Citizenship goes to the core of a person’s identity and their sense of belonging. However, the legal status of citizenship plagued many South Africans, sometimes even unbeknown to them, as the South African Citizenship Act 88 of 1995 (“Act”) provided that a South African citizen shall cease to be such citizen if they acquire the…

Sometimes the courts can go for months without hearing any restraint of trade cases. And then, suddenly, there’s a flood – at least three decisions so far this year, all dealing with a restraint of trade dispute and all of them concerning medically-related practices. Between them, they spell out principles that are crucial for consideration…

Factions often arise within groups, communities, or organisations, particularly when financial or other benefits are at stake. However, laws and regulations exist to manage such situations, ensuring that they are not interpreted or manipulated for people’s personal agendas. 
This is exactly what happened in the case of Glencore Operations SA (Pty) Limited and Others v …

A regular occurrence in the world of the drafting of Wills is when the maker of a Will (the testator/testatrix) expresses a wish to bequeath property to one or more heirs, subject to a usufruct over the property in favour of another heir.  
A Will may for example specify that the testator bequeaths his immovable…

‘‘In our law of succession, the estate of a deceased person does not include rights and liabilities of a purely personal nature attached to that person and that have terminated with the death of the deceased.’’ But what is the legal position when the rights to which the deceased would have been entitled…

The constitutional court’s recent decision in Rademeyer v Ferreira sheds a clarifying light on the very point at which a debt relating to a purchaser’s obligations stemming from a sale of property agreement gone wrong, is formed and the time limit within which a seller must enforce those rights before they expire completely. Interestingly, the…

In January this year the high court delivered a landmark judgment in the case of Body Corporate The Straight v Jansen Madike Katisi. The judgment addresses the issue of non-paying unit owners enjoying an electricity supply at the expense of the body corporate.  
Read the case here, 
https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAGPJHC/2025/2.html 
The matter involved an application for…