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G4S booted from control of Mangaung prison after Thabo Bester escape

Prison department says that the director of Mangaung prison has lost control of the facility

By Daniel Steyn, James Stent and Marecia Damons

News | 30 March 2023

Thabo Bester ran a glamorous media company from prison

Joburg high society attended the luxurious launch of Bester’s company

By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons

Feature | 24 March 2023

Facebook rapist: Deputy Minister was informed by warder that Thabo Bester escaped

Nothing appears to have been done about it

By Oliver Meth

News | 22 March 2023

Thabo Bester saga: Prison department denies it has autopsy report. Here it is!

The autopsy was completed a day after the fire and found that the man was dead before his body was burnt

By Daniel Steyn and Marecia Damons

News | 18 March 2023

Did the Facebook rapist die in his cell? Or did he escape from prison?

Extraordinary evidence raises doubts about the claim that Thabo Bester died in a fire at Mangaung prison in May 2022

By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn

Feature | 15 March 2023

Insulting language by a lawyer cannot be tolerated in court, says SCA

The Supreme Court of Appeal has blocked a bad tempered, disrespectful law graduate from being admitted as an attorney

By Tania Broughton

Law | 8 March 2023

Supreme Court of Appeal reserves judgment in Tafelberg matter

“At the heart of the matter is the government’s obligations to promote equitable access to land and to redress spatial apartheid” says housing activist

By Tania Broughton

Law | 20 February 2023

Buckets to catch water in Free State hospital’s leaking wards

Nurses downed tools last week over poor conditions at Boitumelo Regional Hospital in Kroonstad

By Rethabile Nyelele

Brief | 9 February 2023

Silicosis class action bolstered by Appeal Court ruling

Litigation has been ongoing for ten years

By Tania Broughton

Law | 7 February 2023

Appeal Court finds Cape Town’s emergency housing programme is not unconstitutional

Although it overturned the High Court ruling, the SCA granted the same relief

By Tania Broughton

Law | 6 February 2023

Video: Free State municipality fails to provide water to communities

In Parys, Free State, the water supply is becoming ever more erratic, exacerbated by loadshedding. Many people have to walk kilometres to get water. This has caused great dissatisfaction and sparked violent protests.

By Adel Van Niekerk

Video | 6 February 2023