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Reinet says discussions have taken place with fund managers and its investee companies on how geopolitical uncertainty might impact the value of its underlying investments or cause volatility in financial markets, interest rates and inflation.

Mossel Bay magistrate Ezra Morrison has opened a criminal case against News24’s Karyn Maughan and Kelly Anderson following a series of articles exposing how she apparently ignored early warnings from experts that the boy now accused of Deveney Nel’s murder was ‘at high risk for offending’ and might need professional help.

As universities start registering students for the new academic year, the South African Union of Students has warned of a possible shutdown of the country’s 26 universities if issues raised with Minister of Higher Education Nobuhle Nkabane are not urgently resolved.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Expropriation Bill into law. It provides for expropriation of land with nil compensation. The law also provides for instances where expropriation with nil compensation may be appropriate in the public interest.

Former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo was recorded as being “not satisfied” by the first sexual harassment complaint levelled against Selby Mbenenge – and this, the judge president’s lawyers say, led to his accuser filing an “improved” statement.

Officials said Thursday that they had taken fallen real estate tycoon Rene Benko into custody as part of a fraud probe, alleging the founder of the insolvent Signa group had attempted to conceal assets including watches and high-priced weapons.

Nafiz Modack and his co-accused must wait until Monday for the potentially life-changing decision on whether the case against them will be discharged by the Western Cape High Court that is trying to get to the bottom of the murder of Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) detective Charl Kinnear and others.

A KwaZulu-Natal High Court judge had to intervene to reduce noise levels as a packed gallery exchanged greetings, which were received with smiles by five men accused of the mass murder of nine people over beds at the Glebelands Hostel in Umlazi.

Amid staggering numbers of deaths and amputations from traditional circumcisions in the Eastern Cape, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa has said that any culture that kills, needs to be reviewed.

The family members of 20 missing and murdered anti-apartheid activists are suing government for R167 million in constitutional damages – for suppressing the investigation into and prosecution of their loved ones’ alleged torturers and killers.