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Case law

Constitutional Court judgments

Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.

Handed downJudgment
20 Sep 2022 William Grobler v Clara Philips and Others[2022] ZACC 32 · CCT243/21 · Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act 19 of 1998 — section 4(7) — factors to be taken into account — evict...
22 Aug 2022 NUMSA obo Aubrey Dhludhlu and 147 Others v Marley Pipe Systems (SA) (Pty) Ltd[2022] ZACC 29 · CCT233/21
20 Jul 2022 Seebed CC t/a Siyabonga Convenience Centre v Engen Petroleum Limited[2022] ZACC 28 · CCT290/20 · Petroleum Products Act 120 of 1977 — Section 12B Arbitration Referral — Stay of Proceedings Termination of Lease Agreement — Eviction Procee...
19 Jul 2022 Social Justice Coalition and Others v Minister of Police and Others[2022] ZACC 27 · CCT121/21 · Declaratory order — outstanding Equality Court order — constructive refusal — remedy
6 Jul 2022 Mamadi and Another v Premier of Limpopo Province and Others[2022] ZACC 26 · CCT 176/21 · Jurisdiction — Just administrative action — right of access to courts Rule 6(5)(g) — Rule 53 — res judicata Plascon Evans rule — reasonably...
4 Jul 2022 Merifon (Pty) Limited v Greater Letaba Municipality and Another[2022] ZACC 25 · CCT159/21 · legality — enforceability of agreement — section 19 of the Local Government Municipal Finance Management Act 56 of 2003 — peremptory statuto...
29 Jun 2022 Speaker of the National Assembly and Another v New Nation Movement NPC and Others[2022] ZACC 24 · CCT110/19 · Suspended declaration of invalidity — urgent application for extension of a suspension of invalidity — avoid last-minute applications for ex...
28 Jun 2022 e.tv (Pty) Limited and Others v Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies and 11 Others[2022] ZACC 22 · CCT89/22 & CCT92/22 · Analogue switch-off date — duty to give notice — procedural rationality Remedy — review of Minister’s decision — separation of powers — subs...
28 Jun 2022 Women’s Legal Centre Trust v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others[2022] ZACC 23 · CCT24/21 · Muslim marriages — non recognition — infringement of rights to dignity, equality, access to courts and principle of best interests of the ch...
21 Jun 2022 Transnet Soc Limited v Total South Africa (Pty) Limited and Others[2022] ZACC 21 · CCT114/21
15 Jun 2022 Voice of the Unborn Baby NPC and Another v Minister of Home Affairs and Another[2022] ZACC 20 · CCT120/21 · Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 — constitutional validity of sections 18(1) to (3) and 20(1) — order of constitutional invalid...
31 May 2022 Tuta v The State[2022] ZACC 19 · CCT308/20
30 May 2022 Minister of Finance v Sakeliga NPC (previously known as Afribusiness NPC) and Others[2022] ZACC 17 · CCT62/22
30 May 2022 TM obo MM v Member of the Executive Council for Health and Social Development[2022] ZACC 18 · CCT270/21 · Jurisdiction — constitutional issue — interests of justice Leave to appeal — not in the interests of justice to grant leave — leave to appea...
30 May 2022 Arena Holdings (Pty) Limited t/a Financial Mail and Others v South African Revenue Service and Others[2023] ZACC 13 · CCT365/21 · Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 — constitutionality of sections 35 and 46 — provisions are unconstitutional Tax Administrat...
27 May 2022 Minister of Police and Others v Fidelity Security Services (Pty) Limited[2022] ZACC 16 · CCT195/21 · Sections 13 to 20 of the Firearms Control Act 60 of 2000 — [application for licence to possess firearm] — [lapsing of previous licence] — [n...
6 May 2022 Solidarity obo Members and Another v Barloworld Equipment Southern Africa and Others[2022] ZACC 15 · CCT102/21 · Labour Relations Act — meaningful joint consensus-seeking process — selection criteria
5 Apr 2022 AK v Minister of Police[2022] ZACC 14 · CCT94/20 · Delict — wrongfulness — negligence — extent of police liability for negligent police work — psychopathological harm
30 Mar 2022 Adams Damon v City of Cape Town[2022] ZACC 13 · CCT278/20 · Unfair discrimination — reasonable accommodation — inherent requirements of a job — disability law — importance of pleadings in determining...
25 Mar 2022 NVM obo VKM v Tembisa Hospital and Another[2022] ZACC 11 · CCT202/20 · Jurisdiction — section 167(3)(b) of Constitution — sole issue one of factual causation — constitutional considerations not affecting resolut...
25 Mar 2022 Ayres and Another v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Another[2022] ZACC 12 · CCT47/21 · Constitutional law — Foundational values — Rule of law — Doctrine of Precedent
15 Mar 2022 Andrew Tuee Baloyi N.O. and Others v Pawn Stars CC and Another[2022] ZACC 10 · CCT15/21 · Rule 46A of the Uniform Rules of Court — legal persons and trusts — determination of alleged constitutional issue not reasonably necessary f...
11 Mar 2022 Municipal Employees Pension Fund and Another v Dineo Innolentia Mongwaketse[2022] ZACC 9 · CCT34/21 · Pension Funds Act 24 of 1956 — definitions of “complainant” and “complaint” — purported admission to membership of ineligible member — wheth...
4 Mar 2022 Barnard Labuschagne Incorporated v South African Revenue Service and Another[2022] ZACC 8 · CCT60/21 · Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011 — sections 172 and 174 — certified statement filed by South African Revenue Service to be treated as civil...
1 Mar 2022 Commercial Stevedoring Agricultural and Allied Workers Union and Others v Oak Valley Estates (Pty) Limited and Another[2022] ZACC 7 · CCT 301/20 · Right to strike — final interdict — leave to appeal is granted — interdictory relief is only competent if respondents are linked to the actu...
28 Feb 2022 National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union v Minister of Public Service and Administration and others CCT 21/21 ; National South African Democratic Teachers Union and Others v Department of Public Service and Administration and Others CCT 28/21;[2022] ZACC 6 · Sections 213, 215 and 216 of the Constitution — regulations 78 and 79 of the Public Service Regulations — collective bargaining Leave to app...
17 Feb 2022 Mineral Sands Resources Propriety Limited and Another v Christine Reddell and Others[2022] ZACC 37 · CCT66/21 · Defamation — abuse of process — SLAPP suit defence — ulterior purpose — consideration of the merits
16 Feb 2022 Minister of Finance v Afribusiness NCP[2022] ZACC 4 · CCT279/20 · Section 217 of the Constitution — Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act 5 of 2000 — Preferential Procurement Regulations, 2017 Minis...
16 Feb 2022 South African Human Rights Commission on behalf of South African Jewish Board of Deputies v Masuku and Another (South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation, Psychological Society of South Africa, Freedom of Expression Institute...[2022] ZACC 5 · CCT14/19 · Application for recusal — reasonable apprehension of bias — grounds for recusal not met Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discr...
15 Feb 2022 Municipal Manager: OR Tambo District Municipality v Nosipho Portia Ndabeni[2022] ZACC 3 · CCT45/21 · Local Government Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 — section 66(1) — section 66(3) and (5) — nullity of a court order — court orders are bind...
11 Feb 2022 Cash Paymaster Services (Pty) Limited (In Liquidation) and Others v Freedom Under Law NPC & Others[2022] ZACC 2 · CCT48/17 · Joinder — direct and substantial interest — such not shown Variation of order — provisional liquidators — section 359(1)(a) of Companies Act...
4 Feb 2022 Speaker of the National Assembly v Public Protector and Others and Democratic Alliance v Public Protector and Others[2022] ZACC 1 · CCT 257/21 and CCT 259/21 · Section 194 of the Constitution — rules of the National Assembly — removal of a Chapter 9 institution office-bearer Separation of powers — a...
31 Dec 2021 Jane Bwanya v The Master of the High Court, Cape Town[2021] ZACC 51 · CCT241/20
30 Dec 2021 Desta Abore v Minister of Home Affairs and Another[2021] ZACC 50 · CCT115/21 · Refugees Act 130 of 1998 — applicability of provisions of the Refugees Amendment Act 11 of 2017 — date of intention to apply for asylum — pr...
13 Dec 2021 Burger N.O. and Others v Bester N.O. and Others[2021] ZACC 48 · CCT246/20 & CCT160/20 · Power of a single trustee to conclude loan agreement on trust’s behalf — use of trust to channel funds to company — factual disputes — no ar...
13 Dec 2021 Bester N.O. and Others v Quintado 120 (Pty) Ltd[2021] ZACC 49 · CCT160/21 · Liquidation — factual enquiry — directing mind of the company test — misapplication of legal test — no jurisdiction
10 Dec 2021 National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa v Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration and Others[2021] ZACC 47 · CCT49/20 · Labour Law — Collective bargaining — Bargaining councils — Dispute about demarcation between sectors and areas — Section 62 of the LRA Demar...
19 Nov 2021 Phillipa Susan Van Zyl N.O v Road Accident Fund[2021] ZACC 44 · CCT114/20 · Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1996 — section 23(1) — section 23(2)(b) and (c) — prescription of claim against the Road Accident Fund — claima...
12 Nov 2021 Union for Police, Security and Corrections Organisation v South African Custodial Management (Pty) Limited and Others[2021] ZACC 41 · CCT228/20
12 Nov 2021 Association for Mineworkers and Construction Union and Others v Anglo Gold Ashanti Limited and Others[2021] ZACC 42 · CCT233/20 · Section 66(2)(c) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — lawfulness of secondary strikes — section 66(2) imports a proportionality assessme...
12 Nov 2021 Mphephu-Ramabulana and Another v Mphephu and Others[2021] ZACC 43 · CCT121/20 · Traditional affairs — Leadership of Royal Family — Presidential decision to recognise traditional leader Traditional Leadership and Governan...
9 Nov 2021 Shiva Uranium (Proprietary) Limited and Another v Mahomed Mahier Tayob and Others[2021] ZACC 40 · CCT305/20 · Companies Act 71 of 2008 — business rescue — practitioner appointed in terms of section 130(6)(a) — resignation — section 139(3) — company t...
8 Nov 2021 Alias Mtolo and Another v Theunis Christoffel Lombard and Others[2021] ZACC 39 · CCT269/21
5 Nov 2021 Kgabagare David Langa v The Premier of the Limpopo Province[2021] ZACC 38 · CCT174/20
22 Oct 2021 The Residents of Industry House and Others v The Minister of Police and Others[2021] ZACC 37 · CCT136/20 · South African Police Service Act 68 of 1995 — constitutionality of section 13(7)(c) — order of constitutional invalidity confirmed — right t...
19 Oct 2021 Mlungisi Wellington Booi v Amathole District Municipality and Others[2021] ZACC 36 · CCT119/20 · Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — remedy of reinstatement — section 193(2)(b) demands that intolerability of continued employment relationsh...
15 Oct 2021 Competition Commission of South Africa v Mediclinic Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd and Another[2021] ZACC 35 · CCT31/20 · section 12A of the Competition Act 89 of 1998 — substantial lessening of competition — impact of a merger on competition —impact on section...
4 Oct 2021 Premier, Gauteng and Others v Democratic Alliance and Others; African National Congress v Democratic Alliance and Others[2021] ZACC 34 · CCT82/20 & CCT91/20 · Section 139(1) of the Constitution — dissolution — exceptional circumstances — 14(4) of Schedule 1 of the Local Government: Municipal System...
28 Sep 2021 Former Way Trade and Ivest (Pty) Limited v Bright Idea Projects 66 (Pty) Limited t/a All Fuels and Another[2021] ZACC 33 · CCT237/20 · Petroleum Products Act 120 of 1977 — section 12B of the Petroleum Products Act does not oust the High Court’s jurisdiction — referral of a f...
22 Sep 2021 Centre For Child Law v Director-General Dept of Home Affairs and Others[2021] ZACC 31 · CCT101/20 · Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 — constitutionality of section 10 — section is unconstitutional Section 9 of the Constitution...