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While between 3,000 and 5,000 striking miners were marching five kilometers to deliver their demands to Lonmin management, the police, it seems, were quite busy at Small Koppie. As luck would have it,...

  MEDIA RELEASE: ALLPAY CONSOLIDATED INVESTMENT HOLDINGS (PTY) LTD & OTHERS v CEO OF SASSA & OTHERS, CASE NO. 7477/12 28 August 2012  The North Gauteng High...

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=437184 2010 10 01 Courts should regulate media, says legal expert   ONE of South Africa's leading legal practitioners, Wim Trengove, SC, says he is "co...

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...

THERE was something surreal about the Constitutional Court hearing on Tuesday about whether 21-million South Africans should be consigned to a form of subservience under tribal dictatorships that not ...

A CONTROVERSIAL law that seeks to reform land ownership in former homelands came under fire in the Constitutional Court yesterday for entrenching racist land allocation practices prevalent under apart...

Chief Justice Margaret Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court visited South Africa recently to deliver a lecture in honour of the late Bram Fischer. The lecture, held by the LRC on 13 No...

A former AWB member who wants to be pardoned for a politically motivated offence has come under fire for his perceived lack of remorse. Ryan Albutt was convicted and sentenced for his part in an att...

On 13 November 2009 at 5:30 pm for 6:00 pm the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) will present the 2009 Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture titled, The Transfor...

The Constitutional Court has heard victims of politically-motivated crimes have the right to be heard in the interest of national reconciliation. Convicted killer and former AWB member Ryan Albutt a...

Johannesburg - Constitutional Court judges reserved judgement in a case involving an Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) member who wants to be pardoned for a political violence offence. This follows...

She asked to say a prayer before she could relate what happened on that dreadful December 24, 1996 in Zwelithemba in the Western Cape. It is a moving prayer in Xhosa as she communicates with the Man...

THE Constitutional Court has granted Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Jeff Radebe a two-year extension to initiate legislation for the enforcement of judgment debts against the state. ...

'Dealing with very essence of our democracy, rule of law, absent of which we have nothing' DEPUTY Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke said yesterday if state officials did not comply with court orders, S...

The new minister of justice and constitutional development says legislation to fast-track transformation is in the pipeline. But it might take a while to implement Newly appointed Justice and Consti...

FORMER law and order minister Adriaan Vlok is among 121 people recommended for a presidential pardon, according to a civil society coalition that had legally challenged the granting of special pardons...

Apartheid-era police minister Adriaan Vlok and a group of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging killers were among those who came close to receiving a presidential pardon through a back-door process that would...

Last week's ruling on the presidential pardons process could have far-reaching implications and, some say, affect the president's power to grant pardons in future. In early 2008, former president Th...