Legal Articles and Guides

By midnight on 30 June 2021 you must be fully compliant with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) if you in any way process any personal information relating to a “data subject”. Very few businesses and organisations will fall outside that net, and even fewer will fall into any of the exemptions. The risks of non-compliance are substantial.

The Public Protector is on a legal losing streak with the latest setback coming in the Labour Court, which has ruled against her in a dispute involving two staff members.

Despite his buoyant attitude following the postponement of his criminal trial for corruption last week, Jacob Zuma has a lot on his plate, including a legal bill mountain that awaits settlement. 

SARS’ continued attack on the ability of taxpayers to claim relief for the education costs of the disabled has been described as ‘mean and disrespectful’, according to a Moneyweb report.

The Road Accident Fund (RAF) will no longer accept claims without a list of required documents such as accident reports, according to legal writer Zelda Venter in a Pretoria News report.

Civil society organisation, the Liberty Fighters Network, has taken offence at a decision by the SCA to hold an appeal hearing virtually, and not in person, in a matter on the validity of lockdown regulations, reports City Press.

More than 30 black farmers in Tafelkop, Limpopo, were handed title deeds by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday after 25 years of struggling to own the farms.

Billboards advertising Diesel jeans have been allowed by the advertising watchdog after two consumers complained about their ‘sexually-charged’ images.

Unisa has told the Constitutional Court of the range of impracticalities it would face if compelled to reinstate Afrikaans as a language of teaching and learning alongside English, according to a report in The Star.

Unisa is heading to the Constitutional Court to defend its decision to drop Afrikaans from being guaranteed bilingual use with English at the country’s biggest higher education institution, says a Weekend Argus report. 

The sensitive issue of whether the head of the Motheo College in Bloemfontein and former board member of education authority Umalusi may call herself ‘professor’ will be examined in the Free State High Court today.

Molefe Rufaro Mthulisi Dlodlo is taking on the justice system over the ‘discriminatory’ practice against self-representing litigants like himself.

The SCA has dismissed Nigerian national Anthony Nwafor’s attempt to set aside the decision to deprive him and his minor children of their citizenship in SA, says a Cape Times report.

Expectant parents who lose a pregnancy before 26 weeks (the age set by the Births and Deaths Registration Act (BADRA) in its definition of “still-born”) have until now had no right to bury their foetus, which had to be incinerated as “medical waste”.

The Department of Home Affairs has filed the record of its decision to refuse to issue one of the Gupta brothers with a South African passport.