South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has held electricity utility Eskom and state regulators responsible for water pollution from a coal fired power station.
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South Africa’s top appeal court has ordered the state-owned power utility Eskom to disclose its coal and diesel contracts, marking a major win for transparency and accountability.
The egregious failures in the Judicial Service Commission’s process have muddied the water and complicated the President’s decision-making.
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma’s loss in the Appeals Court forms part of three milestones in his recent history dominated by corruption, unethical conduct and a knack to avoid criminal charges.
The Supreme Court of Appeal judgment means that South Africa’s president must be prosecuted - unless the national director of public prosecutions decides again to drop the charges against him.
Were South African banks within their legal rights to close a politically influential family’s accounts?
The long-serving justice changed how judges talk about statutes, but not, argues one law professor, how they ultimately interpret them.
The debate about the quality of High Court judges after the Pistorius trials reflects a different cultural clash in South Africa – one in which incompetence is often associated with black people.
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