The impact of mining operations on rural communities is a contentious issue in South Africa. There is also concern about the manner in which communities are consulted about mining on their land...
Thomson Reuters and Juta & Co are proud to announce a partnership in Africa, that will see legal professionals being offered market-leading research technology...
Jackie Rhodes & Kamal Patel, Juta and Company 13 Apr 2021
Eskom's board will probe allegations of racism made in the public domain against the power utility's group chief executive (GCE), Andre de Ruyter...
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) has congratulated Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza's on his appointment as a member of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights...
US President Joe Biden's administration will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council, three years after former...
South Africa's Constitutional Court declares certain provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications Act, unconstitutional...
Rui Lopes and Kirsty Gibson 5 Feb 2021
When confronted with allegations of misconduct, such as fraud and/or corruption, does an employer have the right to compel an employee to provide self-incriminating evidence, or evidence that may incriminate other employees...?
Dr. Johannes Jacobus van der Walt 2 Feb 2021
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, global efforts have successfully developed both expedited means of testing for the virus and, more recently, vaccines...
Jason Whyte 15 Jan 2021
It was touted locally as one of the biggest campaigns of the decade when, in 2016, Kenyan environmentalist Phyllis Omido took up the fight against lead poisoning by a lead-acid batteries recycling smelter...
Christabel Ligami 31 Dec 2020
In her doctoral thesis, Dr Vivian John-Langba identified national human rights institutions as one of the institutions through which effective promotion and protection of refugee rights can occur...
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Matter to be reheard by three judges of the Western Cape High Court...
James Stent 4 Dec 2020
Home Affairs has been interdicted from implementing certain provisions of the Refugees Act and new Regulations (both implemented on 1 January 2020), which sought to return asylum seekers back to their home country where they could face detention without trial, rape, torture, or death, merely because he or she was a month late in renewing a visa...
Yesterday, judgment was handed down in the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa which declared section 1(xix)(v) of the Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993 unconstitutional to the extent that it excludes domestic workers employed in private households from the definition of "employee", thereby preventing them from accessing workers' compensation.
