An Irish man is staring down a potential two-year sentence in Dubai – all for daring to post a less-than-flattering review of a dog grooming business from his homeland.
In fact, they arrested four motorists who racked up just shy of R500,000 in unpaid fines, warrants and contempt of court penalties.
While the intention is good, the ripple effect of banning alcohol sales to under-21s is surely going to be met with resistance from not only young people but hundreds of establishments that rely on the young crowds to survive.
A pivotal constitutional battle over the Sexual Offence Act has reached its conclusion in the Pretoria High Court, where a landmark ruling declared that the defence of “believed consent” will no longer hold ground.
Finally, laws banning same-sex acts between men have been ruled unconstitutional in Namibia.
Lock your doors and hide your wallets as thousands of prisoners have been set free, many of whom were imprisoned for housebreaking, theft, assault, and drug-related crimes.
Those who didn’t know about the city’s animal by-laws might be shocked to hear that any dog that barks continuously for three minutes in a 30-minute period is considered a problem and the owner may get a R500 fine.
“It’s a joke. This law was someone’s expression of moral outrage.”
In some parts of London, where finding a good rental space is already a bit of a nightmare, landlords are really ‘taking the p*ss’ and targeting renters with ‘no-sex’ clauses in their tenancy agreements.
A Nedbank employee was jailed after being caught helping herself to R5.3 million of the bank’s money, while another woman was sentenced for stealing R9 million from a mining company.
Superbalist is in hot water after two local designers found the large e-commerce website had copied their designs to sell a cheaper copy for a profit without any compensation or acknowledgement.
The BBC received rare footage showing North Korea publicly sentencing two teenage boys to 12 years of hard labour for watching these illicit shows from the South.
A Pretoria businessman has been accused of living a high life with fancy cars and a swanky house while conveniently forgetting to pay his ex-wife’s spousal maintenance, his two kids’ school fees, and some other bills.
They might all be enjoying their last Christmas as free people.
The state argues that multimillion-rand fraudster Hildegard Steenkamp deserves to be imprisoned for 25 years for living a lavish and deceitful life, as well as to instil faith in the criminal justice system.
This is everything you need to know about the new laws for domestic workers that were signed into law in April 2023.
It has been two years since the tragic case of a mother allegedly killing her three daughters shortly after moving from South Africa to New Zealand.
The self-crowned “king of toxic masculinity” decided to start doing business in Romania because he reckoned he could get away with absolutely anything there.
The best and most surprising part of Amazon Prime Video Freevee’s new mockumentary-style series from the makers of ‘The Office’ is that it created a fledgling TV star out of an average dude from nowhere.
A former stockbroker suffering from PTSD and depression finally received his claim from Discovery Life after he was left ‘totally and permanently unable’ to work.
The 57-year-old was arrested before, but clearly thought she was above the law or something and continued her revolting antics.
A South African woman faces up to 15 years imprisonment in Georgia after she was arrested for travelling without her prescription for the medication she takes.
In the lawsuit, an ex-dancer details how she “was in pieces” after the “host”, Gino, forced her into a private room with a “loyal customer”.
An investigation was launched for a missing lawyer after the detectives noted the “strange circumstances surrounding this incident”.
Cape Town’s high court has cracked down on the vice president of Equatorial Guinea, seizing two homes and a superyacht that belonged to him.
Toddlers and semi-automatic guns should not exist in the same space together. Meanwhile, in America.
More victims speak out against ex-teacher with links to South Africa after BBC programme exposes his abuse at British schools.
Mitigating the effects of load shedding aside, a new problem has arisen; the grating noise that someone’s generator produces.
Jolie is the anonymous “Jane Doe” who filed the 2016 lawsuit against the FBI trying to figure out why Brad Pitt wasn’t arrested after her assault allegations.
A witness said the policemen hit the man until he “went to the floor then carried on beating him with batons even when he was down”.