MOVE over Judge President John Hlophe; you’ve met your match. You probably thought there could be nothing like Hlophe again in your lifetime: a senior judge under investigation, impeachment a possibility, a series of distasteful court cases, the judge sounding...
WHILE South Africans obsess over the Oscar Pistorius trial, a completely different kind of court case is riveting the politically savvy in neighbouring Swaziland and Lesotho. Their leading judge – Michael Ramodibedi is president of the appeal court in Lesotho...
No-one could believe Monday’s news: police had found Ounooi Badenhorst, 77, murdered in her home in Smithfield. She had been a strong community leader who had headed the local residents’ association and she was much respected in the whole community.…Share...
THE name of the case whetted my appetite: ‘Tasty Treats’. And judgment in this matter had been given by a relatively new judge of the Swaziland Supreme Court, Esther Ota. A good chance of finding some delicious morsel of jurisprudence …Share this:Click to share...
WE had no warning when the locusts came: just a dark dust cloud that turned out not to be dust, and a rustling noise that grew louder and louder. They covered everything, the street and my garden, within seconds. The …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens...
