Ermelo
High School fights for Afrikaans - 6 July
The admission policy of Hoerskool Ermelo was nonracial because the
school admitted pupils of all races willing to receive tuition in
Afrikaans, the school and its governing body have said in a
written submission to the Constitutional Court. The governing body
and Mpumalanga education department are litigating over the
school's Afrikaans-only language policy. The school and the
governing body are opposing the department's appeal against the
Supreme Court of Appeal judgment in March that the governing body,
and not the department, had exclusive power to determine the
language policy of an existing school. - allAfrica
website
See
also :
27 March 2009
219/2008 [2009] ZASCA 22
; 2009
(3) SA 422 (SCA)
Hoërskool Ermelo and Another v Head of Department of Education :
Mpumalanga and Others
State
plays for more time - 9 July
The government is begging South Africa's highest court not to
allow citizens who have successfully sued the state but haven't
been paid out, to seize its property. The director-general of
justice, Menzi Simelane, argues that, should the Constitutional
Court find that state assets may be seized to satisfy unpaid costs
orders against the government, "the magnitude of the
prejudice to the state (would be) unfathomable". "I say
without fear of contradiction that the machinery of the state will
come to a complete standstill," he stated in an urgent court
application. - IOL website
Keyphrase :
Draft State Liability Bill
Supporting
documents - 21 May
A Constitutional Court application to force President Jacob Zuma
to initiate legislation for the recognition of Muslim marriages
has been met with opposition. - IOL
website
Keyphrase :
Muslim Marriages Bill