In June 2017, a Walter Sisulu University student was due to receive her monthly NSFAS food allowance of R1 400. Instead, more than R14 million appeared in her student account. Over the weeks that followed, she spent about R818 000 of it. In 2022 the East London Regional Court convicted her of theft. On appeal, the Eastern Cape High Court confirmed that conviction, although it replaced her prison term with a wholly suspended sentence. Most of us will never wake up to R14 milli

Introduction It is usually one page. It arrives tucked into a credit application, a lease or a supplier account. Someone says "it's just standard", and you sign. That page may be a deed of suretyship. With one signature, you have promised to pay another person's or company's debt out of your own pocket if they do not. Your house, your savings and your car can all be on the line for a debt you never personally incurred. Suretyships are among the most common documents in South

There is a particular kind of fear that comes with not knowing where someone you love is. The unanswered calls. The hours that stretch past when they said they would be home. The question that will not let you rest: are they safe? If you are living through that right now, you are not alone, and you are not powerless. There are clear, practical steps you can take immediately, and legal protections designed to help you take them. Recent events in Ekurhuleni have once again plac