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Court Orders Gauteng Department of Health to Provide Cancer Treatment to Patients Awaiting Care
and Slade van Rooyen - Candidate Attorney and Farah Yassin - Candidate Attorney On 27 March 2025, the Gauteng Local [...]
Allegations of Ethnic Discrimination Require Evidence: the Sagan Principle
and Isabella Keeves - Candidate Attorney In 1979 science communicator and physicist Carl Sagan wrote in his book Broca's Brain [...]
The Clock Is Ticking: Labour Disputes and the Perils of Miscalculating Timeframes
The recent Labour Court decision in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality v SAMWU obo Bukula and Others (PR174/2023) provides a sobering [...]
Automatic Termination Clauses Do Not Trump the LRA: The Biyana Case
and Isabella Keeves – Candidate Attorney The CCMA’s recent decision in Biyana v National Consumer Commission (2025) 34 CCMA 7.17.2 [...]
Proposed R100 Billion Transformation Fund Will Have Significant Implications For Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“Bbbee”) Regulation In South Africa
On 19 March 2025, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition ("DTIC") issued a draft Transformation Fund Concept Document for [...]
Sorry Not Sorry
and Mike Searle, Candidate Attorney In the recent Labour Court decision of Standard Bank Insurance Brokers (Pty) Ltd v Dlamini [...]
