The Johannesburg High Court denied bail for Jeremiah Dube, a convicted fraudster from Zimbabwe, pending his appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal.

Former head of the North West health department Dr Andrew Lekalakala has failed in his court bid to have section 22 of the North West provincial legislature’s Powers, Privileges and Immunities Act declared unconstitutional.

Labour and Labour Appeal Court judge president Edwin Molahlehi has issued directives dealing with the temporary relocation of all Labour Court Johannesburg hearings to other locations from January 2.

Leigh Matthews’ murderer, Donovan Moodley, has been denied parole after consideration of his parole profile.

The Limpopo High Court on Friday convicted and sentenced Rameez Patel of Nirvana, Polokwane, to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Fatima Choomara Patel, 28.

The US has condemned “in the strongest terms” South Africa’s recent detention of its officials performing their duties to provide humanitarian support to Afrikaners, a claim South Africa has denied.

The Pietermaritzburg high court has ordered the minister of police to compensate Jabulani Mlabe, 74, for any proven or agreed damages that he may have suffered as a result of the gunshot wound fired by the police in 2008.

Two robbery suspects were fatally wounded and one injured during a shootout with the police and private security in Kempton Park on Wednesday afternoon.

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) has obtained a preservation order from the Special Tribunal allowing it to freeze R2.7m, including accrued interest, from the sale of land that Tintswalo Patience Chauke received as part of her divorce settlement.

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi refused to continue testifying at the inquiry into South Gauteng director of prosecutions Andrew Chauke’s fitness to hold office on Monday, saying she needed to obtain proper legal counsel.