As part of its ongoing criminal investigation into complex corruption at Eskom, the NPA’s Investigating Directorate (ID) has finalised a comprehensive settlement agreement with ABB to pay over R2,5 billion in punitive reparations to South Africa. This settlement represents a bold and innovative step towards accountability and justice for alleged offenders, particularly in the form of restitution for the serious crimes committed at Eskom during the state capture period. 

As part of its ongoing criminal investigation into complex corruption at Eskom, the NPA’s Investigating Directorate (ID) has finalised a comprehensive settlement agreement with ABB to pay over R2,5 billion in punitive reparations to South Africa. This settlement represents a bold and innovative step towards accountability and justice for alleged offenders, particularly in the form of restitution for the serious crimes committed at Eskom during the state capture period. 

State Capture was devastating, and organised crime is rampant. But South Africa is the Comeback Kid. The National Prosecuting Authority is working with its partners to restore the rule of law and regain public confidence that justice can become the norm rather than the exception in our country.

South Africa has a serious crime problem. And it’s getting worse. Violent and commercial crime levels are soaring and criminals are becoming more brazen and sophisticated.

The Pietermaritzburg High Court has sentenced Martin Grieb (41), to an effective 25-year imprisonment, after he pleaded guilty to the murder of Vernon Viviers (59), in August 2022, in the Prestbury area of Pietermaritzburg. Grieb and Viviers knew each other through Grieb’s girlfriend, Jade Ashli Barnard, who worked at Viviers’ takeaway. On the day of the incident, both Grieb and Barnard approached Viviers at the takeaway shop, demanding an advance payment in Barnard’s daily pay.

In a third gender-based violence and femicide case in two days, the High Court of South Africa: Western Cape Division convicted Babsy Ntamehlo, for the murder of his estranged wife over a dispute over an RDP house. Earlier,  Ntamehlo threatened to strangle his wife, Nosicelo Tsipa, kill her and burn her body in the early hours. He told his friend Nyameko Sixhozi, “I wish to strangle this to death around the early hours of the morning and burn her body next to the river close to us, my brother.