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Homeless people out in the cold in Gauteng

The 10th of July 2023 was marked with joy and jubilation by many residents in Gauteng as the province experienced snow for the first time since 2012. For the ...

Addressing Provincial Health Departments’ Medicolegal Claims Liability II: Transforming Litigation Strategies And Tackling Corruption

Provinces' medicolegal claims liability is largely caused by negligence and intentional wrongdoing by the State Attorney when defending these claims. This ...

Addressing Provincial Health Departments’ Medicolegal Claims Liability: Developing The Law Of Delict

Provincial health departments face numerous claims for damages for medical negligence. The common law provides that payments must be made in one lump sum, but ...

Why Is Burger King Proving a Hard Sell?

This brief explores the legal basis for the Competition Commission prohibiting the purchase of Burger King by Emerging Capital Partners, and argues that it was ...

Department seeks to amend the legislation governing the public service, but squanders the opportunity for meaningful reform

This brief examines the Department of Public Service and Administration's proposed amendments to the legislative scheme governing the public service. It is ...

The Expropriation Bill - Why is everyone focusing on expropriation without compensation and not on the major land reform issues?

This brief examines the many problematic aspects on the subject of land reform in South Africa and points out that the proposed amendment to the Constitution ...

Whom The Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad

How to achieve redistribution with growth in a period of economic decline is difficult and the beginning of wisdom is to avoid actions which make things worse ...

Who Are The Hungry Children? And How Far Can Increases In Social Grants Help Them? Evidence From The 2019 General Household Survey.

Hunger, and particularly child hunger, have been discussed recently as a justification for extending the social grant system. This brief probes the ...

The Public Sector Wage Dispute: Understanding the judgment of the Labour Appeal Court

This brief considers and evaluates the reasoning of the Labour Appeal Court in the public sector wage dispute and considers the implications of its judgment, ...

Human Settlements In The Metros

This Brief discusses the Department of Human Settlements’ proposed re-orientation of its policies.