A prominent KZN businessman recently named at the Madlanga Commission appeared in the Durban Magistrate's Court on charges of kidnapping, crimen injuria, cybercrime, sexual assault and obtaining women for purposes of prostitution, yesterday after his arrest by the Hawks ... Read More
Former Eskom contractor Michael Lomas admitted last week to paying R2.2m in kickbacks to senior officials overseeing the Kusile power station mega-build, in a plea-and-sentence agreement with Idac, News24 reports. Lomas, who worked for Tubular Construction Projects, was sentenced to ... Read More
More than half of Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s foundation trustees have some connection to people involved in the new lottery consortium. The foundation, which claims to support children with autism, has not submitted any NPO-compliance documents since its inception in ... Read More
Five years after the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) dismissed two of its most senior officials, an affidavit by activist Zackie Achmat sheds new light on their efforts to stop widespread looting at the rail agency. Martha Ngoye ... Read More
SA cannot run a primary school outing, a criminal gang, a 200 000-person police service or a national government on formal regulation alone, and appointments, prosecutions, police investigations and judicial decision-making all have to be complemented by a degree of ... Read More
A federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, convicted Ghanaian-American businessman Asante Kwaku Berko, a former Tema Oil Refinery managing director, over a bribery scheme involving more than $1m, according to the Ghanaian Times. Berko was convicted on 6 August of ... Read More
Ethiopia acted against individuals, organisations and networks accused of undermining its macroeconomic reform through corruption, illegal economic activity and misuse of national resources, the Ethiopian News Agency reports. Government Communication Service Minister Enatalem Melese said organised networks spanning the business ... Read More
Kenya's Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) demanded nearly Sh2.5bn ($19m) from 25 individuals and companies, including former Education Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i and Immigration Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang, to recover payments made to private firms for 13 ... Read More
Suspected Chinese hackers used publicly available AI tools to compromise government websites in Taiwan in a first-of-a-kind breach, the Financial Times says. The attackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool behaving like a co-ordinated cyber team ... Read More
The leaders of the Albanian Government agency, which developed Diella, the chatbot promoted to ministerial status last September with a remit to keep public tenders free of corruption, are suspected of rigging tenders in favour of a criminal group, OCCRP ... Read More
Paramount Skydance is considering leaving California, its chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, said, warning that a lawsuit by California Attorney-General Rob Bonta seeking to block the company's purchase of Warner Bros Discovery was creating a 'devastating' delay, Politico reports ... Read More
Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Standard Bank of SA Limited v Janse van Rensburg and Others Judgment: 13 July 2026 Keywords: Trust law – authority of trustees – estoppel and ostensible authority – commercial transactions with trusts – representation of ... Read More
Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Investec Bank v Georgiou (FRB intervening) Judgment: 15 May 2026 Keywords: Insolvency – provisional sequestration – acknowledgement of debt – liquidated claim – prescription – advantage to creditors – factual insolvency – commercial insolvency – ... Read More
Eastern Cape High Court (Gqeberha) Ferreira v Ferreira Judgment: 6 August 2026 Keywords: Trusts – removal of trustees – Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988 – conflict of interest – locus standi – beneficiaries – estate planning Summary: The ... Read More
