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‘I smell a very big, dirty rat here’

The Nkobi family has instructed its lawyers to investigate the <i>M&G</i>’s report last week that the Nkobi family is a shareholder of Nkobi Holdings.

Shaik arms-deal link deepens

The brother of the defence secretariat’s chief of acquisition has been a director, since 1996, of a company awarded contracts worth R400-million.

Top lawyer defends charges over fees

A top office-holder of the Law Society of South Africa has been accused of sitting on some clients’ road accident pay-outs.

IFP whistle-blower was ‘set up’

The plot has thickened in the extraordinary saga of the businessman who accused the IFP of milking provincial coffers. Mungo Soggot reports.

Lawyers rattled after court raid on Cape firm

The legal industry around road accidents may be headed for the shake-up it has worked to avoid, writes Mungo Soggot.

Secret Mandela offer overturned by ANC

A compromise offer to review the use of bar-coded identity documents in the election was quashed by the ANC.

McNally banished to Pretoria

In the two months since his appointment, Bulelani Ngcuka has effected dramatic changes in South Africa’s criminal justice system.

McNally abandons IFP prosecution

A major corruption probe in KwaZulu-Natal took a bizarre twist this week when Attorney General Tim McNally abandoned prosecution of IFP.

State to halt legal aid for ‘third force’

If Eugene de Kock were to be tried now, taxpayers would not have to face footing his legal bills, reports Mungo Soggot.

Legal aid clause triggers flood of applications

A board official said this week that the board had accepted 115 000 out of about 125 000 applications in the 12 months to March.