Eleven mothers who say attorney Zuko Nonxuba owes them a collective R198m have failed in their bid to have him or his wife Novelano provisionally sequestrated. The women, in separate cases, were awarded millions of rand in medical negligence damages after they proved their children had suffered severe cerebral palsy as a result of the negligence of the provincial health department.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has ordered that East London attorney Bulelani Rubushe’s name be struck from the roll of attorneys.On Friday, the SCA set aside a Makhanda high court judgment in terms of which Rubushe was suspended from practice for just two years for his “gross overreaching and rapacious and unconscionable conduct” towards a client.
Buffalo City Metro is facing yet another cash crunch this time thanks to a massive overtime bill. In the understatement of the century, it has admitted that the past three-month’s cumulative overtime bill of R35m, has “affected its cash flow”.
Internationally renowned SA wildlife conservationist Bool Smuts’s public naming and shaming of an Alicedale farmer’s barbaric but legal trapping and killing of a baboon and a porcupine has now reached the highest court in the country.
A South African Law Review Commission discussion paper, which proposes progressive changes to the country’s 40-year-old Matrimonial Property Act, has appeared to raise the ire of some members of the Muslim community.The vehement objectors to the paper say the rights of divorce in a Muslim marriage [Nikah] vest only with the husband and these religious marriage regimes should never be subject to SA law or its courts.