1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (761+ words) The latest instalment in the turmoil engulfing the South African Police Service (SAPS) raises an ethical question beyond the personalities occupying senior positions: when a state lawyer advises a public official, to whom does that lawyer owe allegiance? It was…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (52+ words) TimesLIVE WATCH LIVE | Senzo Meyiwa murder trial The Bafana Bafana player was murdered in 2014 The Senzo Meyiwa murder trial resumes at the high court in Pretoria on Thursday morning. The case had been postponed due to the interpreter not feeling…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (496+ words) Former defence minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has explained the cash payments made towards extensive renovations at her house in Bruma, Johannesburg. The state alleges that Mapisa-Nqakula used these kickbacks to fund her home renovations. Interior designer Nomsa Shabangu, who managed the…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (817+ words) “Leave me alone, get away from me.” These were the words Roberto Stefanutto told the Cape Town magistrate’s court he heard a woman scream moments before Anele Tembe fell from the 10th floor of the city’s Pepperclub Hotel in April 2021. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (234+ words) A Spring Day water splash celebration in Refilwe, Cullinan, turned deadly when a 21-year-old man was allegedly fatally stabbed during a fight with a man who had been splashed. A 53-year-old man was arrested after Tuesday’s incident at Extension 3. According…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (428+ words) A Brussels court has ordered Belgian biometrics company Semlex and 13 other defendants to stand trial over alleged corruption, money laundering and tax fraud linked to a contract to produce passports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), civil parties…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (630+ words) Security company boss Ferrel Govender, who along with his brother Darren is standing trial for the murder of Umhlanga businessman Shailen Singh in December 2024, has been denied bail for the fifth time. Durban high court judge Jacqui Henriques, who heard…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (623+ words) Foreigners have been able to buy their way into South Africa on fake documents with the help of home affairs officials who treated the visa system like an open marketplace, according to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU). The findings were…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (671+ words) WhatsApp messages have drawn strong financial connections between Vusimuzi Matlala, tender tycoon Hangwani Maumela and the late taxi boss Jothan Msibi. For the first time on Tuesday, the Madlanga commission heard from Matlala how he was connected to Maumela and…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (819+ words) Friday marked the state’s unconditional withdrawal of corruption charges against head of South African Police Service crime intelligence Lt-Gen Dumisani Khumalo, Brig Dineo Mokwele and their co-accused in the Pretoria magistrate’s court. They faced fraud and corruption charges related to…...