The Children’s Act fails to recognise permanent life partners as legal parents of children conceived through artificial insemination
Since the recently-decided High Court case of Jane Bwanya vs The Master of the High Court, the Constitutional Court affirmed and acknowledged the reality of the many diversified families that exist within South African society. In the above case, the Constitutional...
The role of teachers in protecting learners outside the school
Access to justice for children is defined by UNICEF as “the ability of children to obtain a remedy when their rights are being violated, not respected or denied”. Children, like their adult counterparts, have rights and disputes that require legal remedies. Due to the...
The employers’ benefit under Section 37D of the Pension Fund Act
A retirement fund is built up through the contributions of both the employer and employee over the course of the employee’s employment. It attempts to hold the employers accountable, to make pay-outs to employees at their retirement age and not leave them...
Legal practitioners soldier on for eight years despite numerous difficulties
It is with pleasure and relief that we announce the final closure of one of our most challenging and difficult cases in the One Child A Year (OCAY) campaign. The case first came to ProBono.Org in 2014 by the mother of two minor children after her husband had filed for...
Securing the Rights of Children and Unmarried Fathers
Menzile Lawrence Naki, a South African man, and Dimitrila Marie Ndovya, a woman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) wanted to register the birth of their child born in Grahamstown on 1 February 2016 with the Department of Home Affairs. Ms Ndovya was in the...Let’s keep in touch
