Author: Kennedy Mudzuli

A legal battle emerged in the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria involving the rights to pension benefits following a contentious divorce and untimely death. The case, which has stirred discussions about the complexities of divorce law and pension distribution, centres around the claims against the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF), raised fundamental questions about entitlement and the legal implications post-divorce. The applicant and the deceased —who were married in community of property on 13 April 1991—found themselves at opposite ends of a legal spectrum shortly after their divorce proceedings, which the applicant claims she was unaware of, were finalised in January…

The appeal by Sibongiseni Fano Gwala, who was convicted of multiple counts of rape of minors and robbery, has been dismissed. The High Court in KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, delivered its judgment on 22 November 2024, upholding a life sentence for each of the three counts of rape and 15 years for robbery. Gwala was convicted in the Regional Court of Inkanyezi in June 2021 after being found guilty of raping three young females, all under the age of 16, and further charged with an aggravated robbery. The evidence presented illustrated a harrowing account of how the girls, returning from school, were…