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Labour: Strike threat over steel industry wages deadlock
SA’s economy could suffer more harm if the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) carries out its threat to strike for higher pay in the...
Aug 12, 2021


Sport: More racism, sexism claims at cricket inquiry
Divisions and mistrust at provincial level were placed under the spotlight at Cricket SA’s Social Justice and Nation Building hearings...
Aug 5, 2021


Litigation: ConCourt likely route on election postponement
The Electoral Commission (IEC) says approaching the Constitutional Court to grant it approval to defer the municipal elections would...
Aug 5, 2021


Constitutional: Non-citizens fight for right to practise law
Three Zimbabwe-born law graduates, who cannot practise because they are not ‘permanent residents’ or SA citizens, have launched a...
Aug 5, 2021


Practice: Business group challenges courts 'shut-down'
Lobby group Sakeliga is demanding intervention by the Chief Justice, Magistrates’ Commission, and Minister of Justice in the lower courts...
Aug 5, 2021


Litigation: Gynecologist cleared of Down syndrome birth liability
For eight years, a Johannesburg gynecologist faced a multimillion-rand claim after one of his patients gave birth to a baby with Down...
Jul 30, 2021


Litigation: High Courts told to hear Credit Act issues
The SCA has ruled that High Courts are obliged to hear any matter that falls within their jurisdiction, including National Credit Act...
Jul 30, 2021


Covid-19 crisis: Police lock-up working doctor for breaking curfew
An ear, nose, and throat specialist spent a night in the Edenvale police holding cells with four other people. He was accused of...
Jul 30, 2021


Litigation: Vaccine procurement not for state alone, court told
The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) says there is no rule or condition that grants exclusive rights to the government to...
Jul 30, 2021


General: Police searches to recover stolen property questioned
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute (Seri) has expressed concern with the police raids on people’s homes in Sebokeng, near the Vaal, in...
Jul 30, 2021


Litigation: Customary marriage requirements again clarified
Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) Acting Judge EK Tsatsi has again confirmed there does not need to be a specific list of requirements which...
Jul 16, 2021


General: Elections registration now at end of month
In an announcement that a City Press report says has serious implications for the holding of the local government elections, which have...
Jul 16, 2021


Litigation: 'Decuplets mom' asks court to order hospital discharge
Moliehi Maria Sithole, also known as Gosiame Thamara, and her husband, Teboho Tsotetsi, the pair at the center of the decuplets saga,...
Jul 16, 2021


Litigation: Get the Gazette out, court orders state printers
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has ordered the Government Printing Works (GPW) – beset by technical glitches that affected the...
Jul 16, 2021


Litigation: 'Bullying' magistrate abused judicial powers – ruling
A magistrate who ordered police to arrest and detain a father for offering to pay R300 for child maintenance has been found to have acted...
Jul 16, 2021


Litigation: Majority saw Zuma threat, minority missed the point
‘Should a court ever be entitled in civil contempt proceedings to sentence an individual to a mandatory jail sentence if that individual...
Jul 9, 2021


Litigation: Home Affairs in court over permanent residence delays
No fewer than 180 would-be immigrants and their immigration services providers are tackling the Department of Home Affairs in court for...
Jul 9, 2021


Tax: Virtual filing season kicks off with SARS promises
Taxpayers will for the first time be confronted with a completely virtual tax filing season due to the onset and impact of the third wave...
Jul 9, 2021


Litigation: Several bids to overturn alcohol sales ban
The government is facing myriad objections to the level four lockdown ban on liquor sales, notes Legalbrief. First to move was Vinpro,...
Jul 9, 2021


Legislation: Equality Act amendments labelled 'ridiculous'
A proposed amendment Bill to promote equality and prevent discrimination has been slammed as ridiculous, unattainable, ideologically...
Jul 2, 2021
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