The Cape Town Democratic Alliance (DA) caucus has supported the motion of no confidence against mayor Patricia De Lille after a three-hour-long caucus, says deputy caucus leader JP Smith.
An internal motion of no confidence against Cape Town Mayor Patricia De Lille was passed during a …..
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The Australian mining company seeking the right to mine in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has been lashed for its treatment of a community in the Western Cape where it has been accused of breaching its legal obligations.
In the small community of the Matzikama Local Municipality, along the West Coast and some 300km away from Cape Town, resentment still lingers against the Australian company, Mineral Commodities Resources (MCR).
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A parliamentary official has been exposed for wasting millions on some rather ridiculous travel costs. Now, he will have to account for himself.
Parliamentary chief Gengezi Mgidlana is in very hot water over a finding that shows him spending R4m of taxpayers’ money on transport. On Friday, the Cape Town High Court dismissed his bid to stop Parliament carrying out a disciplinary hearing.
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Former president Jacob Zuma has appointed lawyers to challenge a cost order worth an estimated R10-million in the state capture court case.
This latest reported appeal by Zuma will come in his personal capacity, after the Pretoria high court…………
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Over a decade after a drunk judge‚ Nkola Motata‚ was recorded swearing at onlookers after he crashed his Jaguar into a wall‚ a Judicial Service Commission tribunal has found that his racist comments – and the dishonest way he conducted his trial – could justify his removal as a judge.
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The North Gauteng High Court on Tuesday dismissed an application by former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe for leave to appeal a ruling that he pay back the part of his pension payout he already received.
Judge Elias Matojane said based on the submission presented to the court “we are of the view that there is no prospect that another court would come to a different conclusion… therefore the leave to appeal is refused.”
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Embattled minister in the presidency for women Bathabile Dlamini and Sassa acting CEO Pearl Bhengu have been given until Monday to explain why they should not foot the bill for the CPS contract extension.
Last month, the Constitutional Court gave Dlamini and Bhengu until Monday to explain, via affidavits, why they shouldn’t be held personally liable to foot the bill for the extension of the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract to continue distributing social grants.
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Johannesburg – Former finance minister Trevor Manuel on Thursday, said he was a witness and not a suspect in the case against three former senior South African Revenue Services (Sars) officials facing charges of corruption and contravention of the Rica Act.
“I confirm that I had indeed provided the prosecution with a statement last year, under compunction of a subpoena issued in terms of section 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act.
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Former real estate agent Vicki Momberg is expected to appear in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday to apply for leave to appeal her effective two-year prison sentence.
She was convicted of crimen injuria for lashing out at a black police officer who had assisted her after an alleged smash-and-grab incident in Northriding, Johannesburg
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Eleven out of 40 people arrested in protests after a thwarted “land grab” appeared in the Hermanus Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday after being charged with public violence.
They are: Menzi Fokazi, Sive Bophani, Qhawe Bawdeza, Fezile Mzimeli, Mncedisi Ntantala, Deyiti Ntshono, Mthuthuzeli Thembani, Asixolele Mandoyi, Fezeka Mjuleni, Xoli Mkhwe and Ntombifikile Njumbu, all in their 20s and 30s
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JOHANNESBURG – Correctional Services says that a total of 16 prisoners have escaped from the Johannesburg prison known as “Sun City”.
The prisoners broke through the iron bars of the prison windows, broke a portion of the wall and then escaped through the fence in the early hours of Monday morning
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Commander in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), Julius Malema, said he was ready to die a martyr, if that meant following through on a mandate that the African National Congress (ANC) failed to deliver on.
Malema, speaking outside the Bloemfontein High Court on Friday, reminded supporters what the struggle was and always had been about
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Watch fans and supporters of former South African President Jacob Zuma attempt to support him in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, yesterday, as he faces 16 charges for his involvement in the arms deal – two of corruption, 12 of fraud, one of money laundering, and one of racketeering
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Democratic Alliance federal executive chairperson James Selfe has accused Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille of spreading “alternative facts” to “gain public sympathy”.
Selfe’s utterances on Friday come after De Lille released a statement less than 24 hours earlier, alleging that the………
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Former president Jacob Zuma has hit out at his detractors saying that he has been wounded by the people that he grew up with.
Zuma spoke outside the Durban High Court on Friday morning where his corruption case has been postponed.