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ANC Eastern Cape conference indefinitely postponed amid court disputes and internal divisions

The ANC has postponed its Eastern Cape provincial conference indefinitely, leaving leadership battles and court disputes unresolved

Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota, who died at the age of 77. Photo: David Harrison

Lekota’s estranged wife fights partner for estate after more than R2 million withdrawn

Mosiuoa Lekota’s partner, Luzelle Adams, sent herself R150 000 and her lawyers R250 000 after son was court-appointed estate curator

The proposed 4 000MW project would be built at Duynefontein next to the existing Koeberg  nuclear power station near Cape Town.
Photo: David Harrison

‘Zombie’ nuclear project: Nuclear-1  environmental authorisation faces legal battle

Environmental justice organisations have launched a high court challenge against Eskom’s proposed Nuclear-1 power station, arguing that the 2017 environmental authorisation,…

Nabbed: A Zimbabwean national caught with goods at an informal
crossing point along the South Africa–Zimbabwe border.

Smuggled birth control pills in demand

Female migrants cite barriers to accessing local healthcare facilities

Eastern Cape judge president Selby Mbenenge. (Office of the Chief Justice/ S Lioners)

Will judiciary sexual harassment policy change court culture?

While regarded as a bold step, questions remained about whether judges and magistrates will embrace its implementation

Suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu.

Concourt reserves judgment on MK party’s challenge to Ramaphosa suspending police minister

The party argued that the president’s placing Senzo Mchunu on special leave and appointing Firoz Cachalia, who was not a member of the cabinet, as acting minister was…

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge. (Nelius Rademan/ Foto24/Gallo Images)

Judge president’s emoji expert disputes accuser’s claims

The defence focused on challenging the sexual harassment allegations, arguing Selby Mbenenge’s interactions with former court secretary Andiswa Mengo were consensual

French arms company Thales has lodged an application in the Pietermaritzburg high court for full acquittal in the arms deal case in which it faces corruption and racketeering charges

Arms deal case: Thales files application to have charges dropped

The French arms company says the death of two key defence witnesses has hurt its case

In KwaZulu-Natal, the votes of next week’s by-election will be a test of whether the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is able to consolidate — at local government level — the electoral gains made on 29 May, when it took 45% of the vote in the province. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Zuma candidacy case hints at electoral court weaknesses

The treasury has not allocated additional resources to the court to deal with the likely increase in workload relating to the 2024 election

Load-shedding is unlikely through the winter.

City Power goes ahead with plan to separate Joburg residents from hospital electricity networks

Some residents in Soweto and Brixton have asked the City of Johannesburg to leave their areas on the network for health reasons

The persistence of corporal punishment has often been attributed to a lack of support for the ban among teachers. (Delwyn Verasamy, MG)

Harsher sanctions sought against teachers who use corporal punishment 

Section27 has asked the South African Council of Educators to amend its mandatory sanctions policy to include rehabilitative and corrective measures for teachers who assault…

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have called for members of the judiciary to undergo lifestyle audits.

Biowatch betrayal denies justice

The unsettling reality of Biowatch principle neglect in lower courts imperils the constitutional integrity of South Africa

A photograph shows collected cough syrups in Banjul on October 06, 2022. – Indian authorities are investigating cough syrups made by a local pharmaceutical company after the World Health Organisation said they could be responsible for the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia. (Photo by MILAN BERCKMANS / AFP) (Photo by MILAN BERCKMANS/AFP via Getty Images)

Gambia trial opens over children’s cough syrup deaths

The death of about 70 children in 2022 led to a national outcry

Alison Botha in 1999. (Sunday Times/Gallo)

Man who helped Alison Botha after violent 1994 rape, says paroled assailants cannot be rehabilitated

Tiaan Eilerd has said the government must be held responsible when it releases an offender who goes on to commit murder or rape

Eskom has announced a staggering loss of R23.9 billion for the financial year ended March 2023. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images)

Eskom: interdicting necessary tariff hike will be catastrophic for the country

Power utility says the high court challenge to the increase is flawed in law, and could mean more load-shedding, or worse, a credit default

Eskom’s financial situation renders it unable to service utilities from its own revenue. Over R200 billion of the utility’s debt has been considered distressed debt — which must be paid back with urgency — by Eskom chief financial officer Calib Cassim.

Is Nersa really to blame for Eskom’s mess?

Political parties and NGOs will be taking Nersa and Eskom to court for granting the utility an 18.65% tariff hike

Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)

Apartheid-era high court boundaries to shift

The boundaries and jurisdictions of high courts in Transkei Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei have never been changed

Protestors  at the Waterfront waiting the arrival of  the Amazon Warrior . They are against the planned Shell seismic survey for oil and gas in the ocean on November 21, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa.  It is reported that Shell has announced that it will carry out a three-dimensional seismic survey in search of oil and gas deposits from Morgan Bay to Port St Johns off the Wild Coast. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

OPINION| Due diligence needs to be more than a box-ticking exercise

Voluntarism is not enough to ensure that transnational companies such as Shell consult people likely to be affected by their proposed activities

South Africa has made strides in ensuring access to primary school education for children despite their socio-economic status or geographic location, according to a global study. (Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

‘Tough love’ budget cuts are toughest on the poorest learners

Many learners in the Eastern Cape have not received stationery and textbooks because of budget shortfalls

Head of local government, environmental affairs and development planning Anton Bredell says judgment contains ‘number of errors’

Right of reply: Kwet is wrong about Amazon’s new Cape Town HQ

A court application to halt the River Club development has been opposed by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, the City of Cape Town and First Nations leaders