Aesop updated: lawyer loses all

REMEMBER the fable about finding a great treasure of gold and jewels? You could help yourself, but only take as much as you could carry. Drop anything and it would all disappear; you’d be left with nothing at all. Strangely …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...

Alzheimer’s disease fuels family feud

LIKE an endless family drama stretched over decades and generations, the bitter Vermeulen feud has dominated the lives of its members. Now the highest court has ruled: the family matriarch, the ‘Iron Lady of Outjo’, was not legally capable when …Share...

Arrest in Smithfield murder case

Police have arrested a man in connection with the killing last weekend of respected Smithfield community leader, Ounooi Badenhorst, 77. She was shot in her home where she lived alone after the death of her husband Jurie last year. Police …Share this:Click to...

Why Judge Michael Ramodibedi faces impeachment I

MOVE over Judge President John Hlophe; you’ve met your match. You probably thought there could be nothing like Hlophe again in your lifetime: a senior judge under investigation, impeachment a possibility, a series of distasteful court cases, the judge sounding...

Why Judge Michael Ramodibedi faces impeachment II

WHILE South Africans obsess over the Oscar Pistorius trial, a completely different kind of court case is riveting the politically savvy in neighbouring Swaziland and Lesotho. Their leading judge – Michael Ramodibedi is president of the appeal court in Lesotho...