North West Kgosi accused of blocking lawful mining against government orders
A North West traditional leader has been accused of defying a directive from the Department of Mineral Resources and Petroleum Regulation (DMPR) and blocking a legally... Read more.
Limpopo royal house backs Cyril Ramaphosa over Phala Phala court ruling
The Matsila Royal House has thrown its weight behind President Cyril Ramaphosa following last week’s Constitutional Court ruling on the long-running Phala Phala... Read more.
How ANC raced to neutralise Phala Phala before it tears the party apart
The ANC appears to have moved rapidly into political containment mode following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to take the revived Section 89 impeachment... Read more.
How many Phala Phala dollars can a Constitution booklet hide?
There is a dangerous temptation in South African public discourse to reduce the Phala Phala saga to a crude political contest between defenders and opponents of... Read more.
Black women lawyers will be ‘back out in the cold’ if code falls, court told
Adv Matseleng Lekoane told the Gauteng High Court on Thursday that striking down the Legal Sector Code would condemn Black women lawyers to continued exclusion from... Read more.
‘Transformation becomes a moving target,’ Terry Motau tells court
Adv Terry Motau SC told the Pretoria High Court on Thursday that attorneys remain central to briefing decisions at the Bar and cannot avoid responsibility for patterns... Read more.
‘The white world doesn’t want us’: Muzi Sikhakhane argues in court
Adv Muzi Sikhakhane delivered an impassioned defence of the Legal Sector Code in the Pretoria High Court, arguing that judges must place South Africa’s racial... Read more.
High court hears how black advocates were blocked from progress
The Pretoria High Court heard on Thursday how transformation battles within the advocates’ profession stretch back decades, with senior counsel recounting resistance... Read more.
Legal Sector Code opponents exaggerate impact on firms, court hears
Claims that the Legal Sector Code will have a “catastrophic” effect on law firms are exaggerated and unsupported by expert evidence, Advocate Bogoshi Bokaba... Read more.
Black advocates still struggle for access to work, high court told
South Africa will struggle to transform its judiciary unless black advocates and women receive meaningful access to work at the bar, Advocate Norman Arendse SC told... Read more.
