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Men hold placards offering temporary employment services while waiting for potential customers in Glenvista, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 March 2025. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/File Photo

SA proposes new way for firms to comply with Black empowerment policyNellie Peyton

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Employers warned: Labour inspectors to enforce retirement fund payment lawsDeirdre Phillips and Chloë Loubser

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Employment protection for performers: Call for public comment

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New SCA judgment on accident liability: A lesson for tour operatorsMtho Maphumulo

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Prior art: European ruling G1/23 and the impact on patent landscapes in SAAmy Anderson and Dirk Hanekom

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State is blocking access to Sassa grants, argue activists

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SIU returns R1.7bn to the NSFAS purse

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The Department of Social Development, South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and National Treasury want a ruling that declared several regulations governing the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant unconstitutional overturned. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

SRD grant increase is “simply unaffordable” says Treasury

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From policy to practice: why SA’s SIM card regulations fall short

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Farhad Khan 26 Jan 2026

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New deputy public protector appointed

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Adv Svetlana Vasileva, Afsa Secretary General

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A dedicated Road Accident Fund tribunal would relieve the pressure on the courts which are clogged with RAF claims, the assistant State Attorney in Johannesburg says. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

State Attorney calls for a new Road Accident Fund tribunal

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Call for scholar transport drivers to acquire qualifications

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Why "it won't work" is no excuse: High Court rules on mandatory mediation stance

Roberto Oktober and Peter Michaels 20 Jan 2026

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Debate stirs as South African courts consider raising disputed tax assessments

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Chloë Loubser, Knowledge and Learning Lawyer: Employment and Data Protection, Bowmans

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Impower encourages SA to comment on Eskom's tariff adjustment

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Closing date for submissions on White Paper on Citizenship extended

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Why the UK Supreme Court ruling on post-sale confusion matters to global brands

Merlene Engelbrecht 16 Jan 2026

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How Agoa renewal impacts the SA-US economic relationship

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Zero-tolerance: Plans to scrap laws allowing drinking and driving

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Source: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp. Five District Six families, who withstood apartheid’s forced removals, have been ordered to vacate these Victorian cottages.

District Six families ordered to vacate Searle Street cottages

Tania Broughton 15 Jan 2026

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Tunisian journalist Chatha Belhaj Mubarak freed after sentence cut

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An employee inspects bottles of beer on a conveyor belt along a production line at the East African Breweries' microbrewery as the company released its half-year results in Ruaraka, Nairobi Kenya, 26 January 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi/File Photo/File Photo

Kenyan court postpones case seeking to halt Diageo's $2.3bn sale of EABL

Duncan Miriri and Emma Rumney 9 Jan 2026

Beer bottles pass through a conveyor belt along a production line at the East African Breweries' microbrewery as the company released its half-year results in Ruaraka, Nairobi, Kenya, 26 January 2024. Reuters/Monicah Mwangi//File Photo

Kenyan beer firm asks court to block Diageo's $2.3bn EABL sale to Asahi

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Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu speaks in Brasilia, Brazil, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo.

Nigeria to implement new tax laws from January despite calls for delay, Tinubu says

Camillus Eboh 31 Dec 2025

Apple faces new lawsuit over Congo conflict minerals

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and David Lewis 27 Nov 2025

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