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Power struggle: Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala alleges he was caught in infighting between former police minister
Bheki Cele and his successor, suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu. Photo: GCIS

Matlala attempted murder trial to run until 18 September

The high-profile attempted murder trial of businessman and alleged underworld figure Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala and his four co-accused, including his wife, is scheduled for 30 court…

Suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

EMPD deputy chief Mkhwanazi and Witness K bail hearing set for Wednesday

Suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi and a Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department inspector, known as Witness K, are due…

Brown Mogotsi Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Mogotsi denied bail again as court rejects ‘new facts’

North West businessman Brown Mogotsi will remain behind bars after the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court found that evidence presented in his second bail application amounted to a…

Murder-accused and alleged leader of the Big Five cartel Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala. (EFF/X)

Cat Matlala’s attempted murder case faces further postponement

Businessman and alleged Big Five cartel leader Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala's attempted murder case faces further delays as the defence requests multiple postponements. Matlala and his…

Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief, Julius Malema. Photo: @EFFSouthAfrica

I will never retreat from my ideas,” Malema says as sentencing is postponed to April

The EFF leader told supporters he would not abandon his ideas

Former president Edgar Lungu’s body is still in South Africa because of a row between Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema and the Lunga family over where he should be buried. Photo: File

Zambia: Missed opportunities in the feud over Edgar Lungu’s burial

If President Hakainde Hichilema cannot manage a funeral, how can he manage a country?

Car pool: When Toyota’s vehicle assembly plant in Durban flooded in 2022, the car maker’s insurer took the municipality to court. Photo: File

Flood damage: An act of God or governance failure?

Everyone remembers April 2022, when torrential rains pummelled KwaZulu-Natal and flood­waters ravaged homes, roads and factories. Lives were lost, families were displaced and…

The policy prohibits consensual sexual intimacy in court buildings and discourages romantic relationships between members of the judiciary.

Justice delayed, grief denied: When the courts fail the bereaved

The case is postponed and delayed for numerous reasons, which means we are fighting to be heard

When a person dies intestate then conflict, distress and litigation can arise.

No Will. No clarity. Plenty heartache

Legal and emotional complications arise when someone dies without a will and no clear evidence of ‘life partnership’

DA leader John Steenhuisen.
(Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

DA must navigate coalition politics rather than divide the GNU and South Africa

The Democratic Alliance’s rush to court over debates it has lost such as employment equity is an abuse of the law

The court can step in and help protect the interests of vulnerable people like older people with conditions such as dementia. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images

Curatorship: A cause of or cure for conflict?

The court can step in and help protect the interests of vulnerable people like older people with conditions such as dementia.

US President Donald Trump. (File photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump could run for president from behind bars

The United States Constitution does not prevent him from contending the elections and the majority of Republicans continue to support him

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Zuma’s charges against Downer and Maughn to be heard in 2023

But both advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan have brought applications, to be heard in December, to have the case thrown out as an abuse of process

Despite a high court ruling removing unlawfully-elected ANC mayor Dada Morero, the ANC still managed to score itself five new Johannesburg council chairperson positions on Thursday as it cemented its new-found strength in the city. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Disgruntled members threaten to overturn results of Mpumalanga ANC conference, set to run over weekend

Members have accused the ANC’s national working committee of punching above its weight when it dissolved the Mpumalanga provincial executive committee and installed a task team…

Telkom said on Wednesday it had terminated discussions relating to Rain’s proposal for a potential acquisition for newly issued shares in Telkom.

Telkom continues with lawsuit despite spending more than R2-billion on spectrum

The telecoms company says the court’s findings may affect the recent spectrum auction and its outcome

(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Local elections: More than 800 ANC candidate disputes remain unresolved

Candidate court challenges loom for ANC

The former spy boss responded to being incriminated at the Zondo commission by threatening to expose the president. (Paul Botes)

Fraser vs Nxele in court — again

The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart

ANC’s Danny Msiza ordered to step aside or face suspension

The party’s deputy secretary general said the step-aside resolution must be applied without deviation

The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

IEC to ask the courts to postpone local elections

The chairperson of the Electoral Commission of South Africa said the Moseneke inquiry found that the elections would not be free and fair if held in October

Dr Sabine Grein, a biochemist at Germany’s State Office of Criminal Investigation. (Photo: Frank Molter/dpa)

Forensic science: The danger of relying on a single piece of evidence

Is the evidence used to convict criminals always based on sufficient facts or data? Leletu Tonisi from the Wits Justice Project examines some of the flaws in the system