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...
IF vigilantes, working with the tacit agreement of the police, beat up witnesses and pay them to give false evidence, what hope do courts have of establishing the truth? This woeful state of affairs is not the nightmare child of …Share this:Click to share on...
2014 Platteland Preview Programme (For more information, images etc go to the home of the Platteland Preview festival: www.smithfield.co.za) Friday 27 June * 4 – 5pm NGK Church Hall: Official opening of In Transit : A Bloemfontein group exhibition sponsored...
YOU could read it as just another story of police incompetence. But it’s also about how one couple’s acrimonious divorce has financial implications for every single South African. It’s the case of ‘M’ against the Minister of Police, a matter …Share this:Click...
