The ANC and nine other parties yesterday rubbished DA claims that the reversal of the VAT hike is a victory resulting from the DA's court case earlier this week. The IFP, ActionSA, Pan Africanist Congress, Rise Mzansi, BOSA, UDM ... Read More

A court has ordered the SARB to release R200m it was holding from Steinhoff's successor, Ibex, ruling the central bank couldn't give sound legal reasons why the funds had been blocked. Fin24 reports that in a ruling this ... Read More

The SCA has ruled the City of Johannesburg acted unreasonably by seeking to subject the relocation of 71 illegal occupiers to a condition that prevents them from earning a living at the temporary emergency accommodation. A TimesLIVE report says the ... Read More

The Presidency has, in a statement, said President Cyril Ramaphosa has initiated consultation with the JSC and leaders of political parties represented in the National Assembly on the appointment of a Deputy Chief Justice, reports Wyndham Hartley. Section 174(3 ... Read More

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has announced his intention to shortly introduce the Rates and Monetary Amounts and the Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill which will scrap the proposed VAT increase, writes Wyndham Hartley. The Bill proposes to maintain the Value-Added Tax ... Read More

SCA: City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality v Occupiers of Farm Randjesfontein Judgment: 23 April 2025 Keywords: Property law – Eviction of unlawful occupiers – Emergency temporary accommodation – Whether a municipality is obliged to consider an unlawful occupier's right ... Read More

Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg): Cadac Pension Fund and Others v Nash, Cadac (Pty) Ltd, NMG Administrators, Integrity Retirement Fund Administrators (Pty) Ltd and Others Judgment: 16 April 2025 Keywords: Pension funds – Curatorship – Decision by curators to treat fund ... Read More

Western Cape High Court: Van der Westhuizen and Others v Life Healthcare Holdings Group Pty Ltd and Others Judgment: 15 April 2025 Keywords: Administrative law – Private hospital – Decision to terminate practising privileges of specialist oncologist – Whether constituting ... Read More

A father found guilty of almost 800 charges relating to the possession of child pornography, the rape of his own daughter, and human trafficking was sentenced to double life imprisonment in the Eastern Cape High Court (Gqeberha) yesterday. He was ... Read More

The nine people arrested at the Beitbridge Port of Entry on Tuesday, including two Border Management Authority (BMA) immigration officials, appeared in the Musina Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday. According to police spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba, the suspects were arrested for ... Read More

Judgment on who the rightful leaders of the National Alliance (NA) are was reserved in the Eastern Cape High Court (Gqeberha) yesterday. The Herald reports the factions – one led by president Gary van Niekerk, who is fending off a ... Read More

Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana announced in his revised Budget speech that the total budget for Basic Education amounts to R349.5bn for 2025-26. Worldwide, says Stellenbosch University’s Emeritus Professor Michael le Cordeur, governments spend a significant part of their ... Read More

Schools should be a safe environment, a place of learning where children can develop their potential. In SA, many public schools are not like this. Instead they are hothouses for teachers’ poor performance, financial mismanagement, assault and sexual misconduct. ‘Teachers ... Read More

The Tanzanian Government has imposed an immediate ban on the importation of all agricultural produce from SA and Malawi, following the two countries’ failure to lift trade restrictions on Tanzanian farm products. According to the Daily News Tanzania, the decision ... Read More

US President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered the closure of a US agency that invested billions in African and other developing countries' infrastructure in return for good governance, effectively ceding ground to China, reports News24. The Millennium Challenge ... Read More

Nigeria will fully automate its expatriate residence permit process from 1 May, a move aimed at significantly speeding up approvals and reducing opportunities for corruption, said Interior Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo. According to TimesLIVE, critics said the current system for obtaining ... Read More

Eight Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks this week, with the support of International Rights Advocates (IRA), seeking financial compensation for the ... Read More

Harvey Weinstein’s #MeToo retrial opened on Wednesday, giving a new jury a fresh look at familiar rape and sexual assault allegations – plus a newly added claim. A report in The Guardian notes that for the first time, prosecutors publicly ... Read More

Prosecutors have indicted former South Korean President Moon Jae-in on charges of bribery related to his former son-in-law's job at an airline. A BBC News report notes that prosecutors argue his former son-in-law, identified only by his surname Seo ... Read More

* A former Spar manager and a bookkeeper have appeared in the Gqeberha Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on charges of fraud amounting to R2.3m. Nicole Bekker and Chantelle Erasmus were arrested on Wednesday and appeared in court the same day ... Read More

* Mozambican national Nelson Sandile Sambo has been jailed for 20 years for rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park. Sambo was arrested by SA National Parks field rangers in December 2020 after he and an accomplice shot and then hacked ... Read More

The Challenges of Legal Process Outsourcing and its Regulation in South Africa Murtuza, R | Ebook ISBN: 9781485151951; Print ISBN: 9781485150589 The Challenges of Legal Process Outsourcing and its Regulation in South Africa explores the rapid growth of legal outsourcing as ... Read More