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Corporate & Commercial Law

Court blocks business rescue abuse - delay tactics will not be tolerated

Julian Jones, Caellyn Eedes & Liso Potwana 3 days

Source: © 123rf South Africans will not be denied their constitutional right to access to news and information after the Gauteng High Court suspended the analogue TV switch-off date of 31 March 2025

Media Freedom

Court suspends analogue switch-off date, ruling calls set date "irrational"

Danette Breitenbach 3 days

Western Cape’s Grade R, 1 and 8 admissions open: Full application details

Primary & Secondary Education

Western Cape’s Grade R, 1 and 8 admissions open: Full application details

6 Mar 2025

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Land & Property Law

High Court ruling allows body corporate to disconnect power of resident in arrears

Charlise Finch and Pierre Le Roux 4 Mar 2025

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Human Rights Law

Public release of the NRSO: Educators to get first look

Shan Radcliffe 27 Feb 2025

All infrastructure work on the R300m Botmaskop Fynbos Estate on the Helshoogte Pass between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek has already been completed. Photo from an appendix in the respondent’s court papers.

Property

Parties hold their breath in battle over R300m Stellenbosch mountain estate

John Yeld 26 Feb 2025

Workers at a household goods wholesaler in Johannesburg must be paid the minimum wage, not according to targets reached, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration has ruled. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Women workers win major victory on minimum wage

Tania Broughton 26 Feb 2025

High Court clears path for Tongaat Hulett’s business rescue

Agriculture

High Court clears path for Tongaat Hulett’s business rescue

20 Feb 2025

Stilfontein: ‘It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation’

Mining

Stilfontein: ‘It was not an illness that killed them. It was starvation’

Lindsey Schutters 6 Jan 2025

Blind and visually impaired people have the right to convert protected works to accessible formats without having to obtain permission, the Constitutional Court has ruled. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

IP Law

Blind people can access copyrighted works, rules Concourt - again

Tania Broughton 17 Dec 2024

African Penguins (photographed above at the Boulders penguin colony) are critically endangered. Photo: John Yeld/GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Legal delays threaten survival of African Penguins, say conservation groups

John Yeld 12 Dec 2024

Deadline looms for spaza shop registration

Informal Retailing

Deadline looms for spaza shop registration

11 Dec 2024

Guide to register spaza shops

Regulatory

Guide to register spaza shops

26 Nov 2024

The Supreme Court of Appeal has slammed former judge president John Hlophe for meddling in a straightforward eviction case. Photo: Ben Bezuidenhout via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Land & Property Law

John Hlophe’s meddling in eviction matter slammed by appeal court

Tania Broughton 13 Nov 2024

Fishers in Port Nolloth are opposing TotalEnergies’ bid to explore for gas and oil off the West Coast. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Court bid to block TotalEnergies gas project off West Coast

7 Nov 2024

Request for quotations: Appointment of a service provider for the provision of recruitment services

Talent Acquisition

Request for quotations: Appointment of a service provider for the provision of recruitment services

Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 4 Nov 2024

The Constitutional Court will hear two applications relating to copyright in South Africa that affect the rights of blind people. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Legislation

ConCourt showdown on copyright bill

Tania Broughton 23 Oct 2024

African Penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Talks on penguin litigation fail to break deadlock

John Yeld 22 Oct 2024

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Labour Law

Can businesses recover stolen money from ex-employee pension funds?

Mtho Maphumulo 2 Oct 2024

African Penguins at Boulders Beach in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Former environment minister Creecy under fire from penguin conservation groups

John Yeld 1 Oct 2024

Socal grant applicants queue at the Eerste River Sassa office. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Welfare

Rules for R370-a-month social grant to be challenged in court in October

Marecia Damons 3 Sep 2024

Outside the Western Cape High Court, Ndifuna Ukwazi attorney Jonty Cogger speaks to applicants urgently seeking an interdict preventing PRASA from evicting them from land they have occupied for years. Photo: Sandiso Phaliso / GroundUp

Land & Property Law

Court criticises Prasa for illegal evictions

Sandiso Phaliso and Tori Newby 30 Aug 2024

Activists picket outside the High Court in Gqeberha in 2022 against seismic surveys off the Wild Coast. Archive photo: Joseph Chirume / GroundUp

Environmental Law

Wild Coast: Constitutional Court says no to Shell appeal bid

Tania Broughton 28 Aug 2024

WCED opens application window for Grade R and school transfers for 2025

Primary & Secondary Education

WCED opens application window for Grade R and school transfers for 2025

1 Aug 2024

Final oral arguments are being heard in the disciplinary tribunal of Judge Nana Makhubele. Archive photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Tribunal must decide who is telling the truth - Mlambo or Makhubele

Tania Broughton 24 Jul 2024

Local community members and supporters of Sustaining the Wild Coast and Greenpeace celebrated a court victory outside the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda in September 2022. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki / GroundUp

Environment & Natural Resources

Court asked to stop Shell’s seismic tests once and for all

Tania Broughton 2 Jul 2024

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Corporate & Commercial Law

Are virtually commissioned affidavits valid?

Graeme Palmer 26 Jun 2024

Members of non-profit organisations funded by the Gauteng Department of Social Development protested last week because of delays in funding allocations and subsidy payments. Photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Court orders Gauteng government to pay non-profit organisations

Masego Mafata 24 May 2024

Mabola Protected Area in the Mpumalanga grasslands is under threat of coal mining. Archive photo: supplied

Environment & Natural Resources

Proposed coal mine in Mpumalanga grasslands back in court

John Yeld 2 May 2024

Nonhlanhla Mahlaule, data capturer at the BEE Chamber

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#30YearsOfFreedom: Milestone on SA's road to transformation and economic empowerment

26 Apr 2024

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Labour Law & Unions

Why 'unlawful dismissal' doesn't mean 'automatic reinstatement'

Chloë Loubser and Caity Barbour 18 Apr 2024

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Primary & Secondary Education

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Lucas Nowicki 18 Apr 2024

The Alexkor coffer-dam wall between two dams at high tide. Photos from a Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment report titled: “Enforcement: In Loco Inspection Report – The salt/tidal flats of the Orange River Mouth Ramsar site”, published 28 January 2020.

Environment & Natural Resources

Alexkor vs Creecy in environment court battle

John Yeld 12 Apr 2024

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Primary & Secondary Education

Western Cape online learner application deadline looms

5 Apr 2024

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Legislation

Judicial Matters Amendment Act signed into law

4 Apr 2024

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Criminal Law

Former Steinhoff director appears in court for fraud, racketeering

26 Mar 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photos: Dan Callister

Environment & Natural Resources

Minister’s plan could wipe out African penguins, say scientists

John Yeld 25 Mar 2024

WCED opens Grade 1 and 8 admissions for 2025

Primary & Secondary Education

WCED opens Grade 1 and 8 admissions for 2025

11 Mar 2024

Public Health

Anti-vaxxers thrashed in court

Tania Broughton 11 Mar 2024

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has turned to the Constitutional Court in his bid to appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment that found the process he used to end the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme was neither fair nor lawful. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Home Affairs minister takes Zimbabwean permit battle to the Constitutional Court

Tania Broughton 6 Mar 2024

Paediatrics

South Africa leads the continent in offering more paternal leave to fathers. How to make sure both parents benefit

Wessel Van Den Berg 27 Dec 2023

City of Cape Town opens applications to its 2024 supplier programme

SMEs

City of Cape Town opens applications to its 2024 supplier programme

7 Dec 2023

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Labour Law

Nxesi denies allegations of corruption in R5bn UIF jobs deal

23 Nov 2023

Law of Succession

Lawyers fed-up with shambles in Master's Offices

Ella Morrison 18 Oct 2023

Source: © 123rf A medical certificate produced by an employee to justify a period of absence constitutes hearsay evidence, which employers are entitled to challenge

Labour Law & Unions

Instances when an employer can query the validity of the medical certificate

Dumisani Ndiweni & Kgololego Pooe 16 Oct 2023

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Employment Equity

B-BBEE Commission: How the complaints and investigations procedure works

Safiyya Patel and Loatile Baiphaphele 12 Oct 2023

Applications open for bursaries in environmental field

Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

Applications open for bursaries in environmental field

22 Sep 2023

The Pretoria High Court will hear a matter this week in which Lawyers For Human Rights is representing more than 100 people who have fallen victim to Home Affairs’s “arbitrary” ID blocking practice. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks | GroundUp

Human Rights Law

Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs

Tania Broughton 18 Sep 2023

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Corporate & Commercial Law

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Tania Broughton 12 Sep 2023

Damage to the West Coast north of the Olifants River estuary caused by previous diamond mining operations (before Trans Hex). Photo: John Yeld | GroundUp

Environmental Law

Court challenge to 30-year extension of West Coast diamond mining rights

John Yeld 28 Aug 2023