Human Rights
Right to die: Dying doctor’s testimony to be heard in camera
Lawyers cite patient confidentiality as the reason for barring the media
Law | 5 March 2021
Right to die: patients would be vulnerable to unscrupulous doctors and relatives, judge hears
Health Professions Council’s lawyer argues that a legal option available to people is to starve themselves to death
News | 4 March 2021
Dying man cross-examined in euthanasia case
Ministers oppose bid to change the law
Law | 2 March 2021
School left with incomplete building
Construction company says it is owed R8 million by Eastern Cape education department
News | 2 March 2021
Children’s shelter faces closure after department stops funding
“We have no option but to go out in the streets begging” says a 20-year-old living at the shelter
News | 2 March 2021
A dying man makes the case for legalising euthanasia
“My biggest fear is that when my love of life reaches the stage of fearing life, I will not be able to die” says Diethelm Harck
Law | 1 March 2021
Zimbabwean couple demand gay rights
Yet having fled Zimbabwe, they face “corrupt, homophobic and xenophobic” Home Affairs in South Africa, says NGO
News | 26 February 2021
Judgment reserved in Drakenstein emergency housing case
Court was “left to speculate” about the municipality’s emergency housing plan, argues advocate
By Liezl Human
Brief | 23 February 2021
Constitutional Court outlaws bigotry from beyond the grave
The court overturned a will written 119 years ago which stipulated that only male descendants could inherit
Law | 23 February 2021