Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday paid tribute to Chief Justice Zondo who is retiring at the end of August after a distinguished judicial career spanning 27 years Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s legal fraternity has widely welcomed Justice Mandisa Maya’s appointment as the first woman Chief Justice in the country's history Full text...

Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice  has issued a landmark decision in a case of enforced disappearance in The Gambia during the regime of former Gambian President Yahya Jamme, PANA reported here Monday Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Justice Minister Ronald Lamola has announced that the inquest into the death of former anti-apartheid activist Chief Albert Luthuli will be reopened Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Convicted killer Oscar Pistorius was granted parole on Friday but he will be released from prison Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has reacted with outrage at the refusal by the UAE to extradite the fugitive Gupta brothers Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) on Thursday dismissed former President Jacob Zuma's attempts to challenges his corruption prosecution, just 11 days before he is due in the dock Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma's lawyers will Tuesday argue his appeal against a court ruling ordering his return to jail Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday said former President Jacob Zuma was not eligible for the medical parole that saw him released from prison Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) on Wednesday launched an application to declare that the decision to grant former President Jacob Zuma medical parole is unlawful and is set aside Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African businessman has filed an application in the North Gauteng High Court against Malawian prophet, Shepherd Bushiri, claiming that the fugitive pastor has failed to pay him for a US$5 million contract Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A group of Mozambican civil society organisations (CSOs) have approached the North Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, South Africa, to stop the extradition of Mozambique's former Finance Minister, Manuel Chang Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The United States on Wednesday expressed its disappointment at South Africa's decision to extradite former Mozambican Finance minister Manuel Chang to Maputo Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A group calling for the release of former President Jacob Zuma from prison has urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to act against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, his Cabinet and several ministers and generals Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There has been widespread reaction to the Constitutional Court decision to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to 15-months imprisonment for contempt of court Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Western Cape High Court has ordered Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue to pay a South African man US$2 Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Monday asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former South Africa President Jacob Zuma to two years behind bars for contempt Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Former President Jacob Zuma of South Africa on Monday said he would not be participating in the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture’s urgent Constitutional Court case compelling him to testify before the commission next year Full text...

Tunis,Tunisia (PANA) - Human rights groups have hailed Morocco's highest court for examining the case of 19 Sahrawi men imprisoned since 2010 after violent clashes with the police Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's former Prosecutor General, Jean Bosco Mutangana, has been released a few days after his  arrest last week over forged judicial documents, the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) spokesperson, Thierry Murangira, confirmed  in a statement on Tuesday in Kigali Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)  - Rwanda Public Prosecution Authority on Friday confirmed the arrest of former minister of education and head of several Government agencies, Dr Daphrose Gahakwa, on corruption charges Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -   Rwanda's former  Presidential Guard commander, Col Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The inquest into the 1982 death of anti-Apartheid activist Dr Neil Aggett will re-convene on 20 January in the Gauteng High Court Full text...

Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The trial of Capt Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan media owner and manager of Kigali-based GoodRich TV, who disappeared recently while being sought by Rwandan justice over his alleged involvement in assaulting a female employee, has on his own surrendered to the police, a judicial source confirmed on Friday in Kigali Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has rrested a Nigerian lecturer, currently serving at the University of Rwanda, Nyagatare Campus in North Eastern Rwanda, over an allegation of defilement, according to local media reports in the region on Sunday Full text...

Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, on Saturday joined the chorus of condemnation following the deadly terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday Full text...