Author: Conviction Staff Reporter

The Mineworkers Provident Fund has been ordered to pay 15.5 percent interest on a delayed death benefit of R458 358.59 after the Pension Funds Adjudicator found that years of inaction prejudiced dependants waiting for payment.

The proposed Gautrain expansion has reignited debate over land expropriation law, with new legislation, major court rulings and constitutional safeguards placing property rights and fair compensation under sharp focus.

A strict insurance exclusion is leaving some South African motorists without cover where insurers can prove they exceeded the speed limit by more than 20km/h.

One in five domestic workers reported verbal, physical, or sexual abuse at work, with many also facing fear, debt, and growing mental health strain.

While the new Africa-centred history curriculum in South African schools has stimulated much debate and some controversy, Africa’s international legal history is likewise emerging from the peripheries of scholarly interest. This was evident during the inaugural lecture by the University of Pretoria’s Professor Babátúndé Fágbàyíbọ́ of the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law. Fágbàyíbọ́ emphasised that his lecture was not an attempt to “romanticise Africa’s past as a perfect, unblemished space”. He said, “The aim was rather to expand the epistemic range of international law by studying the objects of internationality in precolonial Africa”. These included carved objects,…

Pregnant learners are still being pushed out of classrooms and treated unfairly by educators, prompting calls for stronger learner pregnancy regulations.

No South African court has yet ruled on EV charging disputes in community schemes, but trustees are already being forced to make urgent decisions on approvals, billing, liability, and common property rules without legal precedent.

Bayesian Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance explores how models that measure uncertainty, rather than simply produce single answers, could improve lending, insurance and investment decision making, with insights from Dr Wilson Tsakane Mongwe and his co-authors.

Meet Ann-Suhet Marx, the litigator, certified mediator, and legal voice whose experience in litigation, family law, conflict resolution, and legal leadership helps readers better understand complex legal questions.

Homebuyers are entering bond deals without seeing competing offers, as the law does not require banks to disclose that better rates may exist elsewhere.