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Between a rock and a hard place: By accepting the brief from white firms to fight the Legal Sector Code,
Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi will oppose collective black legal empowerment, the writer posits.

Is Ngcukaitobi being set up against black empowerment?

The Bar will invoke the cab-rank rule, which generally requires counsel to accept a brief in a field where they practise, even when they dislike the client or cause. Yet the rule…

Outgoing national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

‘Gupta lieutenants are in court, Batohi says on her last day in office

The outgoing national director of public prosecutions said her successor should fight for more institutional independence and for competitive salaries to attract high profile…

Hot seat: National Director of
Public Prosecutions Shamila
Batohi at the Nkabinde
Commission. Photo: National
Prosecuting Authority

Batohi exits NPA on a sour note

While the national director of public prosecutions’s conduct at the Nkabinde inquiry has tarnished her legacy, she remains the first person in the post to complete a full term of…

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

Batohi walks out of Nkabinde inquiry

Panel members at the Nkabinde inquiry said the national director of public prosecutions was undermining the inquiry she herself had insisted upon

Outgoing national director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Batohi’s performance as NPA head questioned over handling of Cato Manor unit

The national director of public prosecutions defended herself against criticism, saying she had delegated the matter to her subordinate

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

Batohi never investigated Cato Manor unit, says Ncqukaitobi

The national director of public prosecutions said she established a panel to look into the human rights abuses linked to the Durban police unit

Sloppy drafting: Tembeka Ngcukaitobi asked if the NPA thought Andrew
Chauke erred in charging Johan Booysen. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Batohi under fire

NPA boss defended her decisions while conceding documentation oversights, which she said should not constrain the inquiry

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Ngcukaitobi grills Batohi on disciplinary action against South Gauteng prosecuting head Andrew Chauke

Ngcukaitobi accused the national director of public prosecutions of punishing Chauke for doing his job

South Africa’s economy expanded by 0.8% during the second quarter of 2025, following a marginal increase of 0.1% during the first quarter.

Competition Competition has no evidence of rand manipulation, banks say

The commission says the case highlights the difficulty of prosecuting global and domestic cartels that exploit legal loopholes to delay proceedings

Skin in the game: President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a legal bid by the EFF to force parliament to impeach him over the Phala Phala scandal. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

EFF case brings back the spectre, and strangeness, of Phala Phala

Judges ask the president’s and the National Assembly’s counsel if parliament threw the baby out with the bathwater

In its new report, Freedom Under Law says the caseload of the apex court has tripled, leading to delayed judgments that negatively affect public confidence in the judiciary
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Judicial Service Commission hears plea for judicial rethink on land reform

Judge Susannah Cowen said South Africa was waiting for land justice and the constitutional court should lead the way

Court torture ruling shows up Mogoeng’s true colours

Electoral commission tells concourt all Zuma’s arguments against ineligibility are wrong

The hearing of the IEC’s appeal to the electoral court’s finding that Zuma was eligible for parliament saw a tense exchange between counsel and the bench

The supreme court of appeal on Wednesday upheld the state’s appeal to the controversial acquittal of a paramedic accused of raping his girlfriend in the case of S v Coko.

State wins its appeal of controversial Coko rape ruling

The supreme court of appeal confirms stringent standard for consent as defence in rape cases

Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Supplied

Electoral court finds Zuma eligible to participate in elections

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Former South African and ANC president, Jacob Zuma. (MKP/X)

Court to rule on Jacob Zuma’s election eligibility today

Zuma says he can again be president because he did not serve two full terms

‘Spare no one’: Israel has declared a war of attrition, of annihilation, in Gaza, and its leaders have invoked not only the Book of Samuel but also the Crusades. Civilians, even children, are killed in the war that includes starvation as a weapon. Photo: Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images

God edition: Where is God in the Gaza war?

The Israeli invasion is also a battle between religion and law with no certain outcome

The Western Cape high court has upheld the sanctions meted out against Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema and five other party members after they were found guilty of contempt of parliament. (Photo by Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

No SONA for Malema and crew as high court dismisses application

Floyd Shivambu and Marshall Dlamini are also among the senior members who will not be able to attend, the result of their storming the stage at SONA 2023 This content is…

People gather around the bodies of the Salah and Abu Hatab families, killed when the tent where they were sheltering was hit by Israeli bombardment, at the morgue of the Nasser medical centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 4, 2024, as battles between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants continue. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Countries called to support SA’s genocide case against Israel

Turkey and Malaysia have already backed the application, which the US has deemed ‘meritless, counterproductive and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever’ This content…

The Economic Freedom Fighters want to subpoena Ramaphosa to testify about whether he felt threatened when its members jumped onto the stage during his State of the Nation address in February. (Photo by Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

EFF MPs walk out of parliament’s disciplinary hearing citing an unfair process

The Economic Freedom Fighters want to subpoena Ramaphosa to testify about whether he felt threatened when its members jumped onto the stage during his State of the Nation address…

Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers his keynote address at Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans event.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Tembeka Ngcukaitobi’s keynote address ignores some facts

The advocate’s speech on inequality, apartheid, the ANC and optimism at the M&G’s 200 Young South Africans event is wanting in a number of aspects