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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.

Business Unity SA (Busa) has reiterated its call for the UIF to be placed under administration immediately because it is failing to pay benefits to workers, many of whom wait for months or even years to be paid.

The DA won its first battle in the Cabinet last Friday when President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered that the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) be postponed for further negotiations.

The worst kept secret in politics was finally made official on Friday when, barely a week after resigning as EFF MP and telling its leadership she needed time with her family, former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane joined former President Jacob Zuma's MKP.

Impeached former Public Protector (PP) Busisiwe Mkhwebane is leaving the EFF, the party she represented in Parliament for the past year.

Although the MKP is refusing to back down in its bid to block the JSC from interviewing prospective judges – until the legal battles over impeached Judge President John Hlophe's suitability to serve on the body are finalised – its chances of succeeding are slim, according to legal experts.

AfriForum has requested the DA and FF Plus to reconsider their participation in the GNU should the clause in the Basic Education Laws Amendment (Bela) Act that it says threatens the continued existence of Afrikaans in schools, be implemented unchanged.

ActionSA will lay criminal charges against Justice Minister Thembi Simelane following revelations that the agreement for the loan she received from a VBS fixer was allegedly backdated, reports News24.

Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber ultimately wants to dispense with the need for visits to Home Affairs offices and have all routine services conducted online.

Justice & Constitutional Development Minister Thembi Simelane has assured Parliament that she has no authority to interfere in any VBS-related prosecutions, according to EWN.

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surnames of their wives after Free State High Court (Bloemfontein) Judge Joseph Mhlambi overturned the provisions of an outdated law which prohibited this.

In what a Pretoria News report says is yet another legal victory for those whose ID documents were illegally blocked by Home Affairs, the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), has once again ordered the department to unblock the IDs of 142 clients of Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR).

A man’s conviction and jail sentence for dagga possession has been overturned after a magistrate applied a law that was declared unconstitutional 29 years ago, reports The Citizen.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will meet business organisations in the coming days to discuss their objections to the National Health Insurance (NHI), following a request from Business Unity SA (Busa).

Court challenges to his designation to the JSC were ‘hopelessly unmeritorious’, said John Hlophe in papers filed in the Western Cape High Court last week.