Property transactions rarely unravel overnight. A deal that starts smoothly with a signed Offer to Purchase (OTP) and a paid deposit can quickly run into delays, disputes, or outright collapse. When that happens, one question matters most: who protects the
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How to Make Your Beach Wedding Legally Valid in South Africa
South Africa’s coastline draws couples from across the country and abroad. The beaches of the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, and the Garden Route are among the most scenic wedding backdrops imaginable. What many couples do not realise until late in the
DO ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES HAVE A PLACE IN CONVEYANCING?
Technology is steadily moving transactions away from paper and wet-ink signatures towards digital documents and electronic signing. Yet many processes in the South African legal profession remain firmly paper based. Is this merely “old-school” practice, or is there sound reason
Schoolboy Rugby Transfer Sheets: What Parental Consent Means in Family Law and What POPIA Does to Blogs That Publish Without It.
In a recent article for my Substack newsletter I looked at the running “transfer sheets” that some rugby websites keep of schoolboy players moving between schools, and I asked a data protection question: who consented to each boy’s entry? That
Gaza ceasefire ‘exists in name only’ as over 1,400 Palestinians are killed in a year, rights groups warn
Amnesty International, in a joint statement with over 100 human rights and humanitarian organization issued Friday, condemned Israel’s persistent violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, and warned that such violations render the ceasefire meaningless.
Amnesty called for the ceasefire to
Pension Interest Now Redistributable in All Marriages Without Accrual: The Constitutional Court Strikes Down Section 7(7)(c) of the Divorce Act in GD v Minister of Home Affairs and Others (CCT 60/25) [2026] ZACC 39 (9 October 2026).
The facts and the road to the Constitutional CourtThe applicant, Mrs D, and the third respondent, Mr D, met in 1999 and married on 25 April 2004 out of community of property and without accrual. By the time the matter
A Focus On South Africa
This post highlights seven FCPA enforcement actions concerning conduct (in whole or in part) in South Africa.
AAR (2024)
The enforcement action concerned conduct in South Africa and Nepal.
As to South Africa, the allegations were: “between January 2016 and
When Both Sides Lose: “Absence”, Self-Created Urgency and a Decade of Maintenance Litigation: E.H v J.C.J.V.D (19849/2022) [2026] ZAWCHC 576 (2 October 2026).
A Decade of Enforcement and a Friday Evening HearingThe judgment in E.H v J.C.J.V.D (19849/2022) [2026] ZAWCHC 576 (2 October 2026), delivered by Greig AJ in the Western Cape Division, is the latest instalment in a maintenance dispute that has
Joining a Family Trust to a Divorce: Why Rule 10 Shut the Door in S[…] v S[…] and Others: In re: S[…] v S[…] (2115/2020) [2026] ZANCHC 86 (5 October 2026).
An Inherited Farm, a Discretionary Family Trust and a Marriage at an End: The FactsIn S[…] v S[…] and Others: In re: S[…] v S[…] (2115/2020) [2026] ZANCHC 86 (5 October 2026), Nxumalo J in the Northern Cape Division of
A Mother’s Place at the Umgidi: Living Customary Law, Gender Equality and the Myth of the Magic Age of 18 — S.Z.Z v S.Z (2026/196397) [2026] ZAGPJHC 1099 (25 September 2026).
The Facts: A Mother Excluded from Her Son’s Rite of PassageIn S.Z.Z v S.Z (2026/196397) [2026] ZAGPJHC 1099 (25 September 2026) a divorced mother approached the Gauteng Division, Johannesburg, on a semi-urgent basis for declaratory and interdictory relief against her