Wandile is a Researcher at Natural Justice (NJ), Southern Africa Hub and a PhD candidate in Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He holds a LLB (University of KwaZulu-Natal) and a LLM in Environmental Law (UCT).
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Upholding Democratic Taxation, Accountability, and Rural Democracy in South Africa
On 20 December 2024, South Africa’s Constitutional Court (CC) handed down judgment in Mohlaba v Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs. The CC confirmed the High Court’s order of invalidity that section 25 of the ...
Breaking Chains of Archaic and Patriarchal Tradition: High Court of South Africa Redefines Surname Rights for Marriages
On September 13, 2024, the High Court of South Africa in JJ and Others v Minister of Home Affairs and Another (3626/2024) [2024] ZAFSHC 286 held that section 26(1)(a) - (c) of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 (“the ...
Indirect Criminalisation of Homelessness: Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson
Homelessness continues to disproportionately affect the most vulnerable and disadvantaged populations in the US and across the world. However, there is a discernible change in judicial opinion in the US toward homelessness, which ...
South African High Court Rules that Tribal Levies are Unconstitutional and Contrary to Customary Law
On 1 November 2023, the High Court of South Africa held that levies involuntarily imposed under section 25 of the Limpopo Traditional Leaders and Institutions Act 6 of 2005 (the Act) to community members living under traditional ...
