PROSECUTOR Jerry Noge smiles from the pages of Khasho, journal of South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority. It’s September 2012 and he has reason to be pleased: he has just won a convincing victory in a terrible rape case. He tells …Share this:Click to...
LESOTHO’S dogged determination to root out corruption has impressed many people over the years. It was shown most spectacularly a decade ago with a series of successful bribery charges against high-profile international construction companies working on the gigantic...
THE bear is depressed. He spends his day lying on the ground of his cage. He is nine years old and could easily live to over 50. His mother a distant memory, he has never seen another bear. This is …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
HOW should a judge respond when discriminatory aspects of customary law conflict with the constitution? Earlier this month Judge Oagile Dingake of the high court in Gaberone, Botswana, declared his country’s adoption laws unconstitutional for just this reason, in a...
IT could be one of the smallest damages awards made by a high court in recent times, but the R775 plus interest ordered by Judge Dhaya Pillay represents an enormous victory for street traders everywhere in South Africa. Pillay, sitting …Share this:Click to...
