South Africa is urged to adopt 'child sexual abuse material' as the standard term, as advocacy groups highlight the ...

Scores of legal experts, human rights advocates ... highest percentage of pretrial detainees in Africa, far exceeding Ghana's 12.4 per cent and South Africa's 32.9 per cent, according to the ...

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic ...

The National Adoption Coalition of SA has launched a Constitutional Court challenge to reform laws criminalising parents who abandon their children due to poverty and crisis. With thousands of ...

Based on my experience as an academic as well as an advocate ... most people in South Africa encounter the justice system. These courts deal with a majority of the country’s criminal and civil ...

During Friday’s proceedings, advocate Johann Nel, counsel for Moorosi, argued that the state had failed to make a case. “The application should, therefore, be dismissed,” he said.

Renowned lawyer and former Mt Pleasant MP Advocate Fadzayi Mahere wasted no ... Self-exiled Zanu PF loyalist Kudzai Mutisi, based in South Africa, also weighed in, lambasting his own party's ...

Proposed Criminal Procedure Act reforms fall short of real change, warns POPCRU ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Athol Fugard, South Africa's foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as "The Blood Knot" and "’Master Harold’ ...