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Beyond Heritage Day: African Languages Must Carry Our Rights
Heritage Month should go beyond cultural celebration to address institutional language barriers that prevent citizens from fully understanding and accessing their constitutional…
State continues grilling Kekana as Matlala trial resumes
The State is challenging the credibility of Musa Kekana during cross-examination in the Johannesburg High Court as part of the trial-within-a-trial in the Vusimuzi 'Cat' Matlala…
Unpacking Mkhwanazi's many bail applications
Legal experts explain how South African courts evaluate bail when an accused faces multiple charges, following suspended EMPD deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi's latest court…
Neo Innocent Sewela
Neo Innocent Sewela, 30, knows that confidence is earned one opportunity at a time. As a director in the labour and employment practice at Werksmans Attorneys, one of South…
Dr Sithelo Magagula
Dr Sithelo Magagula is proving that scholarship and legal practice need not exist in separate worlds. A director at Finger Attorneys, he works at the intersection of public…
Sbonelo Thandolwenkosi Nkomo
For Sbonelo Thandolwenkosi Nkomo, 34, the law begins where the map often ends. Raised in a remote farming community in KwaZulu-Natal, he became the first person there to attend…
Dr Bryony Fox
Dr Bryony Fox, 30, has built hers by asking difficult questions and embracing the uncertainty that comes with answering them. Recently appointed as a Constitutional Court law…
Rethabile Segone
Rethabile Segone, 28, is asking what it should become. As a law researcher at the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Banking Law and an LLD candidate, he is exploring one of…
Lehlohonolo S January
At 28, Lehlohonolo S. January works where the law finds its final voice. As a law researcher at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, he operates behind the scenes of some…
Impeachment on contested ground
The Western Cape High Court's decision to grant President Cyril Ramaphosa an interim interdict has ignited a polarising public debate, with some portraying it as an obstacle to…
Ramaphosa clears Gauteng DPP Andrew Chauke after inquiry rejects misconduct allegations
President Cyril Ramaphosa has reinstated Gauteng South Director of Public Prosecutions Andrew Chauke, clearing him to return to office after a year-long suspension. An…
When Mthombeni, the AI spouse, ‘kills’: Law and the limits of human–robot intimacy
Explore the complex legal and ethical dilemmas when an AI-driven social robot causes harm, as seen through a thought experiment where an AI spouse 'kills'. South African criminal…
No, the SADC chair is not a ‘European citizen’ – the law is clear
President Andry Rajoelina remains Malagasy, and he assumed the Southern African Development Community chair legitimately, as elected by his peers
Discriminatory rape law to be challenged in the Constitutional Court
By centring consent in the definition of rape, the law makes the survivor’s state of mind the battleground instead of focusing on the perpetrator’s actions, including their use…
Uganda’s parliament ignores rule of law
In defiance of a supreme court ruling, Uganda’s parliament under the National Resistance Movement’s President Yoweri Museveni has passed into law that civilians can be tried in…