# Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mmamoloko Kubayi, says the government is moving to improve access to justice for all through the rationalisation of the courts. Cabinet has approved a master plan to redraw court boundaries and establish new seats of justice where they are most needed. This forms part of efforts to ease […]
# Tennis: Twenty-three-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams claimed her first professional victory in nearly four years in the women’s doubles at Queen’s in London. The 44-year-old American and Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko defeated the third-seeded duo Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe, 7-6, 6-2, to make the quarterfinals. The unseeded pair of Williams and Mboko […]
# The ANC Gauteng Provincial Task Team has picked Hassan Mako as its mayoral candidate for the Emfuleni Local Municipality, ahead of the local government elections in November. He is set to replace former mayor Sipho Radebe, who was fired by the party last week. The ANC says Mako brings with him extensive experience as […]
# The UK, Australia, Canada, France and Norway have imposed sanctions and other measures to hold networks involved in financing and enabling settler violence against Palestinian civilians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The coordinated sanctions are targeting six firms and one individual. According to the United Nations, one-thousand-835 attacks by settlers against Palestinians were recorded […]
# Die Oos-Kaapse Regterpresident, Selby Mbenenge, het ‘n dringende interdik en hersieningsaansoek by die Hooggeregshof in Pretoria ingedien, waarin hy die bevindinge deur die Regterlike Dienskommissie betwis. Die kommissie het hom skuldig bevind aan growwe wangedrag, wat voortspruit uit bewerings van seksuele teistering deur sy voormalige sekretaresse, Andiswa Mengo. Mbenenge voer in die hofstukke aan […]
# Die Internasionale Strafhof se hoof-aanklaer, Karim Khan, is geskors na ʼn ondersoek oor bewerings van seksuele wangedrag. Die bewerings is in 2024 aangemeld deur ʼn vrou wat by die hof se hoofkwartier in Den Haag, Nederland, vir hom gewerk het. Khan staar tugprosedures in die gesig voordat al 125 lidlande van die Internasionale Strafhof […]
# Die voorsitter van die Ampsklagkomitee, Makashule Gana, het gewaarsku teen die voortydige bepaling van sperdatums, maar hoop om die komitee se volgende vergadering te belê voor die Parlement aan die einde van die maand in reses gaan. Die komitee moet bepaal of president Cyril Ramaphosa in ‘n staat van beskuldiging geplaas moet word oor […]
# Krieket: Engeland en Wallis se Krieketraad ondersoek ‘n oortreding van span-protokolle waarby kaptein Ben Stokes en die snelbouler Gus Atkinson betrokke was na die eerste toets teen Nieu-Seeland. Die twee was Maandag in die vroeë oggendure in ʼn nagklub toe ʼn voorval plaasgevind het. Die raad sê hy soek tans meer inligting. Engeland het […]
# Eastern Cape Judge President, Selby Mbenenge, has filed an urgent interdict and review application in the High Court in Pretoria, challenging the findings of the Judicial Service Commission. The commission found him guilty of gross misconduct, which stems from allegations of sexual harassment made by his former secretary, Andiswa Mengo. In court papers, Mbenenge […]
