawony Kisanga believes the best way to curb money launderers and groups which finance terror networks is to disrupt their ability to raise, move and access money. Addressing a conference on ...

Money laundering threat addressed

Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) Secretary Eliawony Kisanga believes the best way to curb money launderers and groups which finance terror networks is to disrupt their ability to raise, move and access money. Addressing a conference on ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Government blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Government blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Kenya blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry last week said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without ...

Bowmans to probe possible 'irregular' practices at Cell C

Cell C has asked law firm Bowmans to investigate business units possibly involved in 'irregular' practices after its debt rating was recently downgraded to reflect that a default had become a 'virtual certainty'. Shares in major shareholder Blue Label Telecoms ...

Marriot Group to contest hefty data breach fine

Marriott International is to contest a UK regulator's plans to issue it with a £99.2m fine for an alleged breach of data protection laws. The hotels business last week disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the ...

Move to settle WhatsApp race case

The trial of Adam Catzavelos – the Johannesburg businessman who caused an uproar for using the K-word in a video – has been postponed to 29 August, says a TimesLIVE report. The defence made their submissions to the Randburg Magistrate's ...

EFF legal team to defend Twitter spat

A team of pro bono lawyers and volunteers is being put together by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to defend Ambassador Zindzi Mandela in the hate speech complaint AfriForum laid over her #OurLand tweets, says a News24 report. ‘I was asked by ...

Why Google monitors our conversations

It's not just Amazon's Alexa that is listening in on your commands –a new report from Dutch publication VRT NWS reveals that Google is also keeping an ear on our conversations. It claims the technology company hires independent contractors around ...

Expert questions UK gambling probe's efficacy

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 ...

Singapore to issue five new digital bank licences

Five new digital bank licences are to be issued to firms in Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced. A report on the Out-Law.com site notes that the five new digital bank licences include two types of bank ...

Trump forbidden to block Twitter followers while President

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled this week that President Donald Trump cannot selectively block followers of his Twitter with whom he disagrees. According to a Jurist report, the ruling affirmed a ...

Settlement bid in Greek beach race case

The trial of Adam Catzavelos – the Johannesburg businessman who caused an uproar for using the K-word in a video – has been postponed to 29 August, says a TimesLIVE report. The defence made their submissions to the Randburg Magistrate's ...

Expert questions UK gambling probe's efficacy

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 ...

Settlement bid in Greek beach race case

The trial of Adam Catzavelos – the Johannesburg businessman who caused an uproar for using the K-word in a video – has been postponed to 29 August, says a TimesLIVE report. The defence made their submissions to the Randburg Magistrate's ...

Senior judges back digitisation of UK courts

Senior British judges have enthusiastically backed progress on the modernisation of court processes, and sought to quell some of the misgivings about what the reforms mean in practice. Sir Terence Etherton, Master of the Rolls, told MPs he was an ...

Marriot Group to contest hefty data breach fine

Marriott International is to contest a UK regulator's plans to issue it with a £99.2m fine for an alleged breach of data protection laws. The hotels business disclosed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday that the ...

Fake Facebook 'marriage' hits a nerve in Nigeria

Four men in Nigeria's northern city of Kano have received death threats for planning a mock wedding on Facebook that was deemed offensive to Islam. This after Sanusi Abdullahi confessed to 'jokingly' offering a female Facebook member $50 for her ...

Fake Facebook 'marriage' hits a nerve in Nigeria

Four men in Nigeria's northern city of Kano have received death threats for planning a mock wedding on Facebook that was deemed offensive to Islam. This after Sanusi Abdullahi confessed to 'jokingly' offering a female Facebook member $50 for her ...

Bowmans to probe possible 'irregular' practices at Cell C

Cell C has asked law firm Bowmans to investigate business units possibly involved in 'irregular' practices after its debt rating was recently downgraded to reflect that a default had become a 'virtual certainty'. Shares in major shareholder Blue Label Telecoms ...

Facial ID tests awaited in local actor's murder case

The man accused of killing Matwetwe actor Sibusiso Khwinana still needs to undergo facial recognition tests to match him to the person in CCTV footage which police obtained, notes News24. Julius Lucas briefly appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court yesterday, ...

Landmark judgment allows live-streaming in court

The public and other interested parties attending court hearings will now be able to live-stream the proceedings after a ground-breaking judgment by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) yesterday. Until now, only recognised media houses could apply for the broadcasting and ...

EFF pro bono team to defend Zindzi Mandela

A team of pro bono lawyers and volunteers is being put together by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to defend Ambassador Zindzi Mandela in the hate speech complaint AfriForum laid over her #OurLand tweets, says a News24 report. ‘I was asked by ...

Kenya blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licences of 27 betting companies, including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Government blocks online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

EFF pro bono team to defend Zindzi Mandela

A team of pro bono lawyers and volunteers is being put together by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to defend Ambassador Zindzi Mandela in the hate speech complaint AfriForum laid over her #OurLand tweets, says a News24 report. ‘I was asked by ...

Landmark judgment allows live-streaming in court

The public and other interested parties attending court hearings will now be able to live-stream the proceedings after a ground-breaking judgment by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) on Thursday. Until now, only recognised media houses could apply for the broadcasting ...

Kenya bars online betting firms

Kenya's Interior Ministry yesterday said it has not renewed the licenses of 27 betting companies including the country's biggest, SportPesa. In a letter to telecoms company Safaricom, Nairobi said the companies have not met the 'outstanding renewal requirements' without elaborating. ...

Another lawyer struck off roll over RAF funds

Yet another lawyer stands to see her career go down the drain for embezzling Road Accident Fund (RAF) money, says a report in The Star. Itumeleng Elizabeth Tlalang, a Pretoria-based attorney, has been struck off the roll by the Gauteng ...

Durban metro interdicts pro-Gumede protesters

The eThekwini Municipality last night obtained an interim interdict to stop protesters supporting suspended Durban mayor Zandile Gumede from protesting and intimidating residents and municipal employees. The Mercury reports the order came after Gumede’s supporters caused mayhem as they marched ...

SA needs new nuclear plan after 2045 – Minister

Minerals & Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe has announced that SA needs to start planning now for new nuclear power capacity to come online after 2045, says a Business Day report. President Cyril Ramaphosa put nuclear expansion on the back burner ...

Details on NHI Bill expected today

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize will unpack the details of the approved National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill today. A Business Day report says Jackson Mthembu – Minister in the Presidency for planning, monitoring & evaluation – announced yesterday that the Cabinet ...

Landing approval not to gain favour – testimony

It appears the man who finally approved the clearance of the Guptas' Waterkloof flight may have done so to land a government job, says a TimesLIVE report. The man was seemingly trying to gain favour with former chief of state ...

'Rogue unit' saga gives Batohi toughest test yet

NPA boss Shamila Batohi will be faced with arguably her most politically fraught decision since taking office in February when she reviews the prosecution of SARS officials in the ‘rogue unit’ saga, says a Business Day report. The NPA has ...

MTN’s BEE scheme ‘flawed’ – commission

The B-BBEE commission has found that MTN’s scheme did not comply with the objectives of the empowerment Act, on the basis of a number of restrictions and limitations placed on the black shareholders. A Business Day report says the commission ...

Matjila denies 'forced marriage' BEE deal

Former Public Investment Corporation (PIC) CEO Dan Matjila has denied he forced two empowerment companies to merge so they could buy a stake in Total SA. The PIC ultimately funded the deal in 2015, notes a Business Day report on ...

We must strengthen SOE boards – Gordhan

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan says the boards of Eskom and other state-owned enterprises have to be strengthened technically and financially. In what a Business Day report describes as a dramatic day for the Minister, he told Parliament in his ...

Minister tells MPs there's affordable nuclear energy

SA will get nuclear energy at a cost the country can afford. That was the message of Minister of Mineral Resources & Energy Gwede Mantashe during his department's budget vote debate in Parliament yesterday, says a Fin24 report. ‘To say ...

EFF pro bono team to defend Zindzi Mandela

A team of pro bono lawyers and volunteers is being put together by Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to defend Ambassador Zindzi Mandela in the hate speech complaint AfriForum laid over her #OurLand tweets, says a News24 report. ‘I was asked by ...

My statement was based on fact – Kohler Barnard

After months of delays, the Equality Court has finally heard DA MP Dianne Kohler Barnard’s testimony in the unfair discrimination case laid against her, according to a Daily Maverick report. She told the court yesterday that the allegations labelling her ...

Mboweni warns against continued SOE bailouts

Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said government will soon cut support to struggling state-owned enterprises (SOEs), in what a Business Day report says could be seen as a first step towards privatisation. Ratings agencies have cited SOEs, including Eskom and SAA, ...

Army to be deployed in Western Cape – Minister

SA National Defence Force (SANDF) members will be deployed to the Western Cape’s worst-affected crime areas, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced yesterday during his his budget vote speech in Parliament. According to TimesLIVE, Cele said the deployment came about because ...