Legal Articles and Guides

A farm owner who attempted to evict pensioner Katie Moyeni (73), despite the fact she had stayed and worked at the farm since 1997, has failed in the SCA.

The 60 waste pickers who live next to SuperSport Park in Centurion – informally known as Mushroomville – have failed in their first step to ask the court for a lifeline to remain on the land.

The collective of artists and LGBTQI+ people occupying an Airbnb house in Camps Bay have been ordered to vacate the luxury property, says a News24 report.

Landlords and tenants alike should understand the regulations applicable to tenant evictions during the National State of Disaster. Many tenants are of course finding it hard to meet their monthly rental commitments, whilst landlords still have to fund their ongoing expenses and will be keen to be rid of problem tenants preventing them from doing so.

What happens if you lend your car to a friend (or, as happened in the High Court dispute we will refer to, a lover) who refuses point blank to give it back when asked to do so? Can you simply go to court and say “Here are the registration papers. They prove that it’s my car so no matter what, I am the owner and entitled to get it back, end of argument”?

Judgment has been reserved in Cape Town’s leave to appeal a judgment in August by the Western Cape High Court that granted an interim interdict against the city from carrying out any evictions or demolishing of shacks.

LGBTQ+ organisation the Triangle Project said it would be engaging in discussions with social justice movement #WeSeeYou, who have occupied a Camps Bay, Cape Town, mansion.

The City of Cape Town has served eviction notices on a group of residents who invaded a piece of land next to Joe Slovo in Langa.

A motorist with two million-rand cars was so irked when he found they were too expensive to qualify for a R505 bonsella that he submitted a formal complaint.

Action would be taken to ensure women who were forcibly sterilised received redress, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said this week.

Expelled Rhodes University student Yolanda Dyantyi has been granted leave to take her fight against her permanent exclusion all the way to the SCA.

The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is taking the EFF and its leader Julius Malema to the Equality Court over a social media post shared on the party's platforms last year, says a News24 report.

Sasha-Lee Heekes and Megan Watling, who were refused access to Beloftebos as a wedding venue because they are a same-sex couple and the owners say supporting a same-sex marriage is against their Christian beliefs, have intervened in Human Rights Commission (HRC) action against the venue.

There is no right to have an ongoing trial postponed for a lengthy period to allow an accused an opportunity to acquire income to secure the services of a preferred legal representative.

The personal data of millions of South Africans, ‘stolen’ in one of SA's biggest data breaches, remains on the Internet, despite assurances the information had been recovered, notes the Sunday Times.