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Latest Judgments

  • Lewis Stores Proprietary Ltd v Pepkor Holdings Ltd and Others CCT316/25 2026-01-30
  • (a)Director of Public Prosecutions, Johannesburg and Another v Jonathan Schultz and Others CCT 280/24; (b)Director of Public Prosecutions, Bloemfontein v Nomalanga Moroadi Selina Cholota CCT 190/25 2026-01-23
  • VVC v JRM and Others CCT202/24 2026-01-21
  • Tholo Energy Services CC v CSARS CCT252/24 2026-01-16
  • Wares v Additional Magistrate, Simonstown and Others CCT258/24 2025-12-23

Forthcoming

  • Jan Louis Jordaan v MEC for Local Government Environmental Affairs and Development Planning, Western Cape and Others CCT 331/24 03 February 2026 (Tuesday)
  • Goodman Shabangu v The State CCT 281/23 05 February 2026 (Thursday)
  • (A) Brain Gear Investments (Pty) Limited v Buhle Waste (Pty) Limited and Others; CCT 11/25
    (B)Sembcorp Silulumanzi (Rf) (Pty) Limited and Others v Buhle Waste (Pty) Limited and Others; and CCT 12/25
    (C) Sembcorp Utilities (Netherlands) NV v Buhle Waste (Pty) Limited and Others CCT 25/25 10 February 2026 (Tuesday)
  • Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town and Another v Minister of Home Affairs and Others CCT 126/25 12 February 2026 (Thursday)
  • Grancy Property Limited and Another v Dines Chandra Manilal Gihwala and Others CCT 344/24 17 February 2026 (Tuesday)

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Recent Hearings

  • South African Human Rights Commission v Agro Data CC and Another CCT 264/24 25 November 2025 (Tuesday)
  • Lewis Stores (Pty) Limited v Pepkor Holdings Limited and Others CCT316/25 10 December 2025 (Wednesday)
  • Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and Another v Zeal Health Innovations (Pty) Limited CCT 06/25 06 November 2025 (Thursday)
  • (a)Director of Public Prosecutions, Johannesburg and Another v Jonathan Schultz and Others CCT280/24
    (b)Director of Public Prosecutions, Bloemfontein v Nomalanga Moroadi Selina Cholota CCT190/25 04 November 2025(Tuesday) 
  • NUMSA and Others v Industrial Oleo Chemical Products CCT 367/24 30 September 2025 (Thursday)
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The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1955 carried the idea forward. 

 

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