The mining industry has welcomed the South African High Court ruling in favour of the 'once empowered, always empowered' principle, an issue troubling a number of economic sectors. | 5yrs

The firm has taken a small team from Hogan Lovells to shore up its South African insurance practice. | 5yrs

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is set to extend its Alternative Legal Services (ALT) business to Johannesburg, South Africa. | 6yrs

South Africa has informed the UN that it is cancelling its decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). | 6yrs

The firm is taking its first step into the African legal market. | 6yrs

The multinational megafirm has chosen Webber Wentzel corporate partner Johannes Gouws as the first managing partner of its new South Africa office. | 7yrs

Leaders at Bowman Gilfillan are reaping the rewards of coaching as the firm puts its top lawyers through the paces. | 7yrs

South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal has slammed the Pretoria government for unlawfully allowing Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir to exit the country while he was wanted by the International Criminal Court. | 7yrs

Clyde & Co has recruited ten lawyers, including five partners, to its Cape Town and Johannesburg offices, bringing its headcount of lawyers in the country to 30. | 7yrs

Herbert Smith Freehills is opening an office in Johannesburg which will be used as a base to reach both anglophone and francophones parts of the African continent. | 7yrs

South Africa could leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan's president. | 7yrs

A South African court has begun hearings to determine if gold miners suffering from lung diseases they claim to have contracted because of their job can proceed with a class action lawsuit against the industry. | 7yrs

Barry Roux has said that the former Paralympic athlete's ability to pay for another trial over the murder of his former girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp would be 'non-existent'. | 7yrs

The 200-lawyer practice Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr will no longer be in formal alliance with DLA Piper the end of this month because the Johannesburg-based firm has 'decided not to proceed to the next level of integration'. | 7yrs

South African law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has appointed a new head of cross-border M&A for African and Asia, with the aim to focus on growth cities and the increasing diversification of African economies. | 7yrs

South Africa's new drone rules, which take effect today, enshrine far heavier potential prison sentences than other countries that have similar rules. | 7yrs

Rules which come in on 1 July to permit drones will help to make Africa the world's biggest commercial operator and consumer 'within the next few years', according to Adam Rosman, founder of Aerial Monitoring Solutions. | 7yrs

South African judges and a group of litigation lawyers have been praised for trying to get Sudan's President Bashir to appear at the International Criminal Court - even though the state seems to have made it easy for him to get away. | 7yrs

Globalaw, the global network of 115 practices, has signed up three new members in Africa bringing its African contingency up to ten. | 8yrs