Sabinet LEGAL resources

Sabinet's Discover platform provides various types of online information resources:

https://discover.sabinet.co.za/


The various products of Sabinet Discover are listed in its Product picklist (click on its "Product" box to get the scroll-down list) :

Our library is mainly subscribed to the Legal products (the first category in the picklist)


NOTE:

You may notice that "Sabinet African Journals" also appear in this list. However, if you want to access the journals you must please go to the specific African Journals website

(We access the journals with a different login -- signing in to Sabinet Discover does not on its own give our library access to the journals.)

To access these Legal products at the Sabinet Discover website, you must first sign in.

You do this by clicking on "Sign in":



Next, you must fill in the Username and Password, and click on "Sign into Account".

(NOTE: Library members get these sign-in details at http://prolib.fs.gov.za/prolib/sabinet_login.html )


If you have signed in correctly, the top part of your screen will display as follows:


NOTE:

It may be confusing to see that there still appears a "Sign in" button. This is for a different type of "sign in", namely for users who want to sign in to their "myDiscover" profile (which is optional).


Legal products that are available:

Library members can access the following Legal resources at Sabinet Discover:


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Government Gazettes

(Up-to-date board notices, legislation, regulations, proclamations, and legal notices. Also deceased estates, liquor notices, liquidations and road carrier permits.)

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Netlaw (National Legislation)

(Timely and precise updates on new legislation or amendments to existing acts in consolidated full text.)

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Provincial Gazettes

(Collection of all nine provinces gazetted information dating back to 1995 - updated daily as new gazettes are published.)

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Municipal By‑laws

(Complete full text and immediate access to all by-laws from 1995 to present day. Easily accessible and searchable with an index of all existing South African municipalities – metropolitan, district and local.)

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Provincial Legislation

(A complete retrospective view of provincial legislation: Acts, Regulations and Rules.)

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Sabinet Bargaining Council Agreements

(The only platform providing all of the up-to-date bargaining council agreements for all registered bargaining councils as published in the Gazette.

Get access to the A–Z lists of bargaining councils, statutory councils, trade unions, Trade Union Federation and employer’s organisations..)

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Sabinet Labour Judgements

(With Sabinet Labour, you are always up to date with the latest and complete CCMA and Bargaining Council Awards and judgments, legislation and other relevant information. Stay abreast of current changes at a glance with the weekly newsletter – straight from the courts to your inbox.)

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CCMA Bargaining Council Awards

(Access to the latest and CCMA and Bargaining Council Awards from 1994 to 2021.)

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See also:

This is a useful supplement to the Legal resources of Sabinet Discover.

For example you can visit its Public Service section to get an update on legal developments in that area:

https://legal.sabinet.co.za/subject_group/public-service/

(see their "Browse by Subject" picklist for other sectors).

Help available: Check out the Help / Support section at the top of the Sabinet Discover web page

(e.g. it has various User Guides that you can download).