Home Search
Pretoria High Court - search results
If you're not happy with the results, please do another search
Home Affairs may no longer block your ID on a whim,...
Judge gives scathing ruling with punitive cost order
TANIA BROUGHTON
• A woman and three organisations took Home Affairs to court for blocking Identity Documents without...
Court ruling exempting hospitals, schools, police stations from load-shedding welcomed
Stakeholders have welcomed the Pretoria high court ruling ordering the government to ensure public hospitals, clinics, schools and police stations are shielded from load-shedding.
The...
Angelo Agrizzi to make virtual appearance at inquiry about failure to...
The application brought by the state against fraud and corruption accused Angelo Agrizzi’s fitness to stand trial could not proceed on Tuesday after the...
Oscar Pistorius’ parole application removed from court roll​
Discussions about the parole application hearing of Oscar Pistorius are under way after the matter was removed from the Pretoria high court roll.
The Paralympian...
Donations to internal campaigns for political leadership must be disclosed: ConCourt
Members of the executive should disclose donations to internal party campaigns, the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday.
The case on the constitutionality of the Executive...
Eastern Cape artist claiming to be rightful designer of SA’s flag,...
A Makhanda based artist who claims to be the original designer of the South African flag is taking the matter to court to fight...
ConCourt overturns life sentence of law student who stabbed police officers...
A law student who stabbed two Pretoria police officers, allegedly believing they were criminals out to rob him, has succeeded in having his murder...
Ramaphosa did not mislead on CR17, Mkhwebane cannot probe political parties’...
President Cyril Ramaphosa did not mislead parliament in relation to the donation made to his ANC presidential election campaign in 2017.
The public protector also...
Jacob Zuma suffers another heavy court loss
Former president Jacob Zuma suffered another court blow when the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein dismissed his appeal against a judgment which...
Zuma vs Zondo continues as former president goes to court after...
Former president Jacob Zuma's lawyers have filed papers at the Pretoria high court to challenge deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo's refusal to recuse himself...
Shepherd Bushiri and co-accused due in court on same day in...
A bail application hearing involving self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri’s co-accused Willah Mudolo has been postponed to December 14.
“The matter was back on the roll...
Desperate message from senior judge shows court system is cracking
The wheels of justice are grinding slowly at one of SA’s most important courts.
The Pretoria high court (or Gauteng Division as it is also...
Lindiwe Sisulu taken to court by ousted Umgeni Water board members
Human settlements, water & sanitation minister Lindiwe Sisulu has been dragged to the high court in Pietermaritzburg by former board members of Umgeni Water...
Tobacco firms to fight sales ban at Supreme Court of Appeal
The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) is still in the fight to overturn the lockdown ban on tobacco sales after the Supreme Court of...
Blow for smokers as Fita has court setback but tobacco battle...
The Fair-Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) says it will petition the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) after a setback in court in its challenge...
DA to approach courts to keep nation’s schools open
Closing schools increases the risk of children – especially those from poorer families – being left home alone while parents are forced to return...
MPs slam NPA’s failure to prosecute ‘high profile’ corruption
Opposition MPs' patience with the National Prosecuting Authority appears to be wearing thin, as they lashed out at the authority's slow pace in prosecuting...
Court to hear BAT SA tobacco ban challenge on Tuesday
The high court in Cape Town will hear British American Tobacco SA's (BAT) application to have the ban on the sale of tobacco products...
‘This is cruelty’: cig makers, NDZ exchange blows in court
The cigarette ban was an act of cruelty designed to beat people into submission.
This was the argument by the Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association...
Judgment reserved: the battle of wills in court over tobacco ban
The Fair Trade Independent Tobacco Association (Fita) argued before the full bench of the high court in Pretoria on Wednesday why it wants regulations...
Court dismisses union’s bid to halt ‘reckless’ decision to open schools
The Pretoria high court on Wednesday dismissed an application by the Educators' Union of South Africa (Eusa) to stop schools from reopening.
Union spokesperson Kabelo...
Dlamini-Zuma had to be ‘swift’ when banning cigarettes, lawyer tells court
Co-operative governance & traditional affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is within her powers to make regulations which prohibit the sale of tobacco products during the...
ConCourt judge Johan Froneman retires after 26 years on the bench
Constitutional Court judge Johan Froneman has retired, capping a judicial career spanning 26 years.
The office of the chief justice said in a statement on...
Court needs time to prep for teachers’ union bid to stop...
The Pretoria high court says it needs time to prepare before it can hear an application by the Educators' Union of SA for an...
This is why we banned cigarette sales: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma tells court
The overarching rationale behind temporarily banning the sale of tobacco products during level 4 of the lockdown was to protect human life and health...
Court rules in favour of Collins Khosa family & declares all...
The high court in Pretoria on Friday declared that all people in SA are entitled to a number of rights which cannot be suspended,...
Police remove foreign refugees from UN property in Pretoria
Police have removed foreign refugees from outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) in Brooklyn, Pretoria, where they had been camping following...
Ramaphosa’s court application on Sars pension payout has ‘no merit whatsoever’:...
Busisiwe Mkhwebane's insistence that remedial action by the public protector be implemented immediately ignored the fact of a pending judicial review against her report.
This...
Julius Malema fails in court bid to challenge law after land...
The Pretoria high court on Thursday struck down EFF leader Julius Malema's application to have the Riotous Assemblies Act declared unconstitutional.
The charges of inciting...
Court says Dutch Reformed Church’s gay pastors can have same-sex unions
A Pretoria high court judgment on Friday, which overturned the Dutch Reformed Church's decision not to recognise same-sex unions within the church, is a...