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Zuma’s Great Delusion
Why Zuma’s Hail Mary pass is a miss
Jan 9
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October 2023
South African law: are there thugs in robes?
Justice Johann Kriegler reviews Capture in the Court
Oct 30, 2023
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September 2023
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Coming 29 September 2023
Sep 15, 2023
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July 2022
On matters constitutional
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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April 2022
To BEE or not to BEE?
Are South African courts anti-transformation?
Apr 20, 2022
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February 2022
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
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December 2021
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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November 2021
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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July 2021
“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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June 2021
The Metaphysic of Oudekraal
Why Justice Jafta is right
Jun 14, 2021
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May 2021
Who's afraid of first principles?
When the first lockdown regulations under the Disaster Management Act were gazetted, I was surprised that, in the flurry of commentary that followed, no…
May 21, 2021
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