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A Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) judgment has set new guidelines for courts to take into consideration before granting surrogacy agreements.

The Western Cape, and Cape Town in particular, has topped the list in terms of the number of racism complaints submitted to the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority.

Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane's term as Public Protector will come to an end next year after seven years in office that have been largely defined by ‘scathing rulings that invalidated her most politically explosive reports’.

A day after being exposed for allegedly having lied on his official CV about being a graduate of the prestigious University of London, former top spy Arthur Fraser said that he had, in fact, obtained his degree from the London College of Communication in 1995.

The role of songs in performance politics and how the struggle history intersects with the present was dissected in the Equality Court on Friday through the testimony of African literature scholar Professor Elizabeth Gunner, reports TimesLIVE.

Selborne College in East London is taking on Education Department head Dr Naledi Mbude in court after she refused to implement a recommendation that the school be allowed to directly expel two grade 10 pupils who stabbed another pupil.

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The Mpumalanga High Court (Mbombela) has ruled that the case against a school accused of unfairly discriminating against a learner who disclosed she had a same-sex lover should be re-enrolled at the Equality Court and heard to finality, says a report in The Star.

The Constitutional Court has reserved judgment in an application for the right to bury the remains of a foetus.

Journalist Piet Rampedi’s June 2021 story about a Tembisa mother giving birth to decuplets in a world first not only put Independent Media’s reputation at risk but also 'seriously compromised’ trust in SA media.

The City of Cape Town says it will approach the Constitutional Court to challenge a part of the Disaster Management Act (DMA) regulations following an increase in unlawful occupations.

It may not be as advisable to drive a wedge between children and their parents as the Department of Health appears to believe. Caution should be exercised in providing medical treatment to children and when this is proposed without parental participation or consent, it must be understood that the children require special assistance to make informed decisions. Without proper safeguards there are potentially far-reaching legal consequences for implementing this policy.

SA universities have entered the contested discourse of whether to mandate the Covid-19 vaccine for the safe return of students and staff to campuses or not.

‘I believe it is high time that people like Gabriella Johnson and the nameless owner of the property who discriminated against Pol Osei are prosecuted in accordance with the Rental Housing Act and given harsh sentences, including a period of imprisonment. This might sound harsh, but in the absence of serious consequences, racists landowners and estate agents will continue to cling to the myth that they are doing nothing wrong.’

After years of litigation against the Justice Department's policy of excluding whites from appointments, Solidarity notes Minister Ronald Lamola has appointed Martin Kroukamp as a senior magistrate.