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Local community members and supporters of Sustaining the Wild Coast and Greenpeace celebrated a court victory outside the Eastern Cape High Court in Makhanda in September 2022. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki / GroundUp

ESG & Sustainability

Court asked to stop Shell’s seismic tests once and for all

Tania Broughton 2 Jul 2024

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Legal

Are virtually commissioned affidavits valid?

Graeme Palmer 26 Jun 2024

Members of non-profit organisations funded by the Gauteng Department of Social Development protested last week because of delays in funding allocations and subsidy payments. Photo: Masego Mafata / GroundUp

ESG & Sustainability

Court orders Gauteng government to pay non-profit organisations

Masego Mafata 24 May 2024

Mabola Protected Area in the Mpumalanga grasslands is under threat of coal mining. Archive photo: supplied

ESG & Sustainability

Proposed coal mine in Mpumalanga grasslands back in court

John Yeld 2 May 2024

Nonhlanhla Mahlaule, data capturer at the BEE Chamber

ESG & Sustainability

#30YearsOfFreedom: Milestone on SA's road to transformation and economic empowerment

26 Apr 2024

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HR & Management

Why 'unlawful dismissal' doesn't mean 'automatic reinstatement'

Chloë Loubser and Caity Barbour 18 Apr 2024

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Education

Thousands of school children stuck without transport months into school year

Lucas Nowicki 18 Apr 2024

The Alexkor coffer-dam wall between two dams at high tide. Photos from a Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment report titled: “Enforcement: In Loco Inspection Report – The salt/tidal flats of the Orange River Mouth Ramsar site”, published 28 January 2020.

ESG & Sustainability

Alexkor vs Creecy in environment court battle

John Yeld 12 Apr 2024

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Education

Western Cape online learner application deadline looms

5 Apr 2024

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Legal

Judicial Matters Amendment Act signed into law

4 Apr 2024

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Legal

Former Steinhoff director appears in court for fraud, racketeering

26 Mar 2024

African penguins, photographed here in Simon’s Town, could be extinct as soon as 2035, according to BirdLife South Africa and Sanccob (Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds). Photos: Dan Callister

ESG & Sustainability

Minister’s plan could wipe out African penguins, say scientists

John Yeld 25 Mar 2024

WCED opens Grade 1 and 8 admissions for 2025

Education

WCED opens Grade 1 and 8 admissions for 2025

11 Mar 2024

Healthcare

Anti-vaxxers thrashed in court

Tania Broughton 11 Mar 2024

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi has turned to the Constitutional Court in his bid to appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment that found the process he used to end the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit programme was neither fair nor lawful. Archive photo: Tariro Washinyira / GroundUp

Legal

Home Affairs minister takes Zimbabwean permit battle to the Constitutional Court

Tania Broughton 6 Mar 2024

Healthcare

South Africa leads the continent in offering more paternal leave to fathers. How to make sure both parents benefit

Wessel Van Den Berg 27 Dec 2023

City of Cape Town opens applications to its 2024 supplier programme

Entrepreneurship

City of Cape Town opens applications to its 2024 supplier programme

7 Dec 2023

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Legal

Nxesi denies allegations of corruption in R5bn UIF jobs deal

23 Nov 2023

Legal

Lawyers fed-up with shambles in Master's Offices

Ella Morrison 18 Oct 2023

Source: © 123rf A medical certificate produced by an employee to justify a period of absence constitutes hearsay evidence, which employers are entitled to challenge

HR & Management

Instances when an employer can query the validity of the medical certificate

Dumisani Ndiweni & Kgololego Pooe 16 Oct 2023

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HR & Management

B-BBEE Commission: How the complaints and investigations procedure works

Safiyya Patel and Loatile Baiphaphele 12 Oct 2023

Applications open for bursaries in environmental field

Education

Applications open for bursaries in environmental field

22 Sep 2023

The Pretoria High Court will hear a matter this week in which Lawyers For Human Rights is representing more than 100 people who have fallen victim to Home Affairs’s “arbitrary” ID blocking practice. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks | GroundUp

Legal

Home Affairs taken to court over blocked IDs

Tania Broughton 18 Sep 2023

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Legal

Doctor fails to block SIU from probing his Lottery connection

Tania Broughton 12 Sep 2023

Damage to the West Coast north of the Olifants River estuary caused by previous diamond mining operations (before Trans Hex). Photo: John Yeld | GroundUp

Legal

Court challenge to 30-year extension of West Coast diamond mining rights

John Yeld 28 Aug 2023

The Prasa property in Newlands, Cape Town, which axed board chairperson Leonard Ramatlakane rented for three months, had not been rented out by the rail agency for eight years, according to Ramatlakane’s affidavit before the High Court. Photo: Steve Kretzmann | GroundUp

HR & Management

Axed Prasa board chair goes to court to get his job back

Steve Kretzmann 23 Aug 2023

Court clamps down on the abuse of business rescue proceedings to avoid winding-up proceedings

Legal

Court clamps down on the abuse of business rescue proceedings to avoid winding-up proceedings

Megan Baker, Thys Scheepers & Adelin Dalais, Issued by Cox Yeats 26 Jul 2023

Some of the workers, who were dismissed from the Frimax chip factory in Verulam, Durban, for participating in an unprotected strike last month, wait outside the CCMA. Photo: Tsoanelo Sefoloko / GroundUp

HR & Management

Chip factory workers will challenge dismissal in Labour Court

Tsoanelo Sefoloko 17 Jul 2023

Source: Reuters.

Healthcare

Grieving Gambian families take govt to court over mishandling of cough syrup

Edward McAllister 14 Jul 2023

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Legal

Titanic submarine incident raises questions on presumption of death; insurance policies

Mtho Maphumulo 23 Jun 2023

The Johannesburg Labour Court has deemed two cases brought by lawyers to be “hopeless in law and facts”. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Legal

Lawyers reprimanded for bringing "hopeless cases" to court

Tania Broughton 12 Jun 2023

Image: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responds to National Assembly members' questions in parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, 3 November 2022. Reuters/Esa Alexander/File Photo

Legal

President Ramaphosa drops legal challenge against Section 89 report

22 May 2023

Invitation to submit applications to participate in the NNG Enterprise & Supplier Development Programme

ICT

Invitation to submit applications to participate in the NNG Enterprise & Supplier Development Programme

Issued by Newzroom Afrika 28 Apr 2023

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Legal

Public display of old SA flag is hate speech, rules SCA

Tania Broughton 25 Apr 2023

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Legal

Upkeep of patents: Renewals, amendments and enforcement

Patrick O'Brien and Jonathan Whittaker 29 Mar 2023

CoCT calls on small business owners to take part in supplier programme

Entrepreneurship

CoCT calls on small business owners to take part in supplier programme

17 Mar 2023

Former Chief Operating Officer of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), Phillemon Letwaba has been ordered to pay punitive legal costs to veteran freelance journalist Raymond Joseph (pictured above) / GroundUp

Legal

Court orders former Lottery boss to pay punitive legal costs to journalist

Tania Broughton 1 Mar 2023

Healthcare

Consider more than 200 hospitals for possible exclusion from load shedding, legal team says

27 Feb 2023

National House of Traditional Leaders - Public notice

Legal

National House of Traditional Leaders - Public notice

Issued by BushTelegraf 2 Feb 2023

Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Legal

Court rules on unwed fathers

Tania Broughton 18 Jan 2023

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Legal

Does Sars have a right to intervene in review applications stemming from criminal proceedings?

Virusha Subban and Jarryd Hartley 5 Dec 2022

The battle against the River Club development may well be over after Tuesday’s scathing court finding that activist Tauriq Jenkins (photographed) made fraudulent representations to the court. Archive photo: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Legal

River Club interdict obtained by fraud, three judges rule

Tania Broughton 8 Nov 2022

Equal Education and the South African Democratic Teachers Union have taken the Western Cape Education Department to court. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Education

Equal Education challenges new Western Cape act in court

Daniel Steyn 4 Nov 2022

Tongaat enters into voluntary business rescue

Agriculture

Tongaat enters into voluntary business rescue

31 Oct 2022

Are Hellopeter reviews relevant and trustworthy?

Marketing & Media

Are Hellopeter reviews relevant and trustworthy?

Issued by Hellopeter 26 Oct 2022

The Pretoria High Court judge who ruled against the publication of a report on a State Security Agency document has finally made her judgment public. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Legal

Judge makes U-turn on State Security Agency judgment

Tania Broughton 19 Oct 2022

Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula has been told he must protect Intercape buses. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Legal

Mbalula must protect Intercape buses, court rules

Tania Broughton 3 Oct 2022

First Nations Collective leader Zenzile Khoisan addressing about 200 demonstrators supporting the River Club development outside the High Court on 12 July. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Legal

River Club construction carries on amidst court delays

Steve Kretzmann 5 Sep 2022

Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Legal

Mom wins court battle against medical scheme

Tania Broughton 29 Aug 2022