Newest first, read from the court's own list the day each is handed down.
| Handed down | Judgment |
|---|---|
| 1 Aug 2025 | Magalone Mereki and Others v Moladora Trust and Another[2025] ZACC 16 · CCT121/24 · Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 (ESTA) — consent to graze cattle — such consent a right to use land for purposes of ESTA — te... |
| 31 Jul 2025 | Vodacom (Pty) Ltd v Makate and Another[2025] ZACC 13 · CCT51/24 |
| 25 Jul 2025 | President of the Republic of South Africa v Speaker of the National Assembly and Others[2025] ZACC 12 · CCT278/19 |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Mavundla v Gotcha Security Services (Pty) Limited[2025] ZACC 11 · CCT170/24 · Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — reinstatement of dismissed employee — claim for arrear remuneration — delay in factual reinstatement due t... |
| 8 May 2025 | Mothulwe v Labour Court, Johannesburg and Others[2025] ZACC 10 · CCT13/24 · Rescission — res judicata — section 34 of the Constitution — access to courts |
| 7 May 2025 | Blind SA v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others[2025] ZACC 9 · CCT300/24 · Copyright Act 98 of 1978 — direct access — urgent relief after lapse of section 13A reading-in order — interim order to protect rights of pe... |
| 6 May 2025 | Democratic Alliance v Minister of Home Affairs and Another[2025] ZACC 8 · CCT184/23 · Citizenship Act 88 of 1995 — confirmation application — constitutionality of section 6(1)(a) — loss of citizenship — order of constitutional... |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Huntrex 277 (Pty) Ltd v Berzack and Others[2025] ZACC 6 · CCT69/23 · Servitude — whether praedial or personal — approach to interpretation of servitude — whether servitude compliant with principles of property... |
| 30 Apr 2025 | Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others v Ntuli[2025] ZACC 7 · CCT322/23 · Correctional Services Policy Procedures on Formal Education Programmes — right to further education — use of personal computers in prison ce... |
| 24 Apr 2025 | Shaynaz Prithilal v Akani Egoli (Pty) Limited and Another[2025] ZACC 5 · CCT290/24 · Attorney and client costs — Court’s duty to give reasons — sections 1(c) and 34 of the Constitution |
| 9 Apr 2025 | South African Municipal Workers’ Union v Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Another[2025] ZACC 4 · CCT 334/23 · Local Government: Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 — Declaration of constitutional invalidity — confirmation — municipal employees — limitat... |
| 31 Mar 2025 | United Manganese of Kalahari (Pty) Limited v Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and four other cases[2025] ZACC 2 · CCT94/23;CCT 98/23;CCT 66/23;CCT 72/23 & CCT 320/23 · Section 105 of Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011 — test for granting a direction — relevant considerations in granting or refusing direction... |
| 31 Mar 2025 | Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service v Richards Bay Coal Terminal (Pty) Ltd[2025] ZACC 3 · CCT104/23 · Customs and Excise Act 91 of 1964 — tariff determination — section 47(9)(e) — wide appeal — review in terms of Promotion of Administrative J... |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Ekapa Minerals (Pty) Ltd and Another v Sol Plaatje Local Municipality and Others[2025] ZACC 1 · CCT119/23 · [municipal property rates] — [principle of legality] — [section 172(1)(b)] — [just and equitable relief] — [review proceedings] |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Commissioner for the South Africa Revenue Service v Medtronic International Trading S.A.R.L[2024] ZACC 26 · CCT79/23 |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Charnelle Commando and Others v City of Cape Town and Another[2024] ZACC 27 · CCT49/23 · Gentrification — eviction — temporary emergency accommodation — inner city Spatial apartheid — unconstitutional — progressive realisation —... |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Mawanda Makhala and Another v Director of Public Prosecutions, Western Cape[2024] ZACC 28 · CCT237/22 · Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 — admissibility of recanted section 204 statements without other incriminating evidence — statements inadm... |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Motor Industry Staff Association and Another v Great South Africa Autobody CC t/a Great South Panelbeaters CCT298/22 & Solidarity obo Gerhardus Viljoen Strydom and Others v State Information Technology Agency Soc Limited[2024] ZACC 29 · CCT 346/22 · Automatically unfair dismissal in terms of section 187(1)(f) of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — dismissal based on age — age discrimin... |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Sithole v S[2024] ZACC 30 · CCT118/23 · Military Discipline Supplementary Measures Act 16 of 1999 — Defence Act 42 of 2002 — military judges — judicial independence — boards of inq... |
| 20 Dec 2024 | Ingwana John Mohlaba and Others v The Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Others[2024] ZACC 32 · CCT07/24 · Limpopo Traditional Leadership and Institutions Act 6 of 2005 — constitutionality of section 25 — section is unconstitutional — only legisla... |
| 19 Nov 2024 | Govan Mbeki Local Municipality v Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Limited and Others; Emalahleni Local Municipality v Glencore Operations South Africa (Pty) Limited and Others[2024] ZACC 25 · CCT 189/22; CCT 191/22 · Municipal planning by-laws — transfer embargoes — delegated powers under section 32(1) of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 1... |
| 25 Oct 2024 | Rademeyer v Ferreira[2024] ZACC 24 · CCT184/22 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — sale agreement — same cause of action — breach of contract — specific performance — right to claim damages |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Herman Botha v Bool Smuts and Another[2024] ZACC 22 · CCT40/22 · Section 14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa — right to privacy — information in public domain — voluntary public disclosu... |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Swanepoel N.O. (Executor in the Estate Late Mignon Adelia Steyn) v Profmed Medical Scheme[2024] ZACC 23 · CCT336/22 · Medical Schemes Act 131 of 1998 — substitution — transmissibility of right to just administrative action — procedural fairness — material no... |
| 3 Oct 2024 | President of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Wezizwe Feziwe Sigcau and Others[2024] ZACC 21 · CCT282/22 · Admin law — Commission committed no error of law or fact —No basis to review the Commission’s findings — Customary law — Commission sufficie... |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Thistle Trust v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZACC 19 · CCT337/22 · Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 — Section 25B — Section 26A — conduit principle — capital gains tax — beneficiaries Tax Administration Act 28 of 2... |
| 2 Oct 2024 | Greater Tzaneen Municipality v Bravospan 252 CC[2024] ZACC 20 · CCT342/22 · Compensation for services delivered pursuant to an unlawful tender process — court not placed in a position to decide substantive basis for... |
| 18 Sep 2024 | Speaker of the National Assembly and Another v Women's Legal Centre Trust and Others[2024] ZACC 18 · CCT24/21 · Declaration of invalidity — extension of the period of suspension — Marriage Bill — public involvement — urgent application — just and equit... |
| 15 Aug 2024 | Shoprite Checkers (Pty) Limited v Mafate N.O.[2024] ZACC 16 · CCT55/23 |
| 17 Jul 2024 | Chief Avhatendi Ratshibvumo Rambuda and Others v Tshibvumo Royal Family and Others[2024] ZACC 15 · CCT255/22 · Limpopo Traditional Leadership and Institutions Act 6 of 2005 — interpretation of section 12(2) — authority to identify a new headman or hea... |
| 12 Jul 2024 | Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform v Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa[2024] ZACC 14 · CCT311/22 · Prevention of Organised Crime Act 121 of 1998 — civil recovery of property under Chapter 6 — competing claims for exclusion of “interest” in... |
| 21 Jun 2024 | Coronation Investment Management SA (Pty) Ltd v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZACC 11 · CCT47/23 · Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 — section 9D exemption — foreign controlled company — foreign business establishment — meaning of “business” and “... |
| 21 Jun 2024 | Mphephu-Ramabulana Royal Family v Premier, Limpopo Province and Others[2024] ZACC 12 · CCT373/22 · Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act 3 of 2019 — section 13(1) — recognition of traditional leader — failure to make a decision Direct le... |
| 21 Jun 2024 | AGFRI Animal Feeds v National Union of Metalworkers South Africa and Others[2024] ZACC 13 · CCT188/22 · Sections 161 and 200 of the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 — locus standi of trade union — trade union constitution — definitive of powers... |
| 31 May 2024 | City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality In re: Unlawful Occupiers: 1 Argyl Street and Others v Rohlandt Holdings CC and Others[2024] ZACC 10 · CCT228/22 · Prenuptial agreement — providing for maintenance — pleaded as unspecified donation — Divorce Act 70 of 1979 — section 7 — not triggered Pren... |
| 22 May 2024 | D H B v C S B[2024] ZACC 9 · CCT293/22 · Prenuptial agreement — providing for maintenance — pleaded as unspecified donation — Divorce Act 70 of 1979 — section 7 — not triggered Pren... |
| 21 May 2024 | Regenesys Management (Pty) Ltd t/a Regenesys v Ilunga and Others[2024] ZACC 8 · CCT220/22 · Employees’ posts declared redundant — inadequate consultation — employees required to apply for own positions unsuccessful — selection crite... |
| 20 May 2024 | Electoral Commission of South Africa v Umkhonto Wesizwe Political Party and Others[2024] ZACC 6 · CCT97/24 · [Recusal] — [double requirement of reasonableness] — [narrow and defined legal issue] — [no reasonable apprehension of bias] [Section 47(1)(... |
| 20 May 2024 | (A)African Congress for Transformation v Electoral Commission of South Africa CCT 106/24; (B)Labour Party of South Africa v Electoral Commission of South Africa and Others CCT 113/24; (C)Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats v Electoral Commission of South[2024] ZACC 7 · Electoral Act 73 of 1998 — compliance with election timetable — free and fair elections — section 19 of the Constitution — direct access — l... |
| 6 May 2024 | President of the Republic of South Africa and Another v Tembani and Others[2024] ZACC 5 · CCT162/22 · Prescription — delictual claims for damages — unconstitutionality of President’s conduct a component of alleged wrongfulness — whether compl... |
| 25 Apr 2024 | Tumelo Mafisa v Road Accident Fund[2024] ZACC 4 · CCT156/22 · Road Accident Fund — settlement agreement — High Court’s unilateral alteration of settlement agreement irregular and improper |
| 17 Apr 2024 | Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (Pty) Ltd v Competition Commission and Another[2024] ZACC 3 · CCT192/22 · Competition Act 89 of 1998 — Rules for the Conduct of Proceedings in the Competition Commission — standard of review in special statutory re... |
| 12 Apr 2024 | Capitec Bank Limited v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service[2024] ZACC 1 · CCT209/22 · Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991 — whether a supply free of charge may constitute a taxable supply Value-Added Tax Act 89 of 1991 — section 16... |
| 12 Apr 2024 | Petrus Johannes Bestbier and Others v Nedbank Limited[2024] ZACC 2 · CCT181/22 · Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 — Rule 46A of Uniform Rules of Court — residential property — party who may be affected |
| 23 Dec 2023 | Eskom v Vaal River Development Association (Pty) Ltd and Others[2022] ZACC 44 · CCT44/22 · Interim interdicts — nature of prima facie right — rights in Bill of Rights — content of rights — whether rights established — role of final... |
| 18 Dec 2023 | Pieter Paul Le Roux and Another v Johannes G ` Coetzee and Seuns and Another[2023] ZACC 46 · CCT117/22 · Prescription Act 68 of 1969 — section 12(3) — clients’ professional negligence claim against legal practitioner — knowledge of facts may inc... |
| 12 Dec 2023 | Saboath General Traders (Pty) Ltd t/a Sausage Saloon and Another v Mthatha Mall (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZACC 43 · CCT 323/22 · Ouster of jurisdiction of Magistrate’s Court in lease agreement — interests of justice and leave to appeal |
| 12 Dec 2023 | Ditsoane v ACWA Power Africa Holdings (Pty) Ltd[2023] ZACC 44 · CCT107/23 · Notice of withdrawal of case — filed without client’s authority — ratification and ostensible authority not proved Labour Court – revival of... |
| 12 Dec 2023 | Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town v Minister of Home Affairs and Others[2023] ZACC 45 · CCT 51/23 · Refugees Act 30 of 1998 — constitutionality of subsections 22(12) and 22(13) — provisions are unconstitutional Failure to renew visa — resul... |
| 4 Dec 2023 | Tereza Rayment and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others, Richard Anderson and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Others[2023] ZACC 40 · CCT176/22 · Immigration Act 13 of 2002 — invalidity of sections 10(6), 11(6) and 18(2) — Immigration Regulations — invalidity of regulation 9(9)(a) — in... |