Category: Scandals

The Office of the Chief Justice on Thursday denied that a so-called super injunction was granted against Open Secrets, an organisation investigating private sector economic crimes. Under UK law, a…

Last week, outside the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, thousands of climate activists, including indigenous peoples and youth leaders, took to the streets in what they called the Great People’s…

On Thursday, 27 November, Western Cape High Court Judge Nathan Erasmus dismissed the “gag order” against nonprofit accountability group Open Secrets, which was granted by acting Judge Gavin Cooper two…

Despite facing criminal charges, being arrested and released on R50,000 bail, Themba Mathibe, chief executive officer of the Johannesburg Development Agency (JDA), remains in his post, with the City of…

The City of Joburg paid nearly R1-million for a boundary wall that did not exist, after photographs from another site and five unchecked invoices were accepted as proof of completion.…

While facing his own Legal Practice Council disciplinary hearing into misconduct later this year, lawyer Barnabas Xulu this week launched an urgent application to interdict President Cyril Ramaphosa from appointing…

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Babalwa Lobishe has been summoned to appear before the ANC’s Integrity Commission at Calata House in Qonce on Friday, 6 February, in relation to the “unauthorised”…

In November 2025, six weeks after the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria had declared a resounding victory for conservationist Fred Daniel in his decades-long legal battle with…

The Special Tribunal has frozen the pension of a former National Lotteries Commission (NLC) employee, Sibonelo Vilakazi, who used his position to channel payments running into tens of millions of…

The iconic green emblem of Pam Golding Properties’ logo sits on posters at the gates of mansions sprawled across luxury neighbourhoods in South Africa (SA). The South African real estate…