Without the support of the community and friends, it is not possible for the Ntaba ka Ndoda Heritage Festival to exist and host its annual event. We appeal to individuals, organisations, foundations, companies and others to consider providing financial and non-financial support as we complete our preparations for the 2010 Festival. The Ntaba ka Ndoda Heritage Festival is an initiative of the people of the Debe, Ngqumeya and Rabula villages to mark and celebrate the natural, political and cultural heritage that is symbolised by the mountain of Ntaba ka Ndoda. This is done through an annual festival that is held during the Heritage Day weekend every year (2010: 24-26 September).  

The community has been able to mobilise volunteers, local donations and local material to prepare for this Festival. Many community volunteers have contributed their time, their cellphone airtime, their cars and petrol and other contributions to make things possible. But our resources are still not enough for us to meet all our costs on our own.  

For the 2010 Festival, we appeal for and request the following material:
·     5 balls each for rugby, and soccer;
·     Cups and medals for winners and runners-up for soccer, netball and rugby tournaments;
·     Certificates of participation for choirs, cultural groups, and other participants;
·     Tent;
·     A petrol generator, a projector and wall screen to show films in local schools without electricity and audio-visual equipment;
·     Loud-hailer;
·     Boards and pieces for darts, chess, morabaraba, scrabble, and other indoor board games; and
·     A volunteer photographer and/or audio-visual recorder.

In addition to the above non-financial needs, our budget for the 2010 Festival also includes transport and airtime costs. It comes to a total of R22,000 (twenty two thousand rands). With your support we can meet this budget as well as the non-financial targets we have set ourselves.

If you are able to make a financial donation, please make a deposit into our bank account as follows:
·     Bank – ABSA
·     Branch – King William’s Town
·     Branch code – 632005
·     Account name – Ntaba ka Ndoda Heritage Festival     
·     Account number – 925 024 5926
·     Type of account – Club Savings Account

If you are considering a non-financial contribution, please contact:
·     Mr. Vizinto Mgunyasi – Festival Committee Chairperson, Cell – 076 745 2631
·     Ms. Thobeka Finca – Festival Coordinator, Cell – 083 595 0732
 
We also use this opportunity to thank our core of ongoing friends and supporters whose contribution over the past years have helped the Festival survive and grow.

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has compiled a short list of candidates to be interviewed at its sitting to be held in Cape Town on 04-15 October 2010 as follows:

1. Supreme Court of Appeal (Three vacancies)
Judge S Ebrahim
Judge B M Griesel
Judge S A Majiedt
Judge W L Seriti
Judge L Theron
Judge M J D Wallis
Judge R M M Zondo

2. Competition Appeal Court (Two vacancies)
Judge N C Dambuza

3. Eastern Cape High Court, Bhisho (One vacancy)
Adv R M Dilizo
Adv B Hartle
Mr L D Kemp
Ms N G Mjali
Adv M I Mkhize
Adv S D Ndengezi
Adv N G Ndzondo

4. Eastern Cape High Court, Mthatha (One Vacancy)
Adv R M Dilizo
Ms N G Mjali
Adv M I Mkhize
Adv S D Ndengezi

5. Electoral Court (Two vacancies)
No candidate was shortlisted.

6. KwaZulu-Natal High Court (Deputy Judge President) (One Vacancy)
Judge S R Balton
Judge C N Patel

7. KwaZulu-Natal High Court (Two vacancies)
Ms W Hughes-Madondo
Adv M I Mkhize
Adv A E Motala SC
Adv J A Ploos Van Amstel SC
Ms N H Radebe
Adv R Seegobin SC

8. Labour Appeal Court (Three vacancies)
Judge R D Hendricks
Judge A A Landman
Judge D Pillay

9. Labour Court (One vacancy)
No candidate was shortlisted

10. Limpopo High Court, Thohoyandou (Formerly Venda High Court) (One vacancy)
Adv M I Mkhize
Adv M J Mushasha

11. North and South Gauteng High Courts (Six vacancies)
Adv A J Bam SC
Adv H J De Vos SC
Adv J J Goodey SC
Mr M H E Ishmail
Adv F Kathree- Setiloane
Mr N J Kollapen
Adv J W Louw SC
Adv M I Mkhize
Mr R E Monama
Adv S P Mothle SC
Adv W H G Van Der Linde SC
Adv W L Wepener SC

12. North West High Court (One vacancy)
Adv N Gutta
Mr D I Matlapeng
Adv M I Mkhize

13. Western Cape High Court (Three Vacancies)
Ms P J Ngewu
Adv M I Mkhize
Adv B K Pincus SC
Dr M I Samela

The shortlisted candidates will be notified of the date, time and venue of the interviews in due course.

Yours Sincerely,

Sello Chiloane
Secretariat: Judicial Service Commission
Tel: (011) 359 7537/ 7570
Email: Chiloane@concourt.org.za
Fax2Email: 086 649 0944

The following activities have been identified for the Access to Justice week:

a) Rendering of practical court assistance (20 and 21 September 2010);b) Educational seminar workshops (22 and 23 September 2010); andc) Offering of Legal Advice for the members of the public at Advice offices which will take place across the Western Cape region on 24 and 25 September 2010.

With regard to the first activity, the following courts have been identified:

Civil section- Cape Town Court;Family Law section- Maynard Plaza- Wynberg;Family Law section Bhorat Centre-Athlone;Family Law section- Philippi Magistrate’s office;Family Law section- Mitchell’s Plain Magistrate’s Office;Family Law section-Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s office;Family Law section- Worcester Magistrate’s office;Family Law section- Atlantis Magistrate’s office;Family Law section- George Magistrate’s office (targeting community of Thembalethu); andFamily Law section- Paarl Magistrate’s office (targeting community of Mbekweni).

If you wish to participate in the above activities (by offering legal assistance, advice or training), please contact Carnietta Davidson and/or Matilda Smith (Nadel Western Cape Exec members) who are co-ordinating the activities on behalf of Nadel.  Their contact details:

Carnietta Davidson: Email: carnietta@cybersmart.co.za; carnietta@live.co.za / Ph: 021 6805338.

Matilda Smith: Email: Matilda.Smith@uct.ac.za / Ph: 021 6504023.

Please copy me in your emails to Carnietta and/or Matilda.

Warm regards,

Waheeda

“Wathint’ Abafazi Wathint’ Imbokodo!

You strike a woman, you strike a rock!”

• The Protection of Information Bill allows every organ of state – from government departments and parastatals to the smallest municipality – to throw a blanket of secrecy over its documents. If the law is passed whistle blowers leaking, and journalists reporting, on these documents can face up to 25 years in jail;
• The ICASA Amendment Bill gives the Minster of Communications powers to determine the functions of individual ICASA councilors and to conduct performance appraisals of councilors;
• The Public Service Broadcasting Bill narrows the social mandate of community and public broadcasters to serve the “developmental goals of the Republic” and extends the powers of the Minister of Communications over the SABC and municipal officials over community radio;
• The proposed Media Appeals Tribunal will introduce formal censorship to print media limiting the role of the media in ensuring transparent and accountable government. 

1. Implement the Polokwane resolutions calling for greater funding for the SABC and the Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) to ensure that public and community media can serve the public interest free of commercial pressures. This should include a Media Diversity Tax on commercial media;
2. Remove the censorious Protection of Information Bill from Parliament before it is challenged in the Constitutional Court. 
3. Redraft the ICASA Amendment and the Public Service Broadcasting Bill ensuring the Minister of Communications and municipalities to not exercise undue control over community and public broadcasting;
4. Abandon the proposed legislated Media Appeals Tribunal (MAT) and work with the commercial media to ensure that the Press Ombudsman and BCCSA have the necessary resources and credibility to perform their prescribed role with speed and greater balance. They should also have powers to fine media houses they find have intentionally violate their Codes of Ethics;
5. Pursue anti-trust legislation to break up the monopoly ownership of commercial media;
6. Take disciplinary action against members and officials accused of bribing or threatening journalists.

Produced by Luna films, created by Ruth B. Cowan, directed by Jane Thandi Lipman and edited by Dara Kell

Music by Philip Miller

The context of the film is South Africa’s transformation from apartheid to a human rights-based constitutional democracy. Courting Justice features seven of South Africa’s women judges who, as judges, are charged with advancing that transformation.

They tell “their stories,” speaking to us in their court rooms, chambers, homes and the communities in which they lived during apartheid.

In telling their stories they convey their deep commitment to creating a human rights jurisprudence and bring attention to the importance of the judiciary’s engagement in realizing the constitution’s promises. They also provide insight into the judiciary’s own transformation — a necessary condition for the judiciary’s legitimacy and effectiveness.
This web site will provide information and commentary about the

- Drive to create Courting Justice

- Film production process

- Highlights of festivals, screenings and testimonials

- Film’s historical context

- Qualifications and process for judicial appointments in South Africa

- Judicial system during apartheid and under the New Democracy

- Transformation of the judiciary by race and gender

- Biographies of the seven featured judges

- Differences women have made on the bench

- Post-apartheid constitutional and human rights developments

Highlights of Testimonials, Festivals and Screenings

Linda Greenhouse,Yale Law School and former New York Times Supreme Court reporter “Courting Justice” documents in a most gripping way the role that women in the judiciary are playing in building the new South Africa. I found these women’s stories touching and inspiring.

Charles J, Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Founding and Executive Director, The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice The film stands as a vivid testament to the central role of diversity in a healthy democracy.  By documenting as it does the role of women in the forefront of the administration of justice at every level of the South African society, it is also a testament to South Africa’s determination to realize the promise of its remarkable constitution.  All of this is conveyed in the most compelling terms.  This film will be… particularly useful in generating discussion of the complex relationship between race and gender in a judicial context as well a social movement context.

Carolyn Turner, Senior TV Producer, Voice of America This is an inspirational film, especially for young people with aspirations.  It is a revelation to go behind the scenes for intimate glimpses of women judges to see how meticulous they are in weighing the social and individual consequences of their judgments and interpretations of the law.  The score by Philip Miller  transports you to the time and place and you can feel the transformation this culture has witnessed.   The spontaneous singing choir in the Court at the Political Prisoners Commemoration captures that unmistakable South African sound that reflects the pure joy of freedom.  The score should be made available as a separate CD.

Roberta I. Shaffer, the Law Librarian of Congress (Library of Congress) “Courting Justice” tells many stories–the struggle of a nation to build a credible judiciary; the journey of a small group of women judges who agree to serve as role models in the courtroom, classroom and at home for a new generation; and the universal lesson that passion and perseverance can overcome almost all challenges. Through the camera’s eye and with a compelling musical score, we are captivated as women from a wide variety of starting points don judicial robes and assume a shared “bench” to transform a nation, in this case South Africa, through the rule of law.

click here for more

Festivals and Screenings

HBO COMPETITION FINALIST in Upcoming Festival – August 2010:
Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival

Courting Justice has been shown at The United Nations, Embassies and Consulates, U.S. Department of State, South Africa Parliament, Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Law and Society Association.

• Voice of America.TV
• SABC (South Africa Broadcasting Corporation)
• Durban International Film Festival, Audience Award
• UNIFEM Women’s Int’l Film Festival
• International de Films de Femmes de Creteil (Paris)
• Sichuan TV Festival, China
• Parliament Film Festival, South Africa
• Addis International Film Festival, Africa
• Encounters: South African International Documentary Festival

• Assoc. of the Bar of the City of New York
• Black Lawyers Association
• Cornell University—School of Labor & Industrial Relations and School of Law
• Harvard Law School—Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
• International Association of Women Judges
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Centennial Meeting
• National Association of Women Judges
• Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
• Southern Coalition for Social Justice
• Union Baptist Church, Durham, N.C
• U.S. Committee for UNIFEM
• Yale Law School
• YWCA & YMCA, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Courting Justice can be purchased or rented by contacting Women Make Movies – (US & Canada)
email: Abby Peck apeck@wmm.com
US telephone 1 212 925 0606 ext 360

outside US, contact Fireworx Media -
email: Dan Jawtiz dan@fireworxmedia.co.za
SA telephone +27 11 403 4949, Mobile +27 82 330 8736

Think of the battle against HIV/AIDS as a deciding football match played between people living with HIV and the HIV virus itself…

The scores are tied in a draw at 1 all. HIV can still win the match if the funding for life saving ARV’s, which will help people to stay well enough to play the second half of the game of life, is stopped. MSF provides antiretroviral treatment to over 140,000 people in 30 countries around the world and in the last 18 months we have observed international donors after years of commitment now capping, reducing or withdrawing their funding for antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Our programmes are having to cut back on the number of people they put on ARV’s . This may mean that millions of people are at risk of dying unnecessarily.

Visit our new blog Extra-Time which presents an alternative view on World Cup from the perspective of HIV/Aids people and MSF field workers.

The MSF coach is working on the match tactics, so remember to keep an eye out for the next email on 29 June which will reveal the strategy for this deciding game!

Best regards,

Liz Thompson General Director MSF South Africa

Sandra Liebenberg

Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, this scholarly work provides an in-depth and thorough analysis of the socio-economic rights jurisprudence of the newly democratic South Africa.

The book explores how the judicial interpretation and enforcement of socio-economic rights can be more responsive to the conditions of systemic poverty and inequality characterising South African society. Based on meticulous research, the work marries legal analysis with perspectives from political philosophy and democratic theory. Cautioning against a traditional, formalistic conception of rights and the separation of powers doctrine, the author develops a nuanced conception of substantive reasonableness review in the context of socio-economic rights. She further argues for a reconstruction of private law doctrines in the light of the normative purposes and values promoted by socio-economic rights.

Socio-Economic Rights – Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution is up to date, including detailed evaluation and critique of the most recent socio-economic rights judgments. It is set to have an impact on debates about courts and socio-economic rights not only in South Africa, but everywhere else where its topic has attracted interest.

AVAILABLE APRIL 2010

Approx. 565 pages ISBN 978-0-7021-8480-2 R575.00 (incl. VAT)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Professor Sandra Liebenberg holds the HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Stellenbosch. An internationally recognised scholar, she has published widely in the field of socio-economic rights. Liebenberg served as a member of the Technical Committee to the Constitutional Assembly’s ‘Theme Committee’ on Fundamental Rights and founded the Socio-Economic Rights Project at the University of the Western Cape. As part of her ongoing research and advocacy work, the author has been involved in preparing heads of argument and amicus curiae submissions in several of the groundbreaking socio-economic rights cases in South Africa.

REVIEWS: ‘Socio-Economic Rights – Adjudication under a Transformative Constitution is a comprehensive examination of South Africa’s transformative constitutionalism. This book establishes South African socio-economic rights jurisprudence as an academic discipline. [... It] should be read and studied by all who share the hope that legal practices can contribute to social transformation and social justice.’

Karl Klare George J and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor, School of Law, North Eastern University (Boston) & Lucy Williams, Professor of Law, School of Law, North Eastern University (Boston)

‘A scholarly work of major importance, that is sure to play a leading role not only in the burgeoning field of academic endeavour on this topic internationally, but also as reference work of real usefulness for practitioners engaged in using law to combat impoverishment and social exclusion.’

Danie Brand – Senior Lecturer, Department of Public Law, University of Pretoria

‘The book offers a detailed and nuanced explanation of the way in which the courts have interpreted and developed socio-economic rights. A comprehensive description is coupled with an analysis which is both incisive and sensitive to the complex realities of South Africa. An indispensable resource for anyone interested in socio-economic rights in South Africa or elsewhere in the world.’

Sandra Fredman FBA – Professor of Law, Exeter College, Oxford University

TO ORDER THIS BOOK GO TO THE JUTA PAGE HERE.

CONTENTS:

␣␣ Foreword by Karl Klare and Lucy Williams ␣␣ The Struggle for Recognition: Including Socio-Economic rights in the Constitution ␣␣ A Transformative Jurisprudence on Socio-Economic Rights ␣␣ Socio-Economic Rights in the Context of the Bill of Rights ␣␣ Reconceiving Reasonableness Review ␣␣ Children, Education, Persons Deprived of Liberty ␣␣ A New Paradigm for Evictions Law ␣␣ Socio-Economic Rights in Private Law ␣␣ Responsive Remedies ␣␣ Appendix 1: Chapter 2 of the 1996 Constitution ␣␣ Table of Cases, Table of Legislation and Subject Index

PROPOSITION SPEAKER ONE: EUSEBIUS MCKAISER SPEAKER TWO: AUBREY MATSHIQI

OPPOSITION SPEAKER ONE: NICK FERREIRA SPEAKER TWO: MAZIBUKO JARA

- Eusebius McKaiser is a political commentator, columnist & associate at the Centre for the Study of Democracy; studied and taught philosophy & formerly ranked one of the top 20 debaters in the world.

- Nick Ferreira is an overqualified lawyer: Oxford PHD in philosophy (Rhodes scholar) and Unisa LLB; currently a law clerk to Justice Edwin Cameron & formerly a World Debate Championship semi- finalist.

- Aubrey Matshiqi is a senior researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies and a weekly columnist for Business Day; one of the top political analysts and media commentators in SA today.

- Mazibuko Jara is Senior Researcher: Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town and a PhD Candidate: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape

THE DEBATE: The majority of South Africans are morally conservative. Any poll on issues such as abortion, the death penalty, gay rights or spanking kids shows this to be the case. And yet the constitution and constitutional court judgments are very liberal. On moral and social issues, there is therefore a giant gap between the values enshrined in the constitution and what most of us think, feel and believe. In this debate we ask whether or not the constitution adequately reflects the moral views of the majority. Does it? Do come along, be entertained and engage!

WHEN? 31st MAY 2010

TIME? 530pm for 6pm

WHERE? GIBS BUSINESS SCHOOL, MELVILLE RD, ILLOVO, JHB

MODERATOR: Joe Roussous (Wits Debate Union)

RSVP: KATIE MCNALLY ( mcnallyk@gibs.co.za )

Drinks and snacks served afterwards