Avinash Govindjee News Today

Judges Matter has asked the chief justice whether the implications of the decision have been carefully weighed

The province faces more tender woes after tenders for two projects worth tens of millions of rand were slowed down by successful court challenges.In both cases, the excluded bidders had provided the lowest bid for the projects.

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.

One of the nine accused in the dock for their alleged involvement in the spate of attacks on University of Fort Hare officials has won his appeal bid to be released on bail.

The addition of a witness at the eleventh hour, who had combed the scene for clues relating to the death of Clyde Stuurman, brought the state’s case against Donovan Wolf under the spotlight.

While the state has withdrawn a charge of defeating the ends of justice against murder accused Donovan Wolf, arguments about the alleged planting of knives and the handling of the police investigation rage on.

Lawyers for Jeffreys Bay man Donovan Wolf now want access to the police docket, which sets out the sequence of the murder investigation, and correspondence between the police and the office of the deputy director of public prosecutions.

The defence team for murder accused Donovan Wolf has challenged the state’s commitment to continue with the case after the matter was postponed in the Gqeberha high court on Wednesday.

Eastern Cape serial rapist Nkosikhona Madinga, convicted of raping six women, has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Madinga, 33, originally from Ngqamakhwe, was sentenced to five terms of life imprisonment for the five rape charges he was convicted of, and 20 years for the sixth rape charge.

A 29-year-old East London man charged with raping seven women aged between 15 and 69 has been convicted on six of the charges.Nkosikhona Madinga appeared restless in the Bhisho high court dock on Tuesday as judge Avinash Govindjee read out the lengthy judgment.