When we think of disciplinary hearings, we tend to picture the workplace: an employer, an employee and a body of law developed to hold the two in a fair process. Yet the demands of fairness are not confined to the conditions of employment. In Divine Life Society of South Africa and Others v Avinash Parshotam (107/2025) [2026] ZASCA 89 (24 June 2026), the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) confirmed that the principles of natural justice may govern the disciplinary proceedings of a voluntary association even where no employment relationship exists.
The judgment is significant because the relationship it examines is not one of employment. The appellant organisation is a voluntary religious association, and the respondent member a devotee who had renounced worldly life to live within its community. The court’s reasoning nonetheless tracks the familiar architecture of disciplinary fairness, holding that a private body’s power to expel a member is reviewable where it fails to accord with fundamental principles...
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