A pension or provident fund is set up to provide an income for a member on retirement or an income for their dependants if...

Labour law mediates the relationship between workers, employers, trade unions and the government.

If the police violate your rights in any manner- whether it is unlawful arrest or police violence or abuse of their power,...

Divorce is the termination of a marital union and/or dissolving the bonds of matrimony between a married couple.

Sections 181 (1) and 184 of the Constitution make provision for the establishment of the Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights...

Democratic South Africa inherited a system of courts that reflected an apartheid dispensation which provided for the Republic of South Africa and the four "independent" states or homelands (Transkei, Bophuthatswana,...

Many black communities live according to indigenous law, which also takes on the form of written or unwritten customary law. Indigenous law is applied in the ordinary courts. The Evidence Amendment Act,...

When a specific matter is not governed by legislation, common law usually applies. South African common law is mainly the 17th and 18th century Roman-Dutch law that was transplanted to the Cape. This forms...

Customary law is generally unwritten law. It is fixed practices in accordance with which people live because they regard it as the law. Customary law therefore does not concern all customs or practices,...

Courts are institutions that apply the law on daily basis. Judges and magistrates, like all lawyers consult legislation and rules of common law and custom applying to the particular case before them. Courts...

Legislation is law laid down by an organ of the State which has the power to do so. These laws are embodied in writing and are known as statutes (or acts). In South Africa, Parliament is the highest organ...

South Africa has an uncodified legal system. This means that there is not only one primary source where the law originates and can be found. South African law has more than one source: Legislation Case...