Opening of new SCA court:

why it’s not ok that the media was barred AN historic event: the first sitting in the Supreme Court of Appeal’s brand new main court attended by the lords and ladies of the law not to mention South Africa’s leading …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...

Here’s something we could do …

RAPISTS acquitted because of some technical glitsch in court. Sexual predators who will spend far less time than they should in jail because the judge or magistrate felt an incomprehensible sympathy with the perpetrator. We hear about cases like this …Share...

Court messes up so rapist’s sentence halved

I’VE just read a rape appeal judgment that has left me fuming. It’s yet another case in which the rapist got off with less than he deserves because of a technical hitch or the misplaced sympathy of a judicial officer. …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...

Blue cranes at Genadendal

This group of four blue cranes against the mountains caught my eye. I could have watched them the whole day. …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new...

Dam Dies II

A desert where a dam used to be ….   Early Sunday morning. The tractor arrives where the dam used to be bringing driver Geelbooi Maseu and his friend Petrus Zenzile who works on a sewerage clearing team during the …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...