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 …Share this:Click to...
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...
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 …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
Zambia’s highest court has delivered a new decision that ends more than four decades during which government occupied prime private land, land that was never paid for and that the state appeared to think it could hold and use, indefinitely. …Share this:Click to...
Some days I feel like a traitor. After decades of writing about law and legal developments with an almost obsessive determination to find and stick to verifiable facts, I’ve started to write fiction. Historical fiction. The book of short stories …Share...
Uganda’s constitutional court has decided that the country’s divorce laws, requiring strict proof of dastardly sexual behaviour by one of the parties before a judicial divorce will be granted, are quite compatible with the constitution. And, moreover, that the...
