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Are South African courts anti-transformation?
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Dan Mafora
A requiem for the Judicial Service Commission
In a fatally flawed process, the commissioners tasked with advising the president as he chooses a new chief justice instead ensured he could not appoint…
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Who appoints the Chief Justice?
Let's clear things up
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The Impossibility of the Acting Chief Justice
Way back when, in one of the Public Protector's crusades against public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan, she had ordered President to discipline…
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The Lord's Chief Justice
Mogoeng Mogoeng, South Africa’s chief justice from 2011 to 2021, is midwifing the conservative turn in South Africa’s public life. From retirement, he…
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“My Sister is mistaken” and other responses to unreasonable dissent
IN WHAT may prove to be a first in our legal history, the Constitutional Court on 12 July 2021 heard an application for the rescission of an earlier…
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The Metaphysic of Oudekraal
Why Justice Jafta is right
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