President John Dramani Mahama has instructed all metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives (MMDCEs) to comply with constitutional requirements by declaring their assets by 15 July, or face ...

A court in Kenya on Thursday sentenced two men to 30 years in prison for aiding al-Shabaab militants in a 2019 attack on a Nairobi luxury hotel complex, says an africanews report. In January that year ...

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Global bank HSBC is shutting accounts associated with the Gupta family as it conducts a wide-ranging review of any possible involvement in suspicious transactions, with the assistance of external ...

The illicit alcohol industry is booming in SA, and consumers need to be especially careful when buying liquor since they could end up with an illegal product without even realising it. That’s ...

A Tunis court has sentenced exiled former President Moncef Marzouki in absentia to 22 years in prison for offences related to ‘terrorism’, Tunisian media reported on Saturday. According to the New ...

Starlink users in SA will have their satellite internet services terminated at the end of the month due to violation of its terms and conditions, the company has warned. Starlink has notified local ...

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The SA Revenue Service is planning legal action against journalist and author Jacques Pauw and the Sunday Times with regard to ‘the unlawful disclosure of confidential taxpayer information’. A ...

The Constitutional Court has blocked traditional leaders in the Limpopo Province from taxing their communities, saying the Constitution is clear that ‘unelected, non-legislative’ bodies cannot have ...

The Competition Tribunal has approved a takeover of South Africa's largest fuel service network, Engen, by Dutch-Swiss commodities group Vitol, but has imposed a host of conditions, including on ...

Former Constitutional Court Justice Yvonne Mokgoro died on Thursday, almost a year after she was involved in a vehicle accident in the Northern Cape. She was 73. She was travelling between Warrenton ...