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Hogan Lovells apologised for a 2017 report exonerating Jonas Makwakwa, the former senior Sars official.

Its understood that the State had more than 30 witnesses lined up to give damning testimonies against the accused.

Fifty-two-year-old Gerhard Ackerman is standing trial for 700 counts of charges including rape, human trafficking, distribution and production of child pornography.

The pre-trial conference for the R280-million Estina corruption case has been postponed to 21 April 2023. 

The DA’s march to the heart of the ANC, Luthuli House, over the issue of rolling blackouts may well be the start of its campaign for next year’s general election, as the energy crisis seems set to be the defining issue of the 2024 campaigns aimed at ending 30 years of ANC dominance.

President Ramaphosa’s call appears motivated by simple populism and the realisation that rolling blackouts could cost the ANC a previously unimaginably large number of votes in the general election just 18 months away.

The Gupta-linked R24.9m Nulane Investments trial began in the Free State High Court in Bloemfontein on Monday.

Siphiwe Mahlangu is the States first witness in the two-week trial. He wrapped up his first day of testimony under fire from defence lawyers during his cross-examination.

The continued illness of Bosasa company executive Angelo Agrizzi has stalled his fraud and corruption trial.

The main business of our universities is gradually becoming about who should be in what position by hook or crook instead of how best we can articulate the core business of a university which is teaching and learning, research, and community engagement, writes Omphemetse Sibanda.