Celebrity aesthetics doctor Dr Nandipha Magudumana’s recent “prison glow up” has the streets talking‚ with many questioning how she has her makeup‚ hair and nails done while behind bars. Magudumana‚ who is linked to the convicted rapist…
The president will not have to appear in criminal court this week President Cyril Ramaphosa will not have to appear in the dock on Thursday‚ after the Johannesburg high court on Monday interdicted former president Jacob Zuma from taking…
Former president Jacob Zuma has been denied leave to appeal the dismissal of his “special plea” to remove lead prosecutor advocate Billy Downer from his corruption trial. Pietermaritzburg high court Judge Piet Koen on Wednesday ruled the…
Themba Mnisi‚ one of several people arrested in connection with the recent riots in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng‚ has been remanded in custody pending a bail application. Mnisi‚ 43‚ made a brief appearance at the Vereeniging magistrate’s…
Several of the accused in the seven-year-old Buffalo City Metro’s R10m Mandela memorial scandal have expressed frustrations over the continuous delays after their matter was once again postponed by the East London magistrate’s court on…
A pensioner who raped a young girl in 2017 was sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment by the Butterworth regional court this week. Sithembiso Ngwanya,70, was convicted and sentenced in the Butterworth regional court this week. National…
Julius Malema, Commander-in-Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters, will face trial at an East London court between August 23-27. The firebrand EFF leader, together with his co-accused Gerhardus Adriaan Snyman, on Monday, made a brief…
Three suspects arrested for allegedly defrauding pensioners were hauled before a court on Friday. Gugu Precious Magudulela, 41, Lindiwe Gladys Thango, 51, and Thabane Blessing Mbhele, 46, from Newcastle in KwaZulu-Natal, appeared in the…
Former president Jacob Zuma has vowed not to co-operate with the state capture commission despite a ruling by the Constitutional Court compelling him to do so. This decision will put Zuma squarely in contempt of the highest court in the…
A 28-year-old man convicted for the statutory rape of a 14-year-old girl who he claimed was his girlfriend has been sentenced to three years behind bars, Eastern Cape police said on Wednesday. Ronwin Swema was convicted in the Jansenville…
Former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday expressed his disappointment at yet another postponement of the case involving him and French arms manufacturer Thales at the Pietermaritzburg high court. The JG Zuma Foundation said: “It is…
The high court has sentenced a serial rapist and burglar to over a century behind bars. Tabanga Clement Ntsau’s sentence came as a relief to the Nemahadi, Tseki, Makwane and Phuthaditjhaba communities in the Free State. The high court —…
A 53-year- old HIV positive man who repeatedly raped his stepdaughter between 2008 and 2018 was sentenced to life imprisonment by the high court in Makhanda on Thursday. The ordeal started when the then 11-year-old victim moved in with…
Only a special ANC conference can tell him to step aside, party secretary-general Ace Magashule told thousands of supporters outside the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Friday. Magashule was speaking after being granted R200,000 bail…
By the time the case is heard, the ban will have been in place for four-and-half months The second big legal challenge to SA’s Covid-19 ban on cigarette sales — now the only one of its kind in the world — will be heard on August 4,…