The Special Investigating Unit has secured an interim preservation order to freeze three properties worth about R8.4m linked to PPE fraud involving the Northern Cape department of health, where R27m was allegedly looted.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has re-elected Joseph Mathunjwa as president for another five-year term, alongside a refreshed national executive committee.

The Pretoria high court on Tuesday found former sergeants Abraham Hercules Engelbrecht, 61, and Pieter Stander, 60, guilty of the premeditated murder of student activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987.

Justice minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has received a report from the office for ethics and accountability clearing KwaZulu-Natal director of public prosecutions Elaine Harrison of any wrongdoing related to allegations that she had been “captured”

The Pretoria high court has dismissed an application by Ithuba Lottery to interdict the implementation of the award of the fourth national lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings, pending the final determination of its review application.

Petrus Thobejane, a former attorney who was struck off the roll in March last year, appeared in the Pretoria magistrate’s court on Monday to face 31 counts of theft amounting to R8.3m.

A 37-year-old man from Taung in North West who murdered his 55-year-old mother in March has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Former chief justice Raymond Zondo says the level of judicial representation in the Judicial Service Commission is woefully low and if the country is to safeguard the independence and credibility of its judiciary, this imbalance must be corrected.

The Winburg regional court in the Free State has sentenced two brothers to 30 years’ imprisonment each for the premeditated murder of their uncle, Pule Isaac Maobisa, in a calculated scheme to fraudulently claim a funeral insurance payout.

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Friday set aside a judgment of the Free State High Court, which had upheld a disciplinary sanction suspending an attorney who admitted to misappropriating client funds.