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MisuZulu kaZwelithini. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images
AUDITOR GENERAL SOUTH AFRICA

Ingonyama Trust Board may drop residential lease appeal

The board is also considering closing Ingonyama Holdings

  • Paddy Harper
3 min read
Tricky: Chief Justice Raymond Zondo hands President Cyril Ramaphosa the State Capture Report, which contains 353 recommendations on criminal sanction. (Ntswe Mokoena)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Many of Zondo’s state capture recommendations are a political problem for Ramaphosa

The president’s compromise on what state capture recommendations can be implemented was expected

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
Photo by Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
AARON MOTSOALEDI

National Assembly passes controversial electoral amendment bill amid protests from opposition parties

The bill will introduce an untested electoral system allowing independent candidates to stand for parliament but is seen as a missed opportunity to ensure greater political…

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Suspended Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Photo by Gallo Images/Lefty Shivambu)
ACE MAGASHULE

Mkhwebane did SSA’s bidding on Bankorp-CIEX report, MPs hear

The directive in the report that the mandate of the Reserve Bank be changed was dictated to the public protector by intelligence officials, a suspended employee testified

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa.
ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE RAYMOND ZONDO

And then there were six: Ramaphosa fails to release shortlist for chief justice

The appointment of the Pillay shortlist panel was designed to ensure greater transparency in the appointment of a successor to Mogoeng Mogoeng but commentators are not overly…

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Judges Matter)
ALAN DODSON

JSC lets politics trump conscience and excellence

The sense that the commissioners who nominated five candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court voted for their constituencies, rather than with their conscience, is…

  • Niren Tolsi
11 min read
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 (Renata Larroyd)
ALAN DODSON

Casac demands record of deliberations on ConCourt candidates

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution again has reservations about how the JSC selected the five names forwarded to the president, after it forced a…

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have called for members of the judiciary to undergo lifestyle audits.
BASHIER VALLY

JSC interviews for ConCourt, round two: better process, same outcome

Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo protected the integrity of the process after it descended into politicking in April

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Former Ingonyama Trust Board chairman, Jerome Ngwenya. Photo: David Harrison
CASAC

Ingonyama Trust’s Ngwenya cannot act on ‘frolic of his own’

Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe has withdrawn his urgent interdict to try to stop parliament from implementing recommendations by the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) that he be impeached. (Nelius Rademan/Gallo Images/ Foto24)
BOISSIE MBHA

Hlophe asks high court to stay his impeachment and overrule JSC

The embattled Western Cape Judge President is also seeking to interdict the president from suspending him while he challenges the Judicial Service Commission’s gross misconduct…

  • Emsie Ferreira
5 min read
Caught in the crossfire: Judge Dhayanithie Pillay was one of the candidates interviewed y the JSC in April to flll two vacancies at the Constitutional Court, although she did not make the shortlist. Photo: Paul Botes
CASAC

High court calls meeting on bid to halt ConCourt appointments

Casac has launched an unprecedented bid to have the politics-laden interview process to fill vacancies at the apex court started from scratch

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CASAC

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
All rests in the hands of Acting Chief Justice Sisi Khampepe, who, as the acting chairperson of the JSC, decides how to respond to Casac’s papers.
BASHIER VALLY

Bid to halt ConCourt appointments puts Khampepe and Ramaphosa on the spot

The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution argues that politicking tainted the Judicial Service Commission’s selection process

  • Emsie Ferreira
5 min read
Prayer time: Members of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk synod pray with Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. He has appealed a ruling by the Judicial Conduct Committee that he ventured into politics when he questioned South Africa’s policy on Israel. Photo: Deaan Vivier/Media24
CASAC

Mogoeng: God, Israel or fatigue?

The chief justice has effectively vacated office five months early as he appeals an adverse finding on his pro-Israel stance and faces criticism from the legal fraternity over…

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
CASAC

‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’

Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)
CASAC

Zondo argues for more time for state capture commission

But Casac says this should be the final extension granted

  • Franny Rabkin
4 min read