The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has postponed a hearing on the detention of undocumented foreigners intending to apply for asylum from 29 October to 16 to 18 November. ‘The postponement has become necessary due to the substantial expansion of the ... Read More
Gauteng High Court Judge Nana Makhubele has pushed back on civil society group Unite Behind’s assertion that her legal bid to halt Parliament’s consideration of her impeachment poses serious harm to the National Assembly’s constitutional mandate regarding judicial accountability. TimesLIVE ... Read More
President Cyril Ramaphosa has not been summoned to appear before Justice Sisi Khampepe after submitting an affidavit explaining why he did not agree to a request for six years to establish an inquiry to investigate allegations of political interference in ... Read More
Western Cape High Court Abrahams NO v Moller and Others Judgment: 27 October 2026 Keywords: Settlement agreement between former life partners granting permanent occupation – Precarium distinguished from contractual right of occupation – Insolvent deceased estate – Concursus creditorum not ... Read More
Land Court (Randburg) Kaapzicht Wine Estate (Pty) Ltd & Others v Solomons Judgment: 22 September 2026 Keywords: Land Court eviction – Occupiers before 4 February 1997 – Fundamental breach of relationship – Termination of right of residence – Absence of suitable ... Read More
Western Cape High Court Curnow and Another v Elias & Others Judgment: 26 October 2026 Keywords: Eviction – Expired fixed-term lease – Purported unilateral renewal by tenant – No enforceable option to renew – Elderly occupier – Prevention of Illegal Eviction ... Read More
North West businessman Suliman Carrim has secured his release from custody after the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court granted him bail of R100 000, finding that the risks identified in the case could be managed through strict conditions. A report in The ... Read More
Former SAPS Major-General Ntsumbedzeni Mulungani Mphego’s urgent Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) bid to overturn a police raid at his home has reportedly been struck off the roll. A report in The Citizen notes that he had wanted the raid to ... Read More
A former Bosasa employee has testified that he omitted allegations about Desmond Nair from a 2017 statement after the company’s late boss, Gavin Watson, allegedly threatened his livelihood and his family’s safety, reports News24. Richard le Roux, who took the ... Read More
In our scramble to meet international requirements preventing financing of terrorism, SA risks making life unnecessarily difficult for NPOs, warns human rights lawyer Alison Tilley. The General Laws (Anti-Money Laundering and Combating Terrorism Financing) Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament, intends ... Read More
The water value chain spans across national, provincial and local levels. Part of the water value chain includes water boards and municipalities, note Dr Henk Boshoff, a commissioner, and Peacemore Mhodi, a research adviser, at the HRC. ‘These two play ... Read More
The former wife of Zimbabwe's Vice-President has been freed from remand after seven years while on trial for his attempted murder, reports BBC News. Marry Mubaiwa was charged in 2019, after her then husband General Constantino Chiwenga accused her ... Read More
Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu, who was charged with treason last year, has started a hunger strike to protest his inability to access his lawyers, his party said. Lissu, who leads the Chadema opposition party and came second in the ... Read More
The DRC’s opposition on Tuesday distanced themselves from ex-President Joseph Kabila, who has taken the helm of a rebellion in the country's east, reports TRT Afrika. The country's main opposition coalition condemned ‘any seizure of power by force’ ... Read More
Three Florida brothers who exploited the wealth and influence of their family’s luxury real estate business to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced to 30 years in prison in New York this week. A report in The ... Read More
Rock veteran Neil Young has filed a $10m lawsuit against a fundraising committee that supports US President Donald Trump, citing ‘unauthorised’ use of his 1989 song Rockin' in the Free World. A BBC News report notes that the Canadian-American star ... Read More
The UK’s Legal Services Board (LSB) has approved the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s (SRA) amended guidance that will allow it to issue unlimited fines in cases of economic crime. A report on the Legalfutures site notes that the SRA had made ... Read More
* A KZN man has been sentenced to life imprisonment for repeatedly raping his daughter, after the victim broke her silence and confided in a teacher who alerted authorities. The NPA has welcomed the life imprisonment sentence handed down by the ... Read More
* Two people have been killed in separate shootings across Cape Town amid suspected taxi-related violence, while commuters were seen fleeing for their lives as gunfire rang out in Delft. The shooting incidents have spilled over into several areas across Cape ... Read More
* A 41-year-old man is expected to appear in court after he was arrested at Tuynhuis, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s official office in Cape Town. The Hawks’ Crimes Against the State Unit launched an investigation after a man was allegedly found inside ... Read More
* Durban’s beaches have not been refused Blue Flag status, according to the eThekwini Municipality. The city has chosen not to apply to include the beaches in the international Blue Flag programme for a sixth consecutive season. The Blue Flag programme ... Read More
* The case against a 23-year-old man accused of killing a police officer at a North West shopping centre has been postponed for a Hindi-speaking interpreter to be appointed. Akilesh Gupta appeared in the Lichtenburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, where he ... Read More
* A taxi driver Kamvelihle Gentleman, who attempted to bribe an Eastern Cape traffic officer when he was pulled over on 10 July last year, has been sentenced to a fine of R10 000 in the Makhanda Magistrate’s Court. The officer ... Read More
* Delft police have opened two cases of attempted murder and a case of discharging a firearm following a shooting between taxi drivers at the Palm Taxi Rank yesterday morning. According to the police, the shooting occurred at about 7am, leaving ... Read More
* Businesses and paying residents could be shouldering the cost of unpaid municipal accounts, prompting ratepayer representatives and economists to call for greater transparency over debt collection, write-offs and enforcement. The debate centres on whether municipalities are collecting what's owed ... Read More
