Criminalising cannabis use by children is unconstitutional, court rules
Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences
Law | 3 August 2020
Hundreds protest in JHB against government’s response to Covid-19
“Their schemes and promises have only opened up avenues for corruption by the ANC and its supporters”
By Zoë Postman
News | 1 August 2020
Twenty arrested after shops of foreign nationals looted and torched
Human rights groups have criticised government’s inaction to deal with xenophobic attacks
News | 31 July 2020
OUTA lays fraud and racketeering complaint over Lottery grants
“NLC officials are intentionally turning a blind eye and are thus complicit and criminally liable”
News | 28 July 2020
SANDF cuts Happiness Village off from the world, places community leader under house arrest
Lawyers say army has no right to conduct “military exercises” in and around the informal settlement
News | 26 July 2020
Covid-19 hits East Rand hard
Benoni shelter battles increase in poverty
By Justin Brown
News | 24 July 2020
Children born abroad with one South African parent have right to citizenship
Constitutional Court says that Home Affairs conduct is “brazenly incompetent”, intransigent, indifferent and inefficient
Law | 24 July 2020
79-year-old in housing occupation faces eviction
Only 54 houses built in six years instead of 600 in Nigel housing project
News | 22 July 2020
COSAS shuts down schools in Alexandra
“Pure criminality” says Gauteng Education Department
Brief | 22 July 2020