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Businessman punished by second judge for campaign of abuse targeting top Joburg lawyer
"I'm your nightmare," Andre Loots told a senior Johannesburg attorney in a May 2021 email. It was one of 54 abusive messages the wealthy businessman sent to the lawyer and his attorneys over six weeks.
‘Black fathers’ complaint about Standard Bank ad crashes and burns
A viewer who claimed a Standard Bank TV ad featuring an astronaut was one giant leap backwards for black mankind has been brought down to Earth by the advertising watchdog.
Paramedics leapt to safety as chopper careered around hospital roof: report
Details of the drama, which unfolded on the 30m roof at 1am on February 19, emerged this week in a preliminary serious incident report issued by the SA Civil Aviation Authority.
R4.5m libel claim ends in another legal black eye for school admin assistant
If Cathy Botha had been successful in a R4.5m high court damages claim, she would have eclipsed the SA record for libel payouts.
Covid-19 rules that ignored reality of shack dwellers’ lives come under fire
Lockdown regulations that ignored the living conditions of shack-dwellers were "astonishing", according to a new analysis.
Principal who doubled matric pass rate fired for punching teacher
A principal who doubled his school's matric pass rate by organising extra classes was furious when some pupils did not attend.
‘Girls find me attractive,’ teacher accused of sex assault tells disciplinary hearing
A talk about gender-based violence at a Cape Town primary school left a grade 7 girl in tears as she told a teacher what had happened to her eight months earlier.
138 inmates get go-ahead to sue for R69m damages over prison ‘assaults’
The appeal court has given the go-ahead for 138 men to sue the government for R500,000 each over alleged assaults at St Albans prison in Gqeberha.
SA TV news producer evacuated from Ukraine after ambush by Russian death squad
A South African TV news producer and her four crew have been evacuated from Ukraine after two of them were shot by a suspected Russian "death squad".
Cops must pay R275,000 to man they locked up when he refused to give them R10,000
Boccaccio Nhlapo was watching TV at home when seven police officers looking for a bribe arrived and turned his life upside down.


















