WORKERS’ Day, May 1, 2017 and unknown to virtually any South African enjoying the public holiday, something extraordinary was unfolding in Port Elizabeth. Something with far-reaching implications for international human rights and for international trade, a novel...
WHAT might a “captured” South African judiciary and judicial appointment system look like? While chilling stories from leaked emails suggest South Africa is no longer being run by its own president, that right having been bought by the wealthy Gupta …Share...
Controversial Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe is back in the spotlight following his contested handling of a High Court matter involving allegations of a multi-million rand fraud. One side in the dispute claimed they had a ‘reasonable apprehension’ that...
NEXT time I read of a woman murdered by a relative, close friend or partner, I won’t Tweet my outrage or FB friends moaning about the “scourge” of femicide. Instead, I will think carefully about whether I might have looked …Share this:Click to share on Twitter...
IT’S New Year resolution season and if lawyers and judges are, like the rest of us, contemplating what improvements to make in 2017, I have a suggestion. Why doesn’t the South African legal community, from judges down, band together to …Share this:Click to...
WHEN Ramatharee Pather and her lawyers launched a claim against Gauteng’s MEC for health, Qedani Mahlangu, the last thing they would have expected was an answer from the state re-writing legal history. Pather’s action relates to what she alleges was …Share...
