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The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal directly to it made by a coloured woman who was overlooked for a top job in favour of a white man. It…
With the African National Congress assured of a large majority in the Free State, the main election battle will be between the opposition parties for the remaining seats in the…
Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone has mixed feelings about retiring from the court on Thursday. ”I have mixed feelings, but I love a new challenge,” he said after a…
Fingerprints, DNA and behavioural characteristics are unique and difficult to forge, but using them to identify an individual in the modern world is legally problematic.
The third South African to reach the summit of Mt Everest — Sean Wisedale — isn’t too sure about this mountain climbing thing. ”I’m still trying to develop a love for climbing…
Lesbian judge Anne-Marie de Vos said she was ”ecstatic” after the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that gays and lesbians could jointly adopt children.
A ”totally overwhelmed” Philip de Bruin, senior assistant editor of the Beeld, received the Webber Wentzel Bowens Legal Journalist of the Year award for the second year running…
Hunting a rare animal has all sorts of ethical complications, but now hunters can do it and know they are helping conservation.
When a neurosurgery student was shot in the back in an attempted hijacking last year, it was not apparent that his being rendered paraplegic would benefit others.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide…
