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Whether Jacob Zuma is in fact terminally ill and whether his ally and former Correctional Services head Arthur Fraser exercised powers he did not have in law when he summarily dismissed a recommendation by the Medical Parole Advisory Board that the former President did not qualify for medical parole were central issues before the SCA yesterday.

Jacob Zuma’s lawyers will be in the SCA today to argue the High Court got it wrong when it decided the former President’s early release from prison on medical parole was unlawful.

A group of evicted KZN flood victims were forced to sleep on the street on Monday night when other displaced people refused to let them back into a hall in Durban.

Last week’s Constitutional Court ruling that declined to invalidate legislation prohibiting non-citizens from working as legal practitioners in SA is troubling and must raise eyebrows in the context of the country’s xenophobic epidemic.

The CCMA is conducting an arbitration hearing to ascertain if a hospital acted unfairly towards a Muslim medical practitioner over her religious beliefs of keeping her arms covered, reports IoL.

An awaiting trial prisoner and accused murderer’s application to have his trial heard at the Western Cape High Court instead of the Pollsmoor Circuit Court has failed, says a Cape Times report.

Five current and former inmates at Leeuwkop Maximum Correctional Centre suing the department for alleged tortured by prison officials were back in the Gauteng Hight Court (Johannesburg) yesterday when they claimed that in August 2014 they sustained injuries at the hands of the officials while they were inmates at Leeuwkop.

The KZN High Court (Pietermaritzburg) yesterday postponed former President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial to allow the Constitutional Court to rule on his latest legal bid to remove Billy Downer as his prosecutor.

The Equality Court has ordered a number of people to apologise to the Chinese community and to pay R50 000 to a Chinese old age home, reports GroundUp.

Western Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe's decision to have a criminal trial heard in Pollsmoor Circuit Court after an awaiting-trial inmate challenged his decision in the High Court has been confirmed.

Lawyers acting on behalf of former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize have accused the SIU of using delaying tactics in the continuing Digital Vibes probe.

The Department of Home Affairs is facing another lawsuit relating to the looming termination of the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP).

Suspected underworld kingpin Nafiz Modack, who is accused of multiple crimes, wants to be moved from the Helderstroom Correctional Centre in Caledon outside Cape Town to a jail closer to the city, reports the Daily Maverick.

The Western Cape High Court has ruled that the City of Cape Town wrongly applied the remedy of ‘counter spoliation’ when it demolished shacks and evicted families from several informal settlements during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The SCA has granted Jovan Evraud Maree (36) special leave to appeal his conviction and sentence for the rape of a woman (23) after he was found guilty and sentenced in the Parow Regional Court.