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What Black Coffee’s Divorce teaches about Customary Marriages

What Black Coffee’s Divorce teaches about Customary Marriages

by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 21 Oct, 2025 | Commercial Litigation, Family Law, Insights

By Sihle Mayedwa | Senior Associate A recent High Court decision arising from the high-profile Black Coffee divorce has clarified core principles that matter far beyond celebrity headlines. It confirms when a customary marriage exists, what property system applies by...
Parental Leave Rewritten by the Constitutional Court: What Employers Must Do Now

Parental Leave Rewritten by the Constitutional Court: What Employers Must Do Now

by Lezaan van Jaarsveld | 3 Oct, 2025 | Employment Law, Family Law, Insights

By Ali Sonday | Senior Associate and Paula Phukuje | Associate The Constitutional Court has confirmed that South Africa’s parental-leave regime in the BCEA unfairly discriminated between different kinds of parents and has ordered a temporary “reading-in” that changes...

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