PARLIAMENT - The geographic boundaries of the Black Authorities Act (BAA), while having been expunged from the statute books, remain firmly in place through the complex myriad of post-apartheid legisl...

All legislation relating to traditional authorities must be scrapped, the National Assembly's rural development and land reform committee has heard. In a presentation to the committee -- currently ...

Submissions to Parliament have mostly requested that the Black Authorities Act be repealed More than 40 women and men from some of the remotest rural enclaves of the country trekked to Parliament th...

On Tuesday 11th May 2010, the Constitutional Court declared the Communal Land Right Act (CLaRA) unconstitutional. Represented by Legal Resources Centre and the Webber Wentzel Pro Bono Unit, the four...

The government is preparing to overhaul land reform legislation, with the controversial Expropriation Bill coming off the shelf and the agriculture department looking at legislating targets for BEE ow...

The department of social development has tabled an amendment to the Social Assistance Act that civil society organisations believe may worsen the department's enormous backlog in responding to grant a...

IN A landmark ruling on Friday, the North Gauteng High Court declared as unconstitutional key provisions of a law that seeks to privatise communal land. If the Constitutional Court confirms the d...

Pretoria High Court declared sections of the Communal Land Rights Act unconstitutional. In a ruling with implications for millions of people in rural areas, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled sec...

CAPE TOWN - In a ruling with implications for millions of people in rural areas, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled sections of a key land rights' law unconstitutional. The decision was handed do...

Cape Town - Four rural communities on Friday celebrated victory in their High Court challenge to laws governing customary land rights. The court ruled that 14 sections of the Communal Land Rights Ac...

A CONTROVERSIAL bill set to give traditional leaders new powers as officers of the court - a move fiercely opposed by civil society and gender activists - is to resume its journey through Parliament t...

Traditional courts are a standard feature of the ordinary, rural South African's life. Compared with state courts, they are informal, inexpensive and readily accessible - for many they are regular por...

All the wives in a polygynous marriage will be able to inherit ALL the widows of a polygynous Muslim marriage - entered into under Muslim personal law - will be entitled to claim from the estate of ...

On July 15, 2009 the Constitutional Court handed down a judgment in favour of Muslim women in polygynous marriages and affirmed their right to inherit in the event that their husbands die without leav...

LAW The Constitutional Court will rule on an application that revolves around the recognition in law of all partners in a Muslim marriage when it sits in Johannesburg tomorrow. The applicant in the ca...

For years outdoor sex workers in Cape Town have been arrested frequently for ‘loitering’ and ‘loitering with the intent to commit prostitution’ but seldom prosecuted. In the pe...

1. 2009 04 24 SWEAT ‘Cape court strikes a blow for city`s sex workers' Business Day 2. 2009 04 22 'Court rules against police', Cape Times 3. 2009 04 21 ‘Outcry as cops halt sex busts' Sowetan...

An application for an interdict was brought by the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) against the Minister of Safety and Security and others. It was heard on the 5th of March 2009 in ...

Cape Town - Cape Town prostitutes will take on the police in the Cape High Court this week when they seek an interdict to stop what they claim are unlawful arrests. The application, to be heard on ...

An application for an interdict was brought by the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) against The Minister of Safety and Security and others. It will be heard on the 5th of March 2009...