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17 Dec 2024

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To buy a home before or after lobola negotiations: How customary marriage affects homeownership

27 Nov 2024

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Are employers' responsibilities to act against GBV limited to the workplace?

Keshni Naicker, Amandla Makhongwana, and Angel Phakathi 25 Nov 2024

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Home Affairs issues first-ever certificates recognising Muslim marriages

28 Oct 2024

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Declaring insolvency - legitimate or elaborate ruse to avoid paying child support?

Kaamilah Paulse 1 Oct 2024

Choose your executor wisely and avoid these Will pitfalls

Choose your executor wisely and avoid these Will pitfalls

18 Sep 2024

Why National Wills Week is more important than you realise

Why National Wills Week is more important than you realise

Capital Legacy 13 Sep 2024

Kaamilah Paulse, director and family law specialist at Herold Gie Attorneys

#WomensMonth: Empathy and advocacy - Kaamilah Paulse's recipe for women's success in law

Shan Radcliffe 29 Aug 2024

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Companies can do much more to empower women

Nita Morgan 29 Aug 2024

Never (really) too young to have a will

Never (really) too young to have a will

Capital Legacy 25 Jun 2024

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GBV, NPA Bills signed into law

27 May 2024

Fixing lengthy delays on deceased estates

Fixing lengthy delays on deceased estates

Capital Legacy 27 May 2024

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Divorce Amendment Bill signed into law; recognises Muslim marriages

9 May 2024

Don’t leave chaos in your wake

Don’t leave chaos in your wake

Grant Fietze, Capital Legacy 16 Apr 2024

A case before the Constitutional Court could introduce a new era of customary law. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Limpopo royal family feud could change customary law

Anton van Zyl 22 Feb 2024

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Acting without Letters of Curatorship? Not so fast

Loraine Strydom and Alisa Malindi 13 Feb 2024

About 700,000 IDs have been blocked by the Department of Home Affairs without due process. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Home Affairs may no longer block your ID on a whim, court rules

Tania Broughton 17 Jan 2024

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Sassa clarifies report on 74,000 deceased ghost accounts

12 Jan 2024

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Estate curatorship: Is this a demeaning western construct?

Kaamilah Paulse and Loraine Strydom 4 Jan 2024

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Govt pilots online platform for protection orders

10 Aug 2023

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Have your say on Draft Marriage Bill

12 Jul 2023

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2023 Children's Rights Moot Court Competition winners

3 Jul 2023

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Cabinet approves publication of Draft Marriage Bill

23 Jun 2023

A High Court judge has rejected a man’s attempt to get back support he paid for a child who turned out not to be his. Photo: Brian Turner via (CC BY 2.0)

No legal duty to disclose an extra-marital affair, says judge

Tania Broughton 21 Jun 2023

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Postnuptial agreements - possible, but not simple

Loryn Liberty 19 Jun 2023

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Married in community of property: What you need to know about contracts and consent

Lethabo Mashishi 7 Jun 2023

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Namibia's top court recognises same-sex marriages formed elsewhere

Nyasha Nyaungwa and Anait Miridzhanian 17 May 2023

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The benefits of registering a customary marriage

Janine Julies 5 May 2023

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What the new domestic violence laws mean for GBV prevention

Dakalo Singo 20 Apr 2023

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