Judge gives scathing ruling with punitive cost order TANIA BROUGHTON • A woman and three organisations took Home Affairs to court for blocking Identity Documents without following a just administrative process. • About 700,000 IDs were…
Livelihoods at stake warns Mayor An extraordinary show of unity all but blew away justice minister Ronnie Lamola in the city hall in Makhanda this week. He was there, along with a delegation from the Moseneke Commission, to hear why the…
Following a court order, Ndlambe Municipality has established a permit system for commonage grazing and keeping animals in residential areas, but it has not yet published or posted information about this for the public. In November, the…
The Democratic Alliance in Ndlambe has submitted a motion to council rejecting the proposal to accept reverse osmosis equipment from Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) as repayment for the R20-million paid in advance of an unlawful tender.…
East London attorney Frans Maritz has been severely rebuked by the high court for his “questionable integrity” and “extreme greed” in helping himself to a huge chunk of the damages awarded to a client by the Road Accident Fund, despite…
The recent judgment in the Cape High Court has set in motion a new, and extremely dangerous, political phase in South Africa. by Anthea Jeffery First published by DAILY FRIEND on August 27 In a judgment handed down last Tuesday, the Cape…
DA pushes municipality for action after Talk of the Town provides correspondence from Quality Filtration Systems The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it will not hesitate to lay criminal charges after it came to light that Quality Filtration…
Human settlements, water & sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu has been dragged to the high court in Pietermaritzburg by former board members of Umgeni Water after her decision to remove them and appoint an interim board. Nine of the 14…
At the Ndlambe council meeting, held on Tuesday a discussion took place regarding the latest Grahamstown High Court ruling against Ndlambe Municipality for awarding a R100-million contract to build a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant…
The DA in the Eastern Cape today called for the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) to be tasked with investigating the controversial and unlawful tender awarded to Quality Filtration Systems (QFS) for a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) plant…
Co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma can appeal against the blanket declaration of invalidity of SA’s lockdown regulations, but still has to amend some of them in the next 10 days.…
The high court in Cape Town will hear British American Tobacco SA’s (BAT) application to have the ban on the sale of tobacco products set aside next week. The application is expected to be heard on June 30, reports BusinessLIVE. The ban…
The basic education department’s decision to reopen schools must be assessed against the best interests of the child principle‚ lawyers for One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane have argued. Maimane is challenging the reopening…
The Pretoria high court on Wednesday dismissed an application by the Educators’ Union of South Africa (Eusa) to stop schools from reopening. Union spokesperson Kabelo Mahlobogwane said the court found that there was no urgency in the…
Co-operative governance & traditional affairs (Cogta) minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has argued that a judgment which labelled lockdown regulations as “invalid” was vague and does not tell her which rules should be changed and how she…
