Critical shortage of Namibian judges ‘inhuman’
The alarming shortage of serving judges in Namibia is emerging as a national crisis. Several events illustrate the scale of the problem. First, a High Court judge made unprecedented remarks on the issue in court. Two days later, the Chief Justice included reference to...
Will the real winner in this high-profile Zim lease dispute please stand up?
Details of the huge wealth accumulated by former Zimbabwean Cabinet Minister Ignatius Chombo, now public knowledge because of a bitterly contested divorce settlement, have transfixed many people in that country. Now there's been another, unusual, new judgment dealing...
Terrible fires today; remembering terrible punishment for arsonists 300 years ago
Terrible fires have burnt the Overberg this month. This is the part of the Western Cape where I live and while we've been seeing close up what the fires mean, the resulting dense smoke plumes could even be seen in satellite pictures, drifting 300 km north of the...