More than eight years after a matric pupil was severely injured in a horror car crash, her family is still fighting for the Road Accident Fund (RAF) to make good on the more than R11m settlement to which it initially agreed.
When a Gqeberha company fumigated a Kabega Park home, leading to the horrific deaths of two children, it was allegedly not registered to work with the odourless yet deadly methyl bromide.
Discussions behind closed doors at the Gqeberha high court on Thursday led to an interim court interdict stopping the IEC and Nelson Mandela Bay municipality from filling Northern Alliance president Gary van Niekerk’s position as the matter was extended to October 27 for arguments.
A warrant of arrest was issued for Stephanus “Fanie” de Lange, the man at the centre of one of the city’s most sensational murder trials more than two decades ago, after he was a no-show at his R4.5m fraud case on Wednesday.