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Going home: EFF leader Julius Malema surrounded by family and friends outside the KuGompo City regional court yesterday. Photo: EFF
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Malema avoids jail for now

The EFF leader will appeal his five-year prison sentence after a court upheld his conviction for firing a rifle at a political rally, while granting leave to challenge the…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Mandisa Makgakga
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Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Groups appeal Karpowership environmental nod for Richards Bay

This comes as Karpowership secures authorisation for Saldanha Bay project This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your Free Account The Mail &…

  • Sheree Bega
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ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula.
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Transport ministry to appeal Aarto Act driver demerit system ruling

Minister Fikile Mbalula says motorists’ behaviour will change with disincentives for ‘unbecoming conduct’, but Outa and AA say the legislation was carelessly drafted

  • Anathi Madubela
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Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe after its liberation but became its oppressor. Photo: Archive
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Court orders that Mugabe’s body be exhumed and reburied in Harare

Zimbabwean court dismisses appeal by former president Mugabe’s three children

  • Chris Gilili
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Suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule claims that his intended suspension of the party’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was lawful.
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Magashule claims his suspension of Ramaphosa was lawful

In his application for leave to appeal the high court judgment, Magashule argues that the court erred in holding that Ramaphosa’s suspension was not lawful without giving any…

  • Lizeka Tandwa
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Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma applied for leave to appeal on 4 January, raising fears in the tobacco industry of a second ban as Covid-19 infections soared in the second wave of the pandemic.
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Tobacco ban case set to continue on 15 February

In two weeks the co-operative governance minister will continue her fight against Batsa after the tobacco ban was found to be was unconstitutional

  • Emma Balfour
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An appeal against the Khosa judgment on police brutality seems imminent after Police Minister Bheki Cele tried to do a deal with the Khosa family through their lawyers — asking them to abandon a crucial part of the court order in exchange for an expedited appeal process. (David Harrison/M&G)
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Appeal to Khosa judgment imminent as family rejects police minister’s deal

The family of Collins Khosa is threatening to seek a personal costs order against Police Minister Bheki Cele

  • Franny Rabkin
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