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Many in the legal profession today continue to benefit from systems of exclusion they did not create, but from which they continue to draw advantage. (Getty Images)
ATTORNEY

Legal Practice Act discriminates against attorneys

Section 25(3) of the Act perpetuates a harmful historical stereotype that reduces attorneys to mere office administrators

  • Sello Ivan Phahle
  • Thabo Mhlanga
12 min read
ASIPHAKAME

No record of ‘Casanova’ fraudster Johan Fouche as a legal practitioner, at least after 2009

Fouche’s current business, Asiphakame, is also not registered as a financial services provider with the Financial Services Conduct Authority

  • Lyse Comins
3 min read
The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have called for members of the judiciary to undergo lifestyle audits.
CONSTITUTION

Constitutional court upholds ban on foreigners practising law in South Africa

The prohibition in the Legal Practice Act did not amount to unfair discrimination because it sought to achieve a legitimate government objective of restricting a profession for…

  • Emsie Ferreira
8 min read
Standing: Mvuso Notyesi welcomed delegates to the fifth Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa Legal Forum conference in 2018, when he was the Law Society of South Africa co-chair.
JUDICIAL SERVICES COMMISSION

I’m just a lawyer going to court, says attorney on ‘enormous power’ allegations

The Mthatha attorney is angered by a tweet alleging he sways the high court and the Judicial Services Commission

  • Ray Hartle
7 min read
Making an appeal: Bruce Chakanyuka, photographed in Soshanguve, is a qualified lawyer, but works as a waiter because he holds Zimbabwean citizenship and has not been granted permanent residence. (James Puttick)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

‘Unintended consequence of undoing apartheid’: Zim lawyers battle for admittance

A group of Zimbabweans challenging their exclusion from the bar say their home is here, and it is populist opportunism to use unemployment figures to keep their their lives in…

  • Emsie Ferreira
10 min read