A court order against Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi to pay the state more than R1.66bn benefited from corruption was welcomed as an important step in holding those who profited from corruption financially accountable, but the fight was not over yet ... Read More
Former Phala Phala employees Imanuwela David and Froliana Joseph were found guilty of theft of $580 000 in cash hidden in a couch at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm. Legalbrief reports that the conviction marks the latest development in a ... Read More
The NPA’s Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has secured a provisional restraint order over assets worth R99m linked to Mpumalanga taxi boss Joe ‘Ferrari’ Sibanyoni and others with ties to organised criminal activities that include extortion. NPA spokesperson Kaizer Kganyago said ... Read More
Former State Security Agency operative Thulani Dlomo has failed in his bid to have fraud, forgery and uttering charges against him dismissed in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), clearing the way for him to present a defence in the long-running ... Read More
Months after the Police Advisory Board was announced, uncertainty over its composition, legal mandate, authority and relationship with existing oversight institutions raises concerns about the political will to reform SAPS, Jacob Mofokeng, a professor of criminology at Unisa, says in ... Read More
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recorded 52 illegal mining cases between October 2023 and July, securing the forfeiture of 102 tonnes of solid minerals, Voice of Nigeria says. EFCC chairperson Ola Olukoyede said illegal mining created opportunities for ... Read More
Former Kiambu governor Ferdinand Waititu was handed an additional 13-year prison sentence in a corruption and money laundering case involving Sh588m ($4.5m) siphoned from Kiambu County during his tenure, Pulse Kenya notes. Justice Harrison Barasa of the Milimani High ... Read More
Kenya’s Government should tackle corruption to boost growth and raise incomes, the World Bank said as it lifted its growth forecast for this year to 4.6% from 4.3% after a stronger-than-expected first half, Channel Africa reports. In its ... Read More
Edwin Brant Frost IV, a businessman and prominent Republican donor from the US state of Georgia, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a Ponzi scheme that defrauded Christian conservative investors of $76m, Moneywise reports. Frost, who pleaded guilty ... Read More
Nepal’s Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) filed corruption charges against former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 96 others over an alleged land-swap scheme which investigators said cost the government roughly $4.8m, according to OCCRP ... Read More
Serbian authorities arrested Marko Kricak, the head of the country’s criminal police directorate, on suspicion of abuse of office, while denying any link to elections held last week, according to Al Jazeera. Police commander Bosko Sekulovic, in charge of fighting ... Read More
Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Reid v Road Accident Fund Judgment: 23 October 2026 Keywords: Costs – Review of taxation – Incorrect legal premise – Incorrect scale applied – Referral back to taxing master for reconsideration Summary: The plaintiff, Reid ... Read More
Western Cape High Court (George) Nedbank Limited v Smit Judgment: 27 October 2026 Keywords: Interdict – Unlawful competition – Former employee – Misappropriation of confidential client information – Contractual confidentiality and non-solicitation clauses surviving termination of employment – Admission of ... Read More
Western Cape High Court Broll Property Group (Pty) Ltd and Another v Fountainhead Property Trust & Others Judgment: 28 October 2026 Keywords: Delict – Slip-and-fall in shopping mall – Spillage on floor – Wrongfulness and negligence – Evidential burden shifts to ... Read More
