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As the great poet Drake once said: “started from the bottom, now we’re here!” Friends, foes, countryfolk, I’d like to introduce you to my new website…
Jul 6, 2022 • 
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To BEE or not to BEE?
Are South African courts anti-transformation?
Apr 20, 2022 • 
Dan Mafora
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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…
Feb 9, 2022 • 
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Who appoints the Chief Justice?
Let's clear things up
Feb 2, 2022 • 
Dan Mafora
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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…
Dec 15, 2021 • 
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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…
Nov 1, 2021 • 
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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…
Jul 27, 2021 • 
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The Metaphysic of Oudekraal
Why Justice Jafta is right
Jun 14, 2021 • 
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