Legal Articles and Guides

A ruling in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has strengthened the rights of civilians in their interactions with police officers.

A transgender prisoner serving a life sentence at Johannesburg’s Sun City Prison will turn to the Equality Court in a bid to receive gender-affirming care, in the form of hormone replacement therapy, reports The Star.

Cyntheria Rex’s life mattered and her family has the right to see justice. These are the words of Ilitha Labantu – which advocates for the rights of women and children – as the longest running murder case in a Regional Court in SA continues to drag.

The DA has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to fire – with immediate effect – Higher Education & Training Minister Nobuhle Nkabane, claiming ‘brazen’ cadre deployment appointments to the boards of the Sector Education and Training Authorities (Setas).

President Cyril Ramaphosa can take credit for his role for steering SA away from a full-blown race war in the 1990s, but he walked into a Donald Trump trap in the Oval Office yesterday.

Civil rights organisation AfriForum yesterday filed an application in the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) to challenge the constitutionality of the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, reports Polity.

The SCA has found that retired gardener Jacob Pieters and his wife can continue living on a smallholding in Stellenbosch because their land rights are protected under the Extension of Security of Tenure Act (Esta).

The symbolic wedding of a married woman to a second husband in Ballito, KZN, has reignited debate over gender equality, cultural norms and legal inconsistencies in SA’s marriage laws, reports The Citizen.

A Pretoria law firm has turned to the Constitutional Court in an urgent bid to overturn a directive introducing mandatory mediation in the Gauteng High Court.

A case in which two men are seeking to take their wives’ surnames was heard in the Constitutional Court yesterday. According to the Daily Maverick, the couples at the centre of the application claim in court papers that the Births and Deaths Registration Act of 1992, which provides for a change in the surname only when there is a change in the marital status of a woman, is unconstitutional.

A gay Cape Town imam was shot dead in Gqeberha hours before he was to allegedly marry a lesbian couple. Muhsin Hendricks was apparently on his way to marry a gay interfaith couple after several local imams in the city had refused to marry them.

The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in a case concerning housing activists against the City of Cape Town and others, regarding the Tafelberg site in Sea Point.

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.