NO-ONE at the Platteland Preview festival in Smithfield this year will easily forget the opening night. Church bells ringing across the veld, marimba players regaling us with great jazz outside a fabulous venue, new and old friends, good food and …Share...
AT least some of the novels I haven’t yet written are set in the border areas between the Free State and Lesotho. One shouldn’t give away too much of a pending plot, but there’s plenty of scope round here for …Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
ALL roads lead to the Eastern Cape right now, and to celebrations of the National Arts Festival’s 40th anniversary. It’s even the setting for this week’s legal decision, with the drama’s central moment played out against the backdrop of …Share this:Click to...
WHEN Smithfield’s new arts festival, the Platteland Preview, ran into trouble last year, someone asked if I’d been in touch with Ismail Mahomed. As a law writer, I could only assume she meant the late Chief Justice and I wondered …Share this:Click to share on...
NATIONAL child protection week and I’m pointing fingers. Everywhere government exhorts: protect vulnerable children. So where were the state’s justice officials when Annah Ouma Mthimunye tried to get the maintenance she was owed so she could care for and protect...
Here is the full text of the speech by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng, given at the University of Stellenbosch conference on law and religion in Africa, 27 May 2014: Mogoeng CJ Law and Religion in Africa…Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new...
