Schreiber to launch passport doorstep deliveries

The Department of Home Affairs will, for the first time, offer doorstep deliveries of passports starting next month, reports News24.

Concern over delay in providing Family Advocate's report

As SA faces a growing crisis of corruption and dysfunction within its policing system, concerns are being raised about similar patterns in the Office of the Family Advocate, reports The Star.

Law clinics under pressure from asylum seekers

Law clinics are overwhelmed with queries from asylum seekers blocked from accessing SA’s asylum system. Asylum seekers are required to apply for an asylum seeker’s permit (also known as a section 22 permit) in person at a Refugee Reception Office within five days of arriving in SA.

Date set for refugees' eviction hearing

An application to evict hundreds of refugees from emergency accommodation at Wingfield in Maitland and Paint City in Bellville, Cape Town has been set down for a hearing on 13 April 2026, reports GroundUp.

ConCourt to hear key sexual offences ‘consent’ case

The issue of ‘consent’ in sexual offences, including rape, will be in the spotlight in the Constitutional Court this week. According to GroundUp, the justices, hearing the arguments, have to grapple with how far to take the law when it comes to perpetrators alleging, they believed that the victims had said, or had indicated through their actions or inactions, that they were saying, ‘yes’.

Transgender prisoner files legal bid against state

A transgender inmate is hauling the Department of Correctional Services to court after she says she was misgendered, bullied and refused access to gender-affirming healthcare by officials at the Johannesburg Prison.

Malema ruling offers legally sound guidance

The Constitutional Court declined to hear the appeal in AfriForum v EFF and Others, a case centred on the struggle song 'Dubul’ ibhunu' ('Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer') in March 2025.

Public allowed to video police actions

A ruling in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has strengthened the rights of civilians in their interactions with police officers.

Transgender prisoner files Equality Court case

A transgender prisoner serving a life sentence at Johannesburg’s Sun City Prison will turn to the Equality Court in a bid to receive gender-affirming care, in the form of hormone replacement therapy, reports The Star.

Modack wants new judge in tax matter

Alleged underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack is pushing for the recusal of Judge Mark Sher, who is expected to preside over his tax matter trial.

De Kock wins Cradock four inquest funding battle

The taxpayer will have to foot the bill for litigation between the police and apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock after their decision to refuse him legal funding for the Cradock Four inquest was reviewed and set aside by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria).

Home Affairs taken to court over birth registrations backlog

At least 250 000 people have been waiting years for their applications for late birth registration to be processed. And this is a conservative estimate, the Children’s Institute says in its papers filed with the Western Cape High Court, according to a GroundUp report.

Bromwell Street evictions placed on hold

Residents of Woodstock’s Bromwell Street, who have waged an eight-year legal battle to stop them from being evicted from the houses they, and generations before them, have always called home, celebrated after the Constitutional Court barred their eviction until the City of Cape Town has developed a new housing programme, incorporating transitional housing.

Businessman wins battle to keep his firearms

The police’s second attempt to retain Paterson businessman Jacques Verwey’s legal firearms has failed, and they must now comply with a court order to return his guns as soon as possible.

Judgment reserved in Stilfontein urgent interdict

It is unreasonable for illegal miners in Stilfontein to expect medical treatment and food to be brought to them while they remain underground to avoid arrest — and none of them have complained about their constitutional rights being violated, the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) heard yesterday.

Property recognised as a family home

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has recognised property as a family home, and thus protected the rights of a family who was facing possible eviction.

Ramaphosa refers Copyright Bill to ConCourt

President Cyril Ramaphosa has referred a Bill that could make published work more accessible for the blind or visually impaired to the Constitutional Court, reports The Citizen.

Home Affairs urged to revoke lawmaker’s SA citizenship

The African Transformation Movement (ATM) has criticised Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber for failing to act against Phil Craig, leader of the Cape Independence Advocacy Group (Ciag).

Husbands can adopt wives’ surnames

Two men have been given the green light to use the surnames of their wives after Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Judge Joseph Mhlambi overturned the provisions of an outdated law which prohibited this.

Deadline to appeal wrongfully blocked IDs

Members of the public have less than 30 days to submit their appeals on why their identity documents have been wrongfully blocked, depriving them of accessing key governmental and other services.