Members of the crime-fighting unit have again been accused of unethical practices.
In a major public rebuke, President Jacob Zuma has told his prosecutions boss, Menzi Simelane, to stop his controversial restructuring of the NPA.
Right-wing whites believe South Africa’s long-awaited racial civil war is finally imminent.
The Cape High Court found that the JSC was not properly constituted when it heard the complaint because it excluded Zille, the plaintiff in the case.
A poor teenage farmworker, one of two
accused of the murder of Eugene Terre’Blanche,
is a test case for the new Child Justice Act.
But the jury is out on whether journalists should be allowed access to the AWB leader’s murder trial, reports Glynnis Underhill.
Child law experts explain to Glynnis Underhill how the new Child Justice Act is geared towards rehabilitating youngsters who have strayed.
Members of the legal fraternity are eagerly waiting to see if John Hlophe recommends the JSC re-advertises four vacancies on the Cape Bench.
Afrikaner rights bodies and the ANC trade tit-for-tat allegations over utterances inflaming "racial polarisation".
The R6-billion figure emerged from a government answer to a Democratic Alliance question in Parliament last week.