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Court battle: South African Predator Association is seeking an order to set aside minister’s failure to set export quotas.
ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT 71 OF 1962

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…

  • Sheree Bega
4 min read
Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota, who died at the age of 77. Photo: David Harrison
CONGRESS OF THE PEOPLE

Lekota’s son appointed estate curator as medical reports question his capacity

According to reports submitted to the court, Lekota, who died at the age of 77, suffered from chronic cerebrovascular which had significantly impaired his ability to make decisions

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
2 min read
What’s driving anti-immigrant healthcare blockades? Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human Rights says it’s everything from the sky-high cost of Zimbabwean passports and corruption to South Africa’s institutionalised xenophobia — and a growing global intolerance of migrants. (Bhekisisa team)
ASYLUM SEEKERS
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Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances

The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…

  • Tanya Pampalone
  • Mia Malan
  • Anna-Maria van Niekerk
  • Jessica Pitchford
  • Thatego Mashabela
8 min read
African penguins on Boulders beach, Simon’s Town. File photo
AFRICAN PENGUIN BREEDING COLONIES

High court will hear urgent case to save critically endangered African penguins

Outgoing minister accused of placing fishing industry interests above the survival of penguins

  • John Yeld
4 min read
Several non-profit organisations in Gauteng, including drug rehab centres, have had their funding cut after a forensic probe ordered by the Gauteng Department of Social Development. Graphic: Lisa Nelson
CHILD WELFARE TSHWANE

Gauteng non-profit organisations reject findings of province’s forensic probe

Six out of 13 drug rehabs previously funded by the Gauteng Social Development Department are now “under investigation”

  • Daniel Steyn
  • Masego Mafata
5 min read
Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramakgopa. (Theana Breugem/Foto24/Gallo Images)
DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE

State to fight new nuclear hurdle

This is the second nuclear challenge the government will be fighting after they lost against NGOs in 2017 This content is restricted to registered users and subscribers. Get Your…

  • Mandisa Makgakga
1 min read
Offshore oil and gas development in South Africa is governed, among others, by the National Environmental Management Act 107 of 1998, as amended in 2022, and the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act.
GAUTENG HIGH COURT

Karpowership shareholders to square up in court over R200bn gas deal

PowergroupSA accuses the Turkish company of trying to transfer its shares to another black economic empowerment company without sticking to their agreement

  • Mandisa Makgakga
4 min read
Candlelight Vigil For Corruption Fighter Babita Deokaran at the office of the Premier on August 26, 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Babita Deokaran, who was the chief director of financial accounting in the Gauteng Department of Health, was shot and killed in what investigators believed was a targeted hit. Deokoran was a whistleblower and key witness in the Special Investigating Unit’s key witness against PPE corruption in the Gauteng Department of Health. (Photo by Gallo Images/Fani Mahuntsi)
BABITA DEOKARAN

Babita Deokaran’s killers plead guilty, sentenced to six to 22 years

All six men, who appeared in the Johannesburg high court on Tuesday, agreed to a plea deal

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
1 min read