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South Africa’s largest corporate polluters have worked persistently over the past two decades, in public and in private, to derail an effective climate policy response by the government, according to non-profit shareholder activism organisation Just Share.
DEADLY AIR

Legal battle to stop deadly air

The key theme in the air quality case heard in the supreme court of appeal this week focused on holding government and polluters to account

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
‘Saving the country’: Mzukisi Makatse outed R6-million of irregular lottery funding and says more protection is needed for those who fight graft
BUYEL EKHAYA MUSIC FESTIVAL

‘Don’t profile me; profile whistleblowing as a concept’

Man who outed R6m ‘irregular’ lottery funding believes more protection is needed for those who fight graft

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
Whiffs of totalitarianism: Declassified documents show that the SAPS’s crime intelligence bought spy equipment to track and monitor #FeesMustFall students, and, what’s more, vastly overpaid for it. (Madelen Cronjé)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Top cop arrest blitz is imminent for R100m crime intelligence graft

SAPS top brass in sights for R100m security equipment corruption while spying on ANC and students

  • Khaya Koko
8 min read
Riah Phiyega was two months into her job as national commissioner when police killed 34 striking miners in the North West town of Marikana on 16 August 2012.
IAN FARLAM

Phiyega bid to sidestep Marikana massacre dismissed

Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.

  • Niren Tolsi
6 min read
‘As Abrahams made clear in his announcement that the charges were to be reinstated
BAR AUTHOR

Zuma’s legal woes lay bare justice system vulnerabilities

A court should consider a punitive costs order if Zuma’s counsel continues a ‘Stalingrad defence’

  • Serjeant At The
  • Bar Author
5 min read
NPA acting National Director Mokotedi Mpshe’s decision to drop corruption charges against Jacob Zuma was deemed irrational by SCA
JACOB ZUMA

SCA ruling means Zuma has little wiggle room left

With his appeal rejected, it will be tough for the president to avoid his long-standing charges

  • Serjeant At The
  • Bar Author
5 min read
Imperialist edifice: A reader says that government’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court
AFRICAN UNION

Executive has prerogative to withdraw from treaties, court hears

The DA told the high court in Pretoria that only Parliament could decide to withdraw from a treaty which the country had entered into.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
2 min read
Research at Stellenbosch University looks at the link between viral infections and cardiovascular disease.
ASSISTED SUICIDE

Supreme Court of Appeals overturns ruling allowing “assisted dying”

In 2015, the High Court granted a terminally ill man, Robin Stransham-Ford, the right to die with dignity by way of euthanasia.

  • Olivia Kumwenda-mtambo
2 min read
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Al Bashir ruling a ‘landmark judgement for international criminal justice’

Security experts weigh in on the possible implications of the SCA’s ruling about Sudanese President Omar al Bashir’s stay in South Africa.

  • M&G Reporters
3 min read
MONEYWEB

Company shareholders’ information: Privacy vs public’s right to information

A potentially precedent-setting ­dispute on the right to access information on unlisted firms’ shareholdings came before the Supreme Court of Appeal.

  • Karabo Rajuili
4 min read
City of Johannesburg.
JOHANNESBURG

Cities are publicly accountable, appeal court rules

Johannesburg’s long-running legal battle over its obligations to evictees have increasingly become uncomfortably clear to its functionaries.

  • Sarah Evans
6 min read
Diamonds are prepared in Gaberone and then traded out of there rather than London. Namibia
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Concourt hears arguments in Zim torture case

A Supreme Court of Appeal ruling compelling SA authorities to probe alleged crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe, is being challenged in the Concourt.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
IMVUME MANAGEMENT

M&G vindicated in Oilgate appeal

The Supreme Court of Appeals dismissed the Public Protector’s appeal against a high court setting aside its report into the Oilgate saga.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
NPA confident Selebi conviction will hold
FRAUD

NPA confident Selebi conviction will hold

The NPA said is confident the Supreme Court of Appeals will confirm the conviction of former national police commissioner Jackie Selebi.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
SOUTH AFRICA

Zuma decision unlikely to count against ANC

The court ruling that opened the way for corruption charges to be levelled against ANC leader Jacob Zuma may not count against the party.

  • David Bailey
  • Fang Yan
3 min read
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Court opens way for new Zuma charges

South Africa’s appeals court on Monday overturned a judge’s ruling dismissing graft charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma.

  • Mark John
  • Yuri Kulikov
3 min read
BONGANI VILAKAZI

Rape victim draws short straw

Incompetent prosecution often frustrates the intention of minimum sentencing legislation.

  • Nicole Johnston
3 min read
CHIEFTANCY

‘A Hosi is truly born’

It has been a long and difficult road, but Hosi Nwamitwa is finally ascending the throne, writes Sello S Alcock.

  • Sello S Alcock
6 min read