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Suspended Public Protector, advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, wants Parliament's Section 194 inquiry into her fitness to hold office scrapped. She says it has been irrevocably tainted by attempts to bribe her. Alternatively, the suspended public protector says the committee's chairperson should recuse himself. The advocate's bid to have the Section 194 Inquiry into her fitness to hold office scrapped is not a first. The full bench of the Western Cape High […]

Political analyst, Dr Sam Koma, says Ace Magashule's expulsion from the ANC is a precedent-setting moment in the history of the governing party. Koma says the former ANC Secretary General is the first former member of the ANC top 6 to have faced a disciplinary process that resulted in him being kicked out of the party. Yesterday, the ANC announced the decision after Magashule missed his Friday deadline to submit […]

Some members of the public are accusing Judge Tshifhiwa Maumela of delaying justice for Senzo Meyiwa's family. They took to social media to vent out their frustration over the delays in the case after Deputy Judge President, Aubrey Ledwaba, informed the court that Judge Maumela who has been presiding over the murder trial is ill and will be away for a long time. Maumela's sick leave comes hot on the heels […]

South Africa continues to pay tribute to the man who led the South African men’s senior national team to the Africa Cup of Nations title in 1996, Clive Barker. The much-loved Africa Cup of Nations-winning coach passed away on Saturday after a battle with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). This type of dementia is caused by clumps of protein forming inside brain cells and can affect a person's ability to think […]

The Department of Health in Free State has refuted suggestions by Gift of the Givers that it is under reporting on the cholera outbreak cases in that province. This after the organisation raised concern, saying that its teams in the Free State received information that the number of people who have died in the province could be up to 10 deaths over the last few days. On Wednesday, the NGO […]

The families of slain Soweto friends, Popi Qwabe and Bongeka Phungula, say the lack of information shrouding the friends' murders has made it difficult for them to come to terms with their passing. Their double homicide made headlines in 2017, when the women’s bodies were found with gunshot wounds dumped near Johannesburg. No arrests have been made, six years after the double homicide. Amid mounting concerns over the high number […]

The latest report by the Office of the Chief Justice has revealed there is a backlog of 904 reserved judgments in courts across the country. The December 2022 report shows that 184 of these judgments had been reserved and were outstanding for a period exceeding six months. This is an increase from the 156 reserved matters in December 2021 over the same period. The remaining more than 700 judgements had […]