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Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has financially backed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Sona. (GCIS)

Godongwana financially backs Ramaphosa’s tough talk on crime

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has signalled increased spending on peace and security in his budget speech from R268.2 billion in 2025/26 to R291.2 billion in 2028/29. The…

Rejecting Fannie Nkosi’s request, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria said the prison’s hospital wing was reserved only for inmates requiring medical care. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Judge hands down ruling three years late

For most of that time there was no record in the official report that tracks late judgments

Eastern Cape judge president, Selby Mbenenge. (Judges Matter)

Key CCTV footage missing in Mbenenge sexual harassment tribunal

The director of facilities and security management at the office of the chief justice said he could not explain why the footage was not preserved

Eastern Cape Judge President Selby Mbenenge. (Nelius Rademan/ Foto24/Gallo Images)

Judge Mbenenge had a reputation for harassment, complainant testifies

Andiswa Mengo told a tribunal two people intimated to her she was not the first woman to be hounded by the Eastern Cape judge president

Palestine Supporters Demonstrate In Front Of The International Court Of Justice. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Treasury finds R95 million for SA’s genocide case against Israel

The funds have been allocated to the departments of justice and international relations to cover their costs in bringing the case before the International Court of Justice

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
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Zondo’s office re-advertises vacancy at the constitutional court

A dearth of candidates has repeatedly left the Judicial Service Commission unable to fill a post created by the retirement of Justice Sisi Khampepe This content is restricted to…

David Unterhalter SC during the Judicial Service Commission interviews. (Oupa Nkosi)

Freedom Under Law accuses JSC of flouting court order on supreme court of appeal vacancies

The failure by the Judicial Service Commission, an organisation chaired by the chief justice, risked undermining respect for the rule of law, the group said

(Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

IEC launches voter registration, surpasses its previous highest record of daily activity

South Africans will vote in national and provincial elections on a date yet to be set, between May and August 2024

Gauteng deputy judge president Ronald Sutherland on Friday issued a directive that all Johannesburg high court hearings will be held virtually for the foreseeable future because of load-shedding

UPDATED: Load-shedding forces Joburg high court to return to virtual hearings

Deputy judge president Ronald Sutherland said public works and the office of the chief justice have failed to provide the court with a reliable generator

Small screen, big deal: Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema is seen on a monitor during a concourt hearing. Photo: Mujahid Safodien/AFP

Concourt halting live-streaming lands hard blow on democracy

Independently filming and live-streaming sittings comes with a cost but the court is closing a window that showed up its critics and was good for transparency

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have called for members of the judiciary to undergo lifestyle audits.

South Africa’s judiciary is hamstrung by poor administration

South African judges are expected to adjudicate complex and serious issues, but how can they do so without libraries, telephones, laptops and an internet connection?

Chief Justice Mandisa Maya. (Gallo Images / The Times / Simphiwe Nkwali)

Maya blames administrative lapses on former supreme court of appeal registrar

In her interview for the position of deputy chief justice, the appellate court president said she tried to resolve woes in the general office that has delayed cases involving…

Serious allegations: Judge John Hlophe (left) is being investigated by the Judicial Conduct Tribunal, as ordered by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng (right). (Shelley Christians/Gallo Images/The Times)

Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name

Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench