# Gauteng Finance and Economic Development MEC, Lebogang Maile, says while the provincial government has underspent its budget by 1.8-billion-rand, only 85-million-rand is at risk of being forfeited to the National Treasury. The provincial government’s final budget for the 2024/2025 financial year was 168.76-billion-rand. By year-end, it had spent 166.97-billion-rand, which is 99-percent of the budget. […]
# Justice and Constitutional Development minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has emphasised the need for an immediate strengthening of security protocols in all court precincts. This comes after a KwaZulu-Natal court official shot and killed an accused person, who had grabbed his colleague’s firearm at the Melmoth Magistrate’s Court on Monday morning. The ministry’s spokesperson, Terrence Manase, […]
# The Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court has ruled that the confession made by Lawrance Sithebiso Mdlalose, accused of starting the Usindiso building fire in Johannesburg, is admissible as evidence. The 30-year-old confessed in January last year to being responsible for the blaze that tore through the Usindiso building in 2023, resulting in the deaths of […]
# Hoofregter Mandisa Maya sal na verwagting die Mthatha Hooggeregshof in die Oos-Kaap besoek. Dit volg op bewerings dat die hof se administratiewe amptenare omkoopgeld van tot 15-duisend-rand van prokureurs eis voordat siviele sake aangehoor word. Die Kantoor van die Hoofregter sê hulle het ‘n forensiese ondersoek ingestel in ooreenstemming met die organisasie se bedrogvoorkoming- […]
# Chief Justice Mandisa Maya is expected to visit the Mthatha High Court in the Eastern Cape. This is in the wake of allegations that the court’s administrative officials demand bribe payments from attorneys of up to 15-thousand-rand before processing civil cases before the court. The Office of the Chief Justice says it has instituted […]
# Die DA doen ’n dringende beroep op president Cyril Ramaphosa om ’n ondersoek deur die Spesiale Ondersoekeenheid te bemagtig na ’n dekade van beweerde korrupsie en wanbestuur deur die Johannesburg Property Company. Die party het ’n mosie van wantroue teen burgemeester Dada Morero ingedien en dokumente ter ondersteuning aan die presidensie oorhandig. Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku […]
# The DA urges president Cyril Ramaphosa to urgently authorise a Special Investigating Unit probe into a decade of alleged corruption and mismanagement at the Johannesburg Property Company. The party has filed a motion of no confidence in mayor Dada Morero and submitted supporting documents to the Presidency. The DA’s Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku says the company […]
# Action Society sê hy is geskok dat polisievakbonde adjunkpresident Paul Mashatile se agt BBP-beskermingsbeamptes, wat in 2023 betrokke was by die gewelddadige bloulig-aanval op burgerlikes, verdedig. Die organisasie het die Polisie- en Gevangenisse-Burgerregtevakbond gekritiseer omdat hulle die beamptes as slagoffers uitbeeld, ten spyte daarvan dat een man bewusteloos gelaat en ander getraumatiseer is. Juanita […]
# Action Society says it’s appalled that police unions are defending deputy president Paul Mashatile’s eight VIP protection officers involved in the violent blue light assault of civilians in 2023. The organisation criticised the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union for portraying the officers as victims, despite one man being left unconscious and others traumatised. […]
