The global biometrics market is growing rapidly. In fact, research indicates that the global market is growing a compounded growth rate of 22.9%...
Pine Pienaar 15 Jan 2019
MyImprint, a tech startup that provides easy access to criminal record and identity verifications, is the first of its kind to innovate a digital consent verification system in South Africa...
Evan-Lee Courie 12 Nov 2018
Tender fraud and corruption are probably endemic throughout the world but a case has recently been unearthed in Malta that is so diabolically clever, so deviously contrived that it makes the various SAA, SABC, SANRAL and other cadre-deployment shenanigans seem blunt and clunky in comparison...
Marcus ‘The Maltese Falcon’ Brewster 24 Aug 2018
Henri van Breda has been found guilty of murdering his parents and brother in their Stellenbosch home...
Shan Radcliffe 22 May 2018
AfriForum has filed criminal charges against National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams and six other senior members of the National Prosecuting Authority, following the receipt of an anonymous letter containing detailed allegations of serious misconduct...
Shan Radcliffe 12 Apr 2018
Crime, cartels, corruption, fraud, defaults, divorce... Say what we may about pitiful employment figures, there's no shortage of work for South African courts. Here are a few cases that may pique the public interest this year...
Shan Radcliffe 31 Jan 2018
When I saw the headlines on Friday stating the Western Cape High Court had declared the use of marijuana at home legal, I believed someone had shot off an early April Fool's joke...
Shan Radcliffe 31 Mar 2017
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There is nothing more frustrating for an insurer than having a suspicion of insurance fraud, but not having sufficient evidence to prove it...
Sharon Snell 13 May 2016
As of 1 May 2016, the Competition Amendment Act (2009) comes into effect and one of its provisions makes cartel conduct a criminal offence...
Albert Aukema 26 Apr 2016
Lady Justice is supposed to be blind, but the wheels of justice still need to turn smoothly and she still needs to pay the bills...
Nicci Botha 2 Nov 2015
The basic principle of VAT is that a vendor must account to the South African Revenue Service (SARS) for output tax on taxable supplies made after deducting any input tax incurred by him...
Graeme Palmer 9 Mar 2015
The government of the Republic of Botswana has seen it fit to pass legislation which will provide measures to prevent and combat terrorism, provide for offences, including financing of terrorism...
Thabiso T. Tafila 28 Jan 2015
Minister of Higher Education and Communist Party chief Blade Nzimande is right to be concerned about hate speech and racism on the internet - but what is to be done about it?
Anton Harber 8 Jan 2015
I can stand in the street and call someone a thief. I can even call the president a thief. But I can't do it in Parliament. Something is topsy-turvy here...
Anton Harber 21 Nov 2014
There is a lesson here for Cell C (and other companies, for that matter) in the Cell C banner debacle. When you are facing a reputational crisis, the worst reaction is to be defensive; run to the lawyers and advertise...
Grace Belger 19 Nov 2014
As business environments improve, Africa's urbanisation and middle class are growing rapidly. Over the past decade, six out of the 10 fastest-growing economies worldwide were in sub-Saharan Africa.
Lucy Signorelli 3 Nov 2014
We have seen one style of cross-examination at the Oscar Pistorius trial: the pit-bull approach. It is tough and brutal...
Anton Harber 25 Apr 2014
Consider again the extraordinary achievements of Thamsanqa Dyantyi, the world's worst sign-language interpreter.
Françoise Henderson 11 Apr 2014
At times such as these, I want to sing the praise of those elements of our news media that show courage and doggedness.
Anton Harber 28 Mar 2014
There are a number of high-profile trials, notably the OJ Simpson one, which captured the imagination of the world - only for the accused to evade punishment.
Sid Peimer 19 Mar 2014
My university and I were lambasted by a colleague for stooping so low as to engage in the Oscar Pistorius trial media frenzy...
Anton Harber 14 Mar 2014
Just because they lived close to Oscar Pistorius and had the misfortune of hearing the events that led to his murder trial, the lives of witnesses were torn apart.
Anton Harber 10 Mar 2014
This week's decision by Judge Dunstan Mlambo to allow the broadcasting of the Oscar Pistorius trial was itself broadcast live - and provided a vivid demonstration of the value of letting cameras into courts.
Anton Harber 28 Feb 2014
The Master of the High Court in Cape Town has authorised a warrant for the arrest of Anthony (Tony) Vaughan, director of Media Nova and various other publishing companies.
Glenda Nevill 19 Feb 2014
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released her report on the SABC yesterday. The report - 'When Governance and Ethics Fail' - paints a damning picture of abuse of power, mismanagement, waste and corruption, and outright dishonesty at the public broadcaster.
Rod Baker 18 Feb 2014
If you were the judge in the Oscar Pistorius trial, would you allow cameras and cellphones into the courtroom?
Anton Harber 14 Feb 2014
The Dangerous Weapons Act 15 of 2013 ("the Act") was signed into law by President Jacob Zuma in July last year and came into force earlier this month. The Act prohibits the carrying of dangerous weapons such as pangas, metal pipes, kieries, rocks and spears at public protests and strikes.
Nadia Mather 30 Jan 2014
NEWSWATCH: Gauteng's use of ANC colours in billboards and posters - supposedly to publicise the administration's work, but using ANC party colours - has raised questions, reports Mail & Guardian.
Rod Baker 17 Jan 2014
NEWSWATCH: Police apparently fear that reporters with machine guns hidden in their cameras could pose a risk to Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir, reports Times Live, and Communications Minister Yunus Carrim says he has received the PP's report on the SABC, reports IOL.
Rod Baker 26 Nov 2013
NEWSWATCH: First they couldn't, now they can - the media that is... can cover Julius Malema's trial on multiple charges, reports news24. BDLive reports the owner of Goldfields newspaper is to testify against Media24, and Google and Microsoft have agreed to measures to block images of child abuse, reports the BBC.
Rod Baker 18 Nov 2013
