Legal Articles and Guides

Unilever, which supplies TRESemmé products in SA, and the EFF reached mutual ground on the future of the hair-care brand yesterday, says TimesLIVE. While large retailers such as Shoprite Checkers, Pick n Pay and Clicks had agreed to pull TRESemmé products from their shelves after an alleged racist advertisement by the brand, Unilever and the EFF have agreed that these products can be put back on shelves in 10 days' time.

For any black couple who married before 1988 in the country, chances are their union remains out of community of property, in line with apartheid’s Black Administration Act (BAA).

Gonubie businessman Garry Rieger must pay R60 000 in damages plus legal costs for pepper-spraying fellow motorist Clint van der Westhuizen, calling him the p-word and telling him to ‘go back to Duncan Village and drive there, you poes’.

‘Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the plague of inhumane evictions is becoming its own epidemic in SA. Notwithstanding the lockdown regulations, evictions are, disturbingly, on the rise. There are daily accounts of government agencies pitching up at informal settlements, heavily armed, and razing all shacks (empty or occupied).’

A man sentenced to 25 years in jail for money laundering has failed in his bid to be released on parole as part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s proclamation to release ‘low-risk’ offenders to ease overcrowding in prisons during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The City of Cape Town has filed an application for leave to appeal an interim interdict, which prohibits it from removing illegal land occupiers without a court order, says a News24 report.

Do the Public Protector's powers to subpoena extend to taxpayer information? This is the conundrum that will face the Constitutional Court tomorrow when the justices will hear an application for leave to appeal by the Public Protector against a Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) judgment in March which held that taxpayer information was confidential.

A landmark judgment has set aside the sale of the Tafelberg school property in Sea Point, ordering the Western Cape Government and City of Cape Town to ‘address the legacy of apartheid spatial planning in central Cape Town and its surrounds’.

A 91-year-old Durban multimillionaire racehorse owner and businessman has fought off a bid by his children and brother, Robin, to appoint a curator to handle his financial affairs.

Cape Town Mayor Dan Plato says the city will appeal a judgment yesterday removing the City of Cape Town's right to protect property from land invasion.

Leaving a summons lying on the grass where it can blow away or not be noticed is not the appropriate way to serve it, especially if the document involves something as big as the possibility of losing one’s home.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s bid to access former President Jacob Zuma’s tax records, particularly those relating to his apparent moonlighting as an employee of Royal Security, will be heard in the Constitutional Court on 3 September, reports Marianne Thamm for the Daily Maverick.

Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo has ordered a ‘full court’ hearing of the Legal Practice Council’s refusal of an application for conversion from an advocate to an attorney.

The SA Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has confirmed that credit bureau Experian suffered a data attack which ‘has exposed some personal information of as many as 24m South Africans’.

Smokers, who argue that they are good enough for excise duty used to fund the healthcare system, have applied to the Constitutional Court for direct access to have their pleas heard, Beeld reports.