Bernadette Wicks

Local dance crew Sublime has locked down a gold medal in this year's Hip Hop Unite World Championships.

In November 2023, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ordered an overhaul of South Africa's "discriminatory" laws on maternity and paternity leave and as the judgment heads to the Constitutional Court for confirmation this week, the Limpopo couple whose story inspired the landmark ruling are excited about the prospect of effecting change in the lives of parents and families across the country.

The Constitutional Court has heard that legislation which automatically strips South Africans of their citizenship when they become citizens of another country serves "no purpose".

While recent moves by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development to blacklist child maintenance defaulters have been widely welcomed, experts and advocates have raised questions around how the system will work on a practical level.

Two years after Medihelp was slapped with an order from the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria forcing it to cover the cost of treatment for a now 5-year-old Alberton boy with a rare inherited genetic condition, the medical aid scheme is still fighting to avoid having to pay up and now wants the court to reconsider its decision.

An Alberton mother embroiled in a protracted legal battle to try to get her 5-year-old son's medical aid to cover treatment for a rare inherited genetic condition he suffers from says she lives "in a state of grief".