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The Department of Employment and Labour’s public commission of inquiry into the fatal 2018 explosion heard evidence on the company’s overtime payment system from Rheinmetall Denel Munitions’ former safety committee chairperson Louis Minnaar.
Bloemfontein High Court Judge President Cagney Musi has ruled that the Business Rescue Practitioners (BRPs) assigned to manage Islandsite Investments have the legal standing to represent the compan...
NPA to appeal Western Cape High Courtâs acquittal of ANC MP Bongani Bongo Share Cape Town â After taking time to consider its options, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has announced that it would appeal the decision to acquit ANC MP Bongani Bongo. Last month, Bongo had his corruption charges thrown out by the Western Cape High Court after he applied for the case to be dismissed. Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe granted Bongo his section 174 application and found him not guilty on a charge of corruption on the basis of insufficient evidence. Bongo was charged with att...
Read Part One here and Part Two here. At the end of January 2021, in amongst the headlines on Covid-19 and the virulent new British strain that was set to hit the United States “like a hurricane,” the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed that riffed on a brand-new addition to the English lexicon: “collapseology”. It was heavy reading for the paper’s Sunday edition, particularly given the new dawn that was supposed to have been heralded by the inauguration of Joe Biden, but the facts in the piece were as true as they were newsworthy. For many decades, the authors noted, an ever-grow...
Bongani Bongo, who was the minister of state security in the dying days of the Zuma administration, was charged with a series of contraventions of the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (PCCA), on the basis that he offered a gratification in the form of an offer or a suggestion to advocate Ntuthuzelo Vanara, Senior Legal Adviser to Parliament, which offer was allegedly aimed to derail or interfere with a parliamentary inquiry into Eskom. Let us leave aside the controversy that continues to brew about the presiding judge, John Hlophe’s decision to hear the case, and undertake...