President Cyril Ramaphosa may have won the first round in his fight to delay his impeachment hearing, but the battle now moves to the Constitutional Court where opposition parties are joining forces in their determination to have him answer before ... Read More
The decision to charge suspended National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola alongside Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala and 15 others in the R360m Medicare24 tender case came under sharp questioning at the commission, reports the Mail & Guardian. Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga asked ... Read More
An ex-military contractor told the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) that former Defence Minister and ex-National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula demanded R250 000 for ‘padkos’ money for a trip to Gqeberha. Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndlovu continued her evidence, led by prosecutor Emile van ... Read More
Weeks of governance turmoil at the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) pushed Africa's largest asset manager to look outside the organisation for help to steady the ship. The corporation approached executive search firms to identify experienced professionals who could temporarily ... Read More
The implosion of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC) board hands Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana a rare chance to rebuild the institution from scratch and get it right this time, Tim Cohen, a long-time business journalist and former editor of Business ... Read More
Nigeria's former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, denied giving N5m ($3 600) to former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na'Abba, to initiate impeachment proceedings against former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Premium Times reports. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the ... Read More
The Lilongwe Chief Resident Magistrate's Court summoned former Finance Minister Chithyola Banda to appear in person on charges of alleged abuse of office, Nyasa Times says. The case concerns K29.5bn ($17m) in extra-budgetary funding said to have been ... Read More
Kenya Breweries Ltd (KBL) returned to the High Court in Nairobi seeking to stop publication of an arbitral award in a dispute over the refurbishment of its Sh3.4bn ($26.3m) Kisumu brewery project, just days after the court lifted ... Read More
The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, opened an investigation into Fifa, alleging corruption and a possible quid pro quo involving the body and the Trump administration, the Anadolu Agency notes. In a letter to Fifa President ... Read More
Duan Chenggang, former vice-chairman of the Chongqing committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was sentenced to life imprisonment for taking bribes worth more than 144m yuan ($21.3m), China Daily reports. Duan was also deprived of political ... Read More
Google faces a wave of private lawsuits that could collectively seek as much as $10bn in damages, shifting Europe's decade-long antitrust battle against the company from regulators to civil courts, says Arbiterz. Alphabet's flagship has already paid more ... Read More
SCA Showroom Centre (Pty) Ltd v Kagan Judgment: 27 July 2026 Keywords: Taxation review – rule 17(3) – Taxing Master's discretion – costs order – reconsideration application – condonation – allocatur – SCA Rules Summary: The applicants unsuccessfully ... Read More
KZN High Court (Durban) RGS Group Holdings Ltd v Albertyn N.O. Judgment: 24 July 2026 Keywords: Business rescue – lis alibi pendens – counter-application – set aside relief – business rescue plan – s 18 execution – Companies Act ... Read More
Western Cape High CourtVermeulen v Shaw N.O. and OthersJudgment: 27 July 2026Keywords: Company law – deregistration – locus standi – section 83(4) Companies Act 71 of 2008 – Companies Act 61 of 1973, s 402– reinstatement – dissolution ... Read More
