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The Gupta mansion in Cape Town which was bought earlier this year by a European business person, is undergoing extensive renovations. After the Guptas fled SA, the property was neglected, with cracks ...

South African Acting Judge Malose Monene was faced with an application to decide whether a then 17-year-old woman who married a soldier in 1970 in terms of customary law in Zimbabwe is deemed to be ...

South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe and his associate companies are being sued for $195m in Tanzania. One of the biggest lawsuits in the country’s Commercial Court is set to resume today.

Scenes of young Nigerians fainting while in court for their involvement in widespread anti-government protests have sparked controversy over detention conditions and police violence. On Friday, 76 ...

Air Tanzania Company Ltd (ATCL) is set to resume flights between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg this month following settlement of a long-standing dispute, The Citizen (Tanzania) reports. Initially, ...

South African financial services provider FirstRand has asked the UK's Supreme Court for permission to challenge recent appeal court rulings against the London branch of its MotoNovo car financier on ...

A Nigerian investigative panel has dismissed allegations that transgender socialite Bobrisky, sentenced to six months in jail for abusing the national currency, lived in a flat outside prison and did ...

Rwandan genocide suspect Fulgence Kayishema was transferred out of Pollsmoor Prison in SA due to a threat to his life, the state revealed in the Cape Town Regional Court last week. However, without ...

The lawyer for a prominent Mozambique opposition figure has been shot dead in Maputo, along with a party official. Elvino Dias was the attorney for Venâncio Mondlane, who ran for President ...