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Eastern Cape judge president, Selby Mbenenge. (Judges Matter)

Mbenenge fights JSC bid to recommend that Parliament impeach him

The Eastern Cape judge president says the Judicial Service Commission ruling that he committed gross misconduct is irrational and procedurally flawed

Black Business Council accuses top law firms of resisting transformation over Legal Sector Code challenge

A legal battle over South Africa’s Legal Sector Code has reignited debate over transformation, ownership targets and procurement rules in the legal profession

Court battle:  South African Predator Association is seeking an order to set aside minister’s failure to set export quotas.

Legal fight deepens over lion bone trade

The NSPCA and EMS Foundation have been admitted as intervening respondents in a High Court case that could determine whether the Minister is legally required to set export quotas…

Former National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi. Photo:   X

MK bid to block Batohi pension tests limits of presidential power

The North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria has reserved judgment in the MK Party’s urgent application to block Shamila Batohi’s pension, after hearing arguments on urgency and the…

Rejecting Fannie Nkosi’s request, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria said the prison’s hospital wing was reserved only for inmates requiring medical care. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Judge hands down ruling three years late

For most of that time there was no record in the official report that tracks late judgments

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Ramaphosa says decision to sign NHI Bill was politically sensitive

This rendered it immune to high court review, he argues in an application for leave to appeal an order to hand over the reasons for his decision

Minister of Labour and Employment Nomakhosazana Meth. (File photo)

New equity targets are constitutional, counsel for labour minister tells court

The ministry sought to counter the DA’s argument that the targets amount to unfair discrimination

A woman buys lottery tickets at a street seller. File photo

Luxury properties seized in new Lottery corruption crackdown

Luxury homes, a farm and an upmarket car have been frozen as part of the ongoing investigation

Justice ministry stands by its opposition to constitutional challenge to Sexual Offences Act

Justice ministry stands by its opposition to constitutional challenge to Sexual Offences Act

The applicants asked for the definition of consent in the Act to be declared unconstitutional

DA leader John Steenhuisen.Photo: Michele Spatari/AFP

High court hands DA a humiliating defeat on cadre deployment

The opposition’s constitutional challenge on the ANC’s cadre deployment was spun out of conjecture and speculation, a full bench found This content is restricted to registered…

Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni. (Deon Raath/Rapport/Gallo Images)

Dudu Myeni in court on Bosasa corruption charges

The Hawks arrested the former SAA board chairperson and Sondolo IT director Trevor Mathenjwa on Friday in connection with security upgrades and travel gratifications she…

Mncube’s phone was confiscated when he was arrested in 2015 in a separate case relating to taxi violence in Alexandra in Johannesburg.  (Photo by Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)

Meyiwa trial: Defence wants all photos downloaded from accused’s phone

Defence lawyers say they cannot proceed without the photographs, while state prosecutor George Baloyi is against the trial not continuing

A police van patrols in front of the house where Senzo Meyiwa was murdered. (MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Defence argues that photos were missing from the Senzo Meyiwa crime scene exhibits

State witness, forensic officer Thabo Mosia, who was recalled to the stand, said he only took eight pictures as he had problems with his camera

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the late former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe’s son, was arrested for attempted murder on Thursday after a shooting at his Hyde Park residence

Gun that may have killed Senzo Meyiwa was stolen during a cash-in-transit heist

State witness and sangoma Lionel Robert Zwane told the Pretoria high court that three men came to ask for herbs before going on ‘a job’

The five people on trial — Ncube, Bongani Ntanzi, Mthokozisi Maphisa, Muzikawukhulelwa Sibiya and Fisokuhle Ntuli — have pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, illegal possession of a firearm and the illegal possession of ammunition. (Gallo Images/OJ Koloti)

Meyiwa trial: Ballistics expert says gun found at accused’s home matches bullet at crime scene

Lieutenant Colonel Christian Mangena’s reconstruction of the scene showed that two shots were fired in the house where the football player was killed

Why does HIV kill more men than women?

Activists welcome move to allow pharmacies to prescribe HIV, TB treatment

They say the ruling is in line with global trends

Senzo Meyiwa.  (Getty Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Gun could have been swopped, defence argues

State witness Captain Bongani Mtshali says the only time the gun would have been in an unsealed bag was at the ballistics centre

Senzo Meyiwa. File photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Meyiwa trial: Defence wants forensic witness back in the stand

Defence attorneys say there are discrepancies in the list of cases that officer Thabo Mosia attended to on the night the footballer was murdered

Senzo Meyiwa.  (Getty Images)

Meyiwa trial: No fingerprints on door

Defence advocate Zandile Mshololo reiterated the assertion that the bullet found in the kitchen was planted

Former Bafana Bafana goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa. (Photo by Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Senzo Meyiwa trial: Defence argues ballistic evidence was planted

The forensics expert who is responsible for crime scene management testified that police handled evidence according to procedure