Three of SA’s largest law firms will ask the Gauteng High Court next week to set aside the legal sector’s black economic empowerment (BEE) code, arguing that it is unlawful, impractical and risks undermining transformation rather than advancing it, reports ... Read More

ActionSA yesterday rejected claims that it is using anti-migrant sentiment to gain political support, as it joined a mass protest led by controversial anti-migrant group March and March, in Johannesburg.They are protesting to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature over alleged ... Read More

It was a moment of barking success for SA’s justice system when a therapy dog made history by stepping into the Western Cape High Court yesterday to support a young witness during criminal court proceedings. Toffee Beanz is a trained ... Read More

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has, by notice in the Government Gazette, published changes to the Mutual Banks Act. The changes relate, in the main, to administrative responsibilities of mutual banks or those regulated by the authority to provide financial, risk-based ... Read More

SCA MV ‘Tai Harmony’ and Another v Sure Success Steamship SA and Another Judgment: 28 April 2026 Keywords: Maritime law – Topping-up of security – Associated ship arrest – Whether High Court correctly ordered increase in security to cover unpaid ... Read More

SCA Van der Vyver Transport (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Labour Judgment: 24 April 2026 Keywords: Administrative law – Review application – No explanation provided for 20-month delay – Prospects of success insufficient to compensate for absence of explanation – ... Read More

Western Cape High Court Stellenbosch District Municipality v Makhubela Judgment: April 2026 Keywords: Mandament van spolie requirements – Customary initiation school – Whether principal of initiation school in possession of municipal property – Cultural rights – Scope of spoliatory relief ... Read More

The state intends to conduct further consultations with women who were allegedly raped and assaulted by former Gqeberha endocrinologist Dr Gregory Hough, reports HeraldLIVE. This was disclosed by Senior State Advocate Linda le Roux during Hough’s brief appearance in the ... Read More

Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, son of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has been fined R600 000 and ordered to be deported following a shooting incident at a Hyde Park home in Johannesburg. His cousin, Tobias Matondze, received a prison sentence in ... Read More

A Political Killings Task Team (PKTT) member and a police spokesperson were among five people sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for a R120 000 conspiracy to derail a political murder investigation, reports News24. In a scathing indictment of institutional rot ... Read More

Much of what governments and organisations want to suppress is kept secret not to avert public harm, but to spare themselves embarrassment. That is particularly true of the political aristocracy suckling at the teats of the BEE sow, argues columnist ... Read More

The sentencing of Julius Malema for firearm-related offences should not be treated primarily as a political moment but a legal one. Malema was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in connection with a 2018 firearm discharge incident, and was granted leave ... Read More

The International Criminal Court issued a landmark reparations order on Tuesday for victims of religious persecution perpetrated by an al-Qaeda-linked leader, reports My Joy Online. Judges mandated that $8.4m be paid to victims of Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz ... Read More

Senegal’s National Assembly voted on Tuesday to amend the country’s electoral code, reports africanews. The move would allow Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko to stand in next year’s presidential election. Introduced by Sonko’s Pastef party, the Bill passed easily with 128 ... Read More

A network linked to the leadership of a militia accused of genocide has amassed a vast property portfolio in Dubai as part of a sprawling ’paramilitary-industrial complex’ across Africa and the Middle East, an investigation has revealed. According to The Guardian, family ... Read More

Meta has been found to be in breach of EU law for failing to prevent children under 13 from using its Facebook and Instagram platforms. A report in The Guardian notes that issuing the preliminary findings of a nearly two-year ... Read More

France has launched a probe into the reappearance of a website that enabled Dominique Pelicot to recruit dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife, Gisèle, prosecutors said this week. A report in The Guardian notes that authorities say ... Read More

The US Supreme Court has reinstated Texas’ 2025 congressional map, overturning a lower court ruling that found it was likely an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The court’s brief, unsigned order relied on its earlier decision in Abbott v League of United ... Read More

* The Eastern Cape Department of Health has apologised for viral images of mothers filmed carrying buckets of water at Makhanda’s Settlers Hospital after an outage at the facility where their children are admitted. The images went viral on social media ... Read More

* Highlighting their plight of working for nine years without salary increases, disgruntled SA Post Office (Sapo) workers took to the street in Pretoria yesterday. Joined by unions affiliated to the SA Federation of Trade Unions and Cosatu, workers marched from ... Read More

* Specialised investigators and forensic experts say the owners of Airbnbs and guesthouses are increasingly seeking their assistance in a bid to nab thieves, as the crime grows across Cape Town and the country. Forensic expert, Ben Lombard of LieTech Polygraph ... Read More