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Four human rights organisations have expressed concern over proposals by the Department of Home Affairs to discontinue issuing birth certificates to children born of foreign parents. The department ...

Legalbrief - a daily alert of important legal newsAfrica must establish new anti-corruption court Publish date: 12 May 2025 Issue Number: 1125 Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa Category: Justice ...

Botswana Diamonds on Friday said South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources & Energy had approved the environmental authorisation for one of its two mining permit applications tied to the Thorny ...

When the High Court in eSwatini found prominent South African investment analyst Allan Gray’s Sandy McGregor unfit for the office of executor of his mother-in-law’s considerable estate, implementation ...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has exposed Angola, Cameroon, Eritrea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tunisia in Africa as leading jailers of journalists in 2024. Malawi24 reports that the CPJ ...

Zambia and Zimbabwe have signed two historical Memoranda of Understanding, according to New Zimbabwe. The MoU on military co-operation will see the Zambia and Zimbabwe defence forces collaborate in ...

A suggestion that the feasibility of handing over some Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife reserves to the SA National Parks Board be investigated has triggered heated debate. A report in The Mercury notes that ...

The Constitutional Court has cautioned against the abuse of the Biowatc h principle, which it says does not mean risk-free constitutional litigation, notes Legalbrief. It made the comment yesterday ...

Drug cartels based in Mexico are accused of fuelling the fentanyl overdose crisis in the US. Now the names of notorious cartels are starting to crop up in South African cases. Evidence suggests that ...

Two of the seven misconduct charges Advocate Dali Mpofu SC faces in a Legal Practice Council (LPC) disciplinary inquiry are linked to his alleged attempts to impugn Professor Thuli Madonsela's ...

The General Council of the Bar (GCB) and the Pan African Bar Association (Pabasa) will intervene in a court case to defend the Legal Sector Code – a B-BBEE code dubbed a transformation game-changer ...