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• 2024

  • October

    • Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities

  • September

    • Constitutional Court woes must be top of Chief Justice Mandisa Maya’s agenda

  • August

    • Concerted effort needed from legal profession to fix ‘incompetent’ Legal Practice Council

  • July

    • Sharp rise in number of people shot dead by KZN cops is cause for serious concern
    • Fix the JSC rather than banning John Hlophe from serving on it

  • June

    • Reasons why the GNU might end up as an exhibit in Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships
    • Zuma’s MK party may be litigiously backing itself into corner with doomed urgent application
    • No, a political party cannot sabotage the election of the President by refusing to participate in the election of the President by the National Assembly

  • May

    • The IEC is not perfect, but beware of bad faith attacks aimed at discrediting the election
    • Why the ConCourt is not the appropriate body to resolve policy disagreements about the NHI Act
    • Zuma MK party representation may be critical for votes but push for ConCourt judges’ recusal probably a dead end

  • April

    • The slippery path to a stable coalition government
    • Be wary of political parties that undermine our democracy with unsubstantiated attacks on the IEC

  • March

    • Retaining Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as Speaker is not a legal matter, but a political choice
    • The case for an academic boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza onslaught

  • February

    • All-white, all-male legal teams are wrong on so many levels
    • Why ending the ANC's cadre deployment policy may do little to end corruption and nepotism

  • January

    • Apartheid of the soul: On Wilgenhof abuses and those who justify or defend them
    • On David Teeger, Cricket SA and the wrongheaded freedom of speech arguments made in his defence

• 2023

  • November

    • A hustle here and a hustle there — how things work (maybe) in Cuba
    • Rugby, Rassie, the Springboks, my father and me – a South African parable

  • October

    • Julius Malema has opened himself to criminal charges of ‘scandalising the court’
    • Zuma’s bid to set aside Raymond Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice is a legal nonsense

  • September

    • On tardiness and torpidity: It’s time the Legal Practice Council stepped up to do its duty
    • The lessons learnt from the process to remove Busisiwe Mkhwebane from office
    • New intelligence bill is anti-democratic, and a unique mix of malice and stupidity
    • Let’s pray that voting in SA’s 2024 elections doesn’t feel like the triumph of hope over experience

  • August

    • Remitting Zuma’s jail sentence as part of a general remission was the least worst option by far
    • National dialogue on coalition governments: why the proposed regulations may not fix the problem

  • July

    • Western Cape devolution Bill: a politically inspired statement of intent that may not change much
    • Should a way be found to spare Jacob Zuma from jail time? It’s a tough call
    • Digging into acting Public Protector’s perplexing lack of curiosity about pivotal Phala Phala facts

  • June

    • The Motata ruling – Structural and human problems behind failure of JSC to protect integrity of judicial system
    • Searing Labour Court judgment’s salutary lesson for lawyers bringing hopeless Zuma cases to court
    • On the curious history of litigating for access to Zuma’s tax records

  • May

    • Draft employment equity regulations an incoherent mess, but criticism largely based on false claims
    • On the quiet radicalism of the Namibian same sex marriage judgment
    • Eskom ruling is magical thinking – courts cannot fix intractable governance problems
    • Coalition chaos: Why we need to develop political conventions rooted in respect for voters to protect us from selfish politicians

  • April

    • Jabs in the dark – why this anti-vax group’s case is a legal non-starter
    • Mkhwebane’s legal costs have spiralled out of control, but she is still entitled to a defence

  • March

    • ANC leadership’s ‘outrage’ over Thabo Bester escape seems a tad manufactured
    • Why the Labour Court was wrong to accept that there was no race-based wage discrimination at Makro
    • Dali Mpofu’s defence of Busisiwe Mkhwebane skating on very thin ethical and legal ice

  • February

    • What the State Capture Commission report tells us about the ANC's response to the De Ruyter interview
    • Lawyer held in contempt of court: When legal practitioners behave badly, they undermine the legitimacy and effectiveness of the profession
    • The DA’s flip-flopping on Eskom State of Disaster is embarrassing, and their new plan is legally fraught
    • The mooted National State of Disaster – ANC desperation or cynical public relations exercise?

  • January

    • ANC cadre deployment will be stopped at the ballot box, not via the courts
    • Zuma’s private prosecution of Ramaphosa raises red flags about abuse of judicial process

• 2022

  • December

    • Flawed report gives ANC MPs an alibi to vote against impeachment. But there are other ways to hold Ramaphosa accountable
    • Ramaphosa should jump at the chance to clear his name before an impeachment inquiry — if he has nothing to hide

  • November

    • Jacob Zuma may have to serve at least another two months behind bars before being considered for parole
    • Slapp suit judgment paves way to shutting the door on Stalingrad tactics
    • Dali Mpofu’s forays into the swamps of invective play fast and loose with legal ethics

  • October

    • On the recent Con Court eviction judgment: knowing the price of everything, and the value of nothing
    • Small parties, big influence: What can be done about unstable coalition governments?

  • September

    • Push for devolution of Western Cape policing powers may have pragmatic footing but may run into legal trouble
    • Political campaign donations – merely changing the ethics code to force disclosure won’t cut it
    • Why the High Court was wrong to overturn Mkhwebane's suspension on the ground that the President was biased
    • It can be dangerous when national security is used as a cover to dodge accountability

  • August

    • AfriForum should consider introspection after losing ‘Kill the Boer’ hate speech case against EFF
    • Khayelitsha policing collapse the result of ‘catastrophic’ and ‘unconscionable’ political and judicial failure
    • Ramaphosa impeachment unlikely, but process may shine light into murky Phala Phala waters
    • ConCourt’s woeful ruling on foreign legal practitioners fails to consider vicious xenophobia scourge

  • June

    • On executive accountability and the direct election of the President
    • Ramaphosa and the foreign currency theft: on the legal issues and the Fargo problem

  • May

    • On Theuns du Toit, "spectacular racism", and slow violence
    • Mkhwebane's Stalingrad approach: We need to talk about integrity in the legal profession
    • ANC and Ramaphosa’s choice on State Capture report findings — self and party or the good of the country?

  • April

    • On Bullshit: Why I wrongly thought the Public Protector's complaint against justice Jafta was a hoax
    • ANC faces storm of power struggles if forced to form a coalition government

  • March

    • Why proposed amendments to SA’s electoral system favour the governing ANC
    • On being implicated in the state capture report, and the judicialisation of public morality

  • February

    • Why context matters: Constitutional Court leaves the hate speech threshold open to judges’ interpretation
    • The dog that didn't bark: what is missing from the "debate" on the appointment of a new Chief Justice
    • On the JSC Chief Justice interviews: expecting the worst, while hoping for the best

  • January

    • Why the CCMA upheld the dismissal of an employee who refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19
    • Lindiwe Sisulu: Why do cabinet ministers who claim to find the actions or policies of the government they serve in intolerable never resign?

• 2021

  • December

    • Why is Ramaphosa dragging his feet with Con Court appointments?
    • On rage, distrust and Covid-19 lockdowns: Why vaccine hesitancy is irrational but not incomprehensible

  • November

    • By becoming a "pastor-politician", Mogoeng cannot escape scrutiny in the name of freedom of religion
    • Prof Balthazar and the "RET Faction": On the wrong-headed criticism of the Zuma tax judgment
    • What is to be done about unstable and self-serving coalitions, and how the media could help to empower voters

  • October

    • A brief history of MR Jacob Zuma's attempts to prevent the public from hearing the State's evidence against him
    • It's a criminal offence for landlords and estate agents to discriminate against black applicants, and it is time to prosecute and punish them harshly
    • Can post-election coalition instability and chaos be fixed?
    • Court rules Unisa can’t abandon Afrikaans as medium of instruction, but what about true multilingualism?

  • September

    • On judicial decadence and the dissent in the Zuma rescission application
    • The scar of science I cherish: Why I support a Covid-19 vaccine requirement at UCT (Part I)
    • On the limitation of rights: Why I support a Covid-19 vaccine requirement at UCT (Part Two)
    • Why the Constitutional Court ruling on the local government election is bad news for the ANC
    • The ANC's failure to register some ward candidates may have a bigger impact on its electoral performance than might be assumed

  • August

    • Public Protector rescission application reflects contempt for the facts and the law and, perhaps, also for the Constitutional Court
    • Why the JSC should consider the broad political orientation of candidates, but is doing so badly
    • Instructing ANC MPs to elect the ethically compromised Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as parliamentary Speaker is a dangerous conflation of governing party and state
    • How the Qwelane judgment narrows the scope of prohibited hate speech, while rejecting the libertarian view of freedom of expression

  • July

    • Why all the legal options to postpone the local government elections are bad options
    • State of emergency - careful what you wish for
    • Jacob Zuma's contempt of court: an attempted appeal masquerading as a rescission application

  • June

    • On the magical thinking of the minority in the Zuma contempt of court judgement
    • Why it might be unwise to postpone local government elections
    • On the oddly dishonest criticism of proposed amendments to the Equality Act
    • Constitutional Court delivers powerful judgment on sexual harassment and systemic inequality
    • On "Twitter mobs" and "cancel culture": a (partial) defence of "Twitter democracy"

  • May

    • No good legal options: Zuma could be planning an all-out political attack on the judiciary
    • The Ace Magashule court challenge: Mostly legal nonsense (and some false statements), but one argument may worry the ANC
    • Electoral reform: Slim chance South African MPs would represent constituents before parties
    • Accountability of MPs: When constitutional obligations versus keeping your job dictates fate and future
    • LGBTQ attacks: time to reject the use of religion to justify homophobic and transphobic bigotry

  • April

    • Why is the JSC irrationally refusing to recommend the suspension of Judge President Hlophe?
    • Markus Jooste, Jacob Zuma and Gary Porritt: how access to vast sums of money benefit those implicated in corruption
    • Is it possible for the ANC to fix the way in which the party elects its leaders?

  • March

    • What will happen after the State Capture Commission report is released?
    • Why are ANC MPs not fighting to amend the unconstitutional Budget Bill?
    • On Zuma's curious legal strategy: will the Rampahosa government have the backbone to enforce the law?
    • On the inept and false statement issued by the Jacob Zuma Foundation

  • February

    • Why the court should overturn the sealing of the CR17 bank statements
    • Why Zuma's justification for disobeying a court order is legally absurd, and why the Constitutional Court must have the final say on the matter
    • Our government could – and should – take steps to compel vaccinations in South Africa for the greater good
    • Jacob Zuma and the State Capture Commission: We need to talk about his lawyers

  • January

    • Medical schemes racial discrimination report: what other types of systemic discrimination may be uncovered by similar investigations?
    • Trump's Twitter ban is justified, but Twitter's unregulated power to ban individuals should not be trusted

• 2020

  • December

    • On Covid-19 beach restrictions: bad policy is not necessarily unconstitutional
    • What motivated the Public Protector in her SARS investigation, and will she be prosecuted?
    • What the Coligny murder case might tell us about the the way apartheid logic structures relations in a small town

  • November

    • Ace Magashule and the limits of the ANC NEC "step aside" decision
    • Why the Zondo recusal application is weak on the facts and the law
    • Ace Magashule: What to look for when evaluating the strength of the state’s case
    • US Presidential election: The electoral college and South Africa's new electoral system

  • October

    • Will a recent SCA judgment help to fix the political dysfunction in Tshwane?
    • Why there is a real need to strengthen the independence of the NPA
    • Public Protector's "legal" arguments may not be aimed at winning court cases, but at promoting political talking points
    • Gauteng's anti-immigrant Bill and the problem of reinforcing societal prejudice

  • September

    • Zondo recusal application: more a political than a legal move
    • Toshan Panday and the many ways implicated people evade accountability
    • On attempts by Jacob Zuma to evade the Zondo Commission of Inquiry
    • Andile Lungisa is a convicted criminal - but his removal from council could become complicated

  • August

    • Bizarre judgment on the call to prayer is wrong in law and rewards religious prejudice
    • Herman Mashaba, the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime
    • Selling the lie of Cape independence
    • In the absence of disciplinary action against ANC members implicated in corruption, the party's anti-corruption rhetoric rings hollow

  • July

    • Zondo Commission and the NPA: a glimmer of hope, but it will not end corruption
    • Invoking free expression to avoid debate: the case of the former reality TV personality and David Icke
    • On the supersized level 3 lockdown regulations: will they pass constitutional muster?
    • In debate on Civil Union Act amendment, the line between homophobic prejudice and religious beliefs became blurred

  • June

    • Mogoeng and Israel: Judicial code of conduct warns judges against becoming “involved in any political controversy"
    • Why the court ordered that race and gender should be taken into account when allocating Covid-19 relief funds
    • Further thoughts on the disruption of the intergenerational transfers of wealth
    • Privilege and inheritance: Time to disrupt intergeneration transfers of wealth
    • Judgment invalidating lockdown regulations is flawed, but so is the government's "means justifies the end" defence

  • May

    • Are we fighting about who will get the best sun chairs on the deck of the Titanic while the iceberg is looming in the distance?
    • On the three different version provided by the presidency of the powers of the National Command Council
    • Collins Khosa case and the failure of leadership by the Chief of the SANDF and Defence Minister

  • April

    • Ministers need to provide rational, fact-based, and truthful justifications for lockdown regulations
    • Why the management of the lockdown threatens respect for the Rule of Law
    • Bheki Cele's skop skiet en donner approach encourages Police criminality, but will Parliament hold the Minister accountable?
    • Lawyers who disobeyed the lockdown regulations deprived of fees and referred to Legal Practice Council

  • March

    • Are some lockdown regulations invalid because they discriminate on the basis of race, or are not authorised by law?
    • Vague Covid-19 lockdown regulations may make enforcement and adherence more difficult
    • Steps to curb coronavirus spread: more legal questions answered
    • What measures can the government legally take to deal with the coronavirus crisis?
    • Why Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been a godsend to Cyril Ramaphosa and the CR17 campaign
    • What is to be done about EFF disruption and assault in the Eastern Cape legislature?

  • February

    • On the wisdom of interviewing Carl Niehaus and why this has nothing to do with free speech
    • If you think it is bad that the apartheid era Riotous Assembly Act is still on the statute books, wait till you hear about the Coloured Persons Education Act
    • Neither SONA nor any disruption will improve the quality of governance in South Africa
    • The case of Gary Porritt illustrates why sick notes may not be enough to get Jacob Zuma off the hook
    • Public Protector's legal challenge of impeachment rules may amount to fruitless and wasteful expenditure

  • January

    • Christian privilege: Court will force Beloftebos to stop discriminating against LGBTQ people - just like it forced a racist guest house owner to stop discriminating against black people
    • Will Hlophe's Stalingrad defence indefinitely delay investigation of complaints against him?
    • Zuma vs Zondo: How the rich and powerful use procedural arguments to avoid legal accountability
    • Reasoned criticism of courts holds the judiciary accountable, questioning the integrity of judges does not

• 2019

  • December

    • Eskom power cuts: Is there a right to electricity and can courts enforce it?
    • Why the hate speech provision was declared unconstitutional and what happens next.

  • November

    • Why more MPs who misled Parliament have not been prosecuted for fraud
    • Why is a DA MP demanding that the President act unconstitutionally?
    • The WhatsApp, the Public Protector, and a reasonable apprehension of bias
    • Why the court declined to set aside the Public Protector’s Zille report despite suggesting the report “may well be” legally flawed

  • October

    • SANEF v EFF: What did the High Court say and was the ruling correct?
    • Neither the religious nor atheists enjoy a constitutional right not to be disrespected
    • On meeting Jonathan in Kampala and why religion and culture does not give you a free pass to harm others
    • Floyd Shivambu: Almost certainly in breach of the Code of Ethics, but what about money laundering?
    • "State Capture": Why the wheels of justice are turning so slowly

  • September

    • Why the EFF ban on media organisations unconstitutionally infringes on the right to freedom of expression
    • Treating obviously false claims against judges and the NDPP as if they are credible is unethical and dangerous
    • On freedom of religion and the right to question religious beliefs and practices

  • August

    • Why the National Assembly is constitutionally required to adopt rules for the removal of the Public Protector and other members of Chapter 9 bodies
    • CR17: Is politics the art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other?
    • Public Protector: Instructing the NDPP to investigate a matter might constitute a criminal offence
    • Unconstitutional law assumes married women will take their husband's surnames but never other way around
    • Nonsensical? How the Public Protector and others use motive to avoid talking about the facts and the law

  • July

    • Mkhwebane: Constitutional Court destroys her credibility, but this is no guarantee that she will be removed from office
    • Public Protector's Ramaphosa report contains a good idea ruined by (more) bad legal reasoning
    • Jacob Zuma: State Capture Commission rules allow witness to be examined to assess truthfulness of his evidence
    • Public Protector v SARS part II: How the report found that the absence of evidence provides proof of wrongdoing
    • The part of the Public Protector report on SARS investigative unit is clearly irrational

  • June

    • The Public Protector is not authorised to investigate allegations of money laundering against Ramaphosa campaign
    • The fight over Zuma's legal fees points to a fundamental unfairness in the legal system
    • A brilliant court victory for LGBT people in Botswana lays the ground for further legal activism
    • No, the reappointment of minister Pravin Gordhan is not unconstitutional

  • May

    • Manuel v EFF: Court judgment serves as a warning for those who defame others on Twitter
    • How long before the attacks against the NPA's new Investigative Directorate begin?
    • Public Protector: Court judgement provides more evidence of incompetence and misconduct
    • Dagga and the workplace: Why the CCMA got it wrong
    • What happens after the election results are announced?

  • April

    • Why voting for "Cyril's ANC" is probably not going to end corruption
    • NPA: Why Ramaphosa fired Jiba and Mrwebi and why Jacob Zuma might be to blame
    • Why the casting and counting of ballots will probably be free and fair
    • Author of "Gangster State" does NOT have a duty to report Magashule's alleged corruption to the Police
    • Why there is no legal duty on ANC candidates to withdraw from election lists if instructed to do so
    • What can voters do about the scoundrels whose names appear on electoral lists?

  • March

    • Possible corruption? - Andile Ramaphosa and the R2 million payment from Bosasa
    • FF+ likely to lose challenge to BLF "blacks only" rule
    • Why court ruled against Dutch Reformed Church in same-sex marriage case and what it may mean for other churches who discriminate against gays and lesbians
    • Malema and the EFF: candidates and parties who provoke violence or intimidation are in breach of Electoral Code and liable to 10 years imprisonment
    • Law allowing for extension of McBride's term of office probably unconstitutional

  • February

    • Will new hate speech Bill criminalise social media activism against racism, sexism and homophobia?
    • An embarrassing mistake from the Constitutional Court
    • Political party funding Act should be brought into operation forthwith
    • What if Ramaphosa is faced by an impossible choice?: Lessons from Brazil

  • January

    • On Helen Zille's "tax revolt": blaming voters for not getting your way
    • Can State Capture whistle-blower Angelo Agrizzi's testimony be used to prosecute him, and can he be granted immunity from prosecution?
    • Is the government coming for your pension and would this be unconstitutional?
    • On art at UCT: Why claims of censorship may be anti-intellectual

• 2018

  • December

    • High Court repudiates all arguments advanced on behalf of Tom Moyane
    • Supreme Court of Appeal gets the law very wrong in a hate speech judgment
    • On the independence and impartiality of the SABC and interference by the Minister of Communications

  • November

    • Little used legal doctrine secures informal land rights of the Grootkraal community
    • Why Discovery Bank's "blacks only" share scheme is both legal and morally justified
    • Response to the legal claims made by the Public Protector's office
    • Regardless of the politics, Public Protector's pursuit of Pravin Gordhan is legally flawed and fails the honesty test
    • Time for our courts to strenghten the rights of transgender South Africans

  • October

    • On the many ways those implicated in corruption defend themselves without ever denying the accusations against them
    • Why Tom Moyane can be fired forthwith, but court may not order dismissal of Gigaba and Dlamini
    • On the possible criminal prosecution of those allegedly involved in the VBS/Vele scandal
    • Yes, saying white people must be burnt alive and skinned constitutes hate speech, but the legal reasoning of the judgment leaves much to be desired
    • The case of professor Sean Davison and the right to die with dignity

  • September

    • Con Court rules that Bathabile Dlamini misled the Court: Will President Ramaphosa fire her (as well as Malusi Gigaba)?
    • Why are some right wing whites so outraged by uncontroversial Con Court "hit the boer" judgment?
    • Con Court cannabis judgment: what was the reasoning and what does it mean?
    • Why changing the electoral system is not a magic bullet to establish accountability

  • August

    • On a childhood in Hennenman and Frans Cronje's alarmist language
    • Why we talk past each other when we talk about land expropriation without compensations
    • Con Court judgment on the NPA finds former President Zuma abused his power
    • On double standards towards criminal suspects and Zuma's permanent stay of prosecution application

  • July

    • What the Grace Mugabe immunity judgment means (and why it may be appealed)
    • On the bogus arguments used to defend people like Christo Wiese and Qedani Mahlangu
    • Why the failure of Presidents Zuma and Ramaphosa to deal with the Secrecy Bill is constitutionally delinquent
    • Advocate Mpofu's threat: what the facts and the law say
    • Attacks on SARS Commission have no legal basis, must be politically motivated

  • June

    • De Lille judgment may have far reaching consequences for DA
    • Jacob Zuma: is it a crime to admit knowledge of corruption and not report it?
    • Why Public Protector's report on Zille's outrageous tweets is a legal nonsense
    • Not a good idea for courts to interfere in firing of ministers (or mayors)

  • May

    • Malusi Gigaba and the Ministerial Handbook: The gift that keeps on giving
    • Markus Jooste can be forced to testify before the National Assembly
    • Afriforum will never forgive black people for apartheid
    • On Danny Jordaan and Mduduzi Manana and the ways in which male privilege protects men who abuse women
    • How open and transparent should the Judicial Service Commission be?

  • April

    • Afriforum cannot prosecute Julius Malema, but a Public Protector report does raise questions about his honesty
    • What did the Conduct Tribunal find and is it likely to lead to judge Motata's impeachment?
    • How credible are the racketeering, corruption, money laundering and fraud charges against Jacob Zuma?
    • It's time to fire racist and sexist Eskom Board member Mark Lamberti

  • March

    • Is Jacob Zuma's lawyers abusing the legal process and acting unethically?
    • Is the state authorised to pay Jacob Zuma's private lawyers in his corruption case?
    • The courts are unlikely to save SARS boss Tom Moyane from suspension and dismissal
    • On Malusi Gigaba, the VVIP terminal, and lies told to the court
    • No, Minister Cele, "criminals" do have human rights

  • February

    • The censoring of the movie Inxeba is an embarrassing legal fiasco animated by homophobia
    • To protect the integrity of that office, the Public Protector must be removed from office forthwith
    • Removing President Zuma: What are the options?
    • SONA: Can it be postponed or even cancelled, and if so by whom?

  • January

    • The Cape Town water crisis: Why is the DA conflating party and state?
    • Commission of inquiry into state capture - do we really need it and will it happen?
    • Expropriation without compensation: how to change the Constitution
    • What would constitute a serious breach allowing for impeachment of the President?
    • Constitutional Court impeachment judgment: what was the disagreement between the majority and minority

• 2017

  • December

    • On recalling Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa
    • On the Nxasana judgment: No, the Constitution does not allow the President to flout the Constitution
    • On the ANC Constitution and the election of a new NEC: the legal issues

  • November

    • Reserve Bank accuses Public Protector of dishonesty: pity her poor lawyers
    • Imagining what happened: On gated communities and privatised privilege
    • Some animals more equal than others?: MultiChoice, ANN7 and influence peddling
    • President's Keepers: Why Tom Moyane might have a legal duty to publish President Zuma's tax records
    • No, the constitution does not guarantee a right to be presumed innocent by everyone until proven guilty

  • October

    • President Jacob Zuma, the art of non-denial, and the distant possibility of impeachment
    • SABC: What the High Court said about its independence and how it will limit government interference
    • Fact-checking claims about the prosecution of President Jacob Zuma
    • Spy tapes judgment: NPA now legally obliged to prosecute President Zuma (but don't hold your breath)
    • SABC Board: Why the President has no discretion in the matter
    • SCA judgment on refugees brings back bitter sweet memories of Rèmy

  • September

    • On "Khwezi", a rape acquittal, and the limits of "legal truth"
    • Was there a "mutually beneficial symbiosis" between SARS and KPMG?
    • Public Protector: Could Reserve Bank Affidavit Hasten Her End?
    • Courts have often pointed to the questionable actions of Jacob Zuma: does that impose a duty on the Speaker to act?

  • August

    • On the old South African flag, symbol of white supremacy
    • Can political parties expell MPs who disobey orders?
    • Early election won't happen - although it is provided for in the Constitution
    • Distinguishing fact from fiction: What happens if a vote of no confidence succeeds?

  • July

    • On a secret or open ballot: What must the Speaker decide?
    • Amnesty for President Zuma? No, it is not legally possible
    • What is to be done about the Public Protector?
    • "Fuck White People": court correct not to find the work of art to be hate speech

  • June

    • Why President Zuma should not appoint commission of inquiry into #StateCapture
    • Secret ballot judgment: Constitutional Court schools members of Parliament on their obligations
    • Absa is poster child for apartheid corruption, but this does not mean the Public Protector can order the amendment of the Constitution
    • Gigaba and Gupta citizenship: several ethical and legal questions remain unanswered
    • Gupta emails provide proof of wrongdoing, and this is the action that must be taken
    • No, there is no duty on us to presume someone is innocent until proven guilty

  • May

    • Brain Molefe: Why were we not told before that he had "retired" and had not resigned?
    • The Constitutional Court speaks about land and dignity
    • Coligny bail (and cabinet reshuffle) judgments show need for reasoned criticism
    • Why it is unlikely the court will review and set aside the cabinet reshuffle
    • Dagga judgment: there are less drastic ways to deal with its harmful effects

  • April

    • Ntlemeza: Did the Police Minister unlawfully interfere with independence of the Hawks?
    • Political Parties or Parliament - Who is more powerful?
    • On a secret ballot in the no confidence vote against President Zuma
    • Removal of President Zuma: What counts is who controls the ANC NEC

  • March

    • On the power of President Zuma to fire Pravin Gordhan
    • On Helen Zille, colonialism and "free speech": Responding to Ferial Haffajee
    • Con Court SASSA judgment: In this Game of Thrones, can Minister Dlamini survive?
    • Myths about the sassa social grants fiasco and the power of the constitutional court
    • Social grants: why a new contract with CPS may be invalid and what the Con Court can do to fix the mess

  • February

    • What happens if the two Houses of Parliament are controlled by different parties?
    • Is Sassa protecting the profits of a private company?
    • No, the Con Court cannot remove the President from office
    • Soldiers at Parliament sends signal that bullets trump ballots
    • Bill criminalising hate speech may protect racists, sexists and homophobes

  • January

    • Gerrie Nel's politically dubious decision: extremely difficult to institute private prosecutions
    • No, a peaceful protest on church grounds does not infringe on religious rights
    • Only a new SABC Board can right the ship at the "public" broadcaster
    • Is it time to elect South Africa's President directly?
    • High Court says "Haikona Motata", awards cost against the judge

• 2016

  • December

    • Hlaudi Motsoeneng: Court attempts to prevent another abuse of the legal process
    • Moralistic view of marriage leaves unmarried couples unprotected

  • November

    • Review of state capture report: the legal issues
    • No, the death penalty is not a deterrent and should not be re-introduced
    • Why state schools cannot promote a "Christian ethos"
    • State Capture: When does President Zuma's silence become an admission of wrongdoing?

  • October

    • Shaun Abrahams could have stopped the prosecution of Pravin Gordhan much earlier
    • Why the meeting between Abrahams and politicians at ANC headquarters was problematic
    • Guptas and the banks can now provide a court with details of the 72 suspicious transactions
    • Gordhan: Is there any case to answer?
    • Remaining SABC Board members cannot make any legally binding decisions

  • September

    • Why Hlaudi Motsoeneng's re-appointment is irrational and invalid
    • The Constitution enables student protest (and it's a good thing too)
    • Minister Zwane's unconvincing separation of powers defence
    • Will IPID go after the Hawks for its abuse of power?
    • Why legal safeguards alone cannot protect independence of the Hawks

  • August

    • There is no factual or legal basis for Hawks to investigate Minister Gordhan
    • Gordhan: No, the law must not take its course
    • On Caster Semenya and the gender stereotypes peddled by her critics
    • What happens if parties cannot agree to form a coalition government?
    • What happens after the votes are counted - some questions answered

  • July

    • UCT's dis-invitation: who has the power to speak and to be heard?
    • Constitutional Court expands scope of permissible employment equity measures
    • SABC censorship weakens SA's democracy
    • SA declines to support gay rights at the UN

  • June

    • No, religious freedom does not justify discrimination
    • Tshwane: Is it time for political parties to become more democratic?
    • Free and fair: Explaining the Con Court judgment on the IEC and the election
    • The problem with using human rights as trumps
    • An end to robust and even rude debate in parliament?

  • May

    • Why NPA appeal in Zuma case is a (very) long shot
    • Is there any legal basis for investigating Minister Pravin Gordhan?
    • Judge Mabel Jansen: what happens next?
    • NPA must indict President Zuma or appeal judgment

  • April

    • "Please Call Me" judgment: will this love story have a happy ending?
    • Keep your gullibility at bay during the election campaign
    • The limited options of opposition parties on Nkandla impeachment
    • Nkandla scandal: it was a simple choice between right and wrong
    • On President Jacob Zuma's complicated relationship with the truth

  • March

    • Constitutional Court Nkandla judgment: some questions answered
    • Con Court Nkandla judgment: forget about impeachment
    • The Guptas, President Zuma and Gordhan: some legal questions answered
    • Why High Court erred in ordering the release of Janusz Walus
    • Why the Constitutional Court stopped the eviction of a 76-year-old man from his house in Mamelodi
    • Hawks not authorised to investigate establishment of SARS "rogue unit"

  • February

    • On arson, police violence and student protest in a constitutional democracy
    • Nkandla: What should have happened, but never did
    • SONA: the rules that should guide the Speaker
    • Is President's Nkandla offer an implicit admission of defeat?

  • January

    • "Virginity testing" bursaries: discriminatory and unlawful
    • The Right to Be Different: LGBTI Rights in South Africa
    • Why free speech fundamentalists are undermining the case for free speech
    • On the criminalisation of racist and other bigoted speech

• 2015

  • December

    • Back in the new year
    • No, a court will not invalidate the appointment of the Minister of Finance
    • Reeva Steenkamp - was it a race crime or a sex crime?
    • Why does our government discriminate against poor, black children?

  • November

    • Constitutional Court avoids decision on sexual orientation discrimination by Methodist Church
    • Debate on Stellenbosch language policy is about who is made invisible and who counts
    • President is in a difficult position, having to be be loyal to both the ANC and the country
    • Murder of criminal suspects by police brutalises us all
    • High Court judgment granting interdict to Stellenbosch University

  • October

    • #FeesMustFall: On the right to mass protest and the use of force by police
    • Sunnyside 7 Released
    • Statement by members of UCT Faculty of Law on the use of violence by SAPS
    • Call for UCT academics to join march about events regarding #FeesMustFall
    • Excluding students from University because of lack of funds may be unconstitutional
    • Available papers in Constitutional Court Nkandla challenges from EFF and DA
    • Changing powers and boundaries of provinces not a done deal
    • SCA provides clarity on the legal effect of Public Protector findings
    • Godfrey Pitje Inaugural Memorial Lecture
    • Why King Dalindyebo is not above the law

  • September

    • Why does the law allow marriage officers to discriminate against same-sex couples?
    • Harvard Workshop on Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law
    • No, turning off News24 comments is NOT a form of censorship
    • Parliamentary rule 53A on disruption of proceedings
    • To address wrongs of the past Stellenbosch language policy must change
    • List of candidates shortlisted by JSC for judicial appointment

  • August

    • Con Court to hear case of fired Methodist Minister
    • On the "snake pastor" and limitations on freedom of religion
    • DA Nkandla Court papers
    • Why perceptions of political interference in NPA fuel corruption
    • Why an LGBTI organisation needs your help to narrow the gap between constitutional promise and practice
    • EFF Notice of Motion to Con Court on Nkandla
    • What the rules say about the removal of MPs from Parliament

  • July

    • Why do dominant religions so often get a free pass from courts?
    • Invitation: Public Lecture on political party regulation in SA
    • Why the ad hoc Committee on Nkandla is legally irrelevant
    • On eating snakes, punching sharks and animal cruelty legislation
    • Judicial Vacancies: nominations sought
    • Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on Rule of Law, Judicial Authority and Democracy
    • Blade Nzimande and the criticism of court judgments
    • Deployment of troops in South Africa - is it lawful?
    • Statement by Chief Justice and Heads of Court on Rule of Law

  • June

    • Another link to Marikana Report
    • What Al-Bashir judgment said and why the Rule of Law is a prerequisite for democracy
    • Complete High Court al-Bashir judgment
    • Law Society Statement on Rule of Law and court orders
    • Al-Bashir: flouting court orders are anti-poor and anti-democratic

  • May

    • Nkandla: yes the decision may be irrational and can be reviewed
    • Media Statement: Public Protector responds to Minister Nhleko's Nkandla Report
    • SERI Press statement: Judge Farlam entitled to release Marikana Report
    • At the Venice Biennale - An ugly, condescending scream on the wall
    • DCJ Dikgang Moseneke: The Media, Courts and Technology: Remarks on the Media Coverage of the Oscar Pistorius Trial and Open Justice
    • DA v Speaker - judgment on removal and arrest of MPs:
    • Dying with dignity judgment - moral views of some cannot justify infringement of rights of others
    • Constitutional Court Vacancy
    • North Gauteng High Court judgment on assisted dying
    • LLM scholarships for 2016 at UCT Law Faculty
    • Religion in schools: time to decolonise our education?
    • Odidi against xenophobia and homophobia

  • April

    • Xenophobic statement: Is King Zwelithini guilty of hate speech?
    • Steve Hofmeyr at the KKNK: why the idea of false equivalences is destructive and wrong
    • The story of the runaway date

  • March

    • Rhodes statue - a reminder of strangeness made ordinary in democratic South Africa
    • "Unparliamentary speech"? There is no such thing.
    • Con Court calls for applications for Law Clerks for 2016
    • Welcome to Worcester - and apartheid 2015 style
    • Mike van Graan and AFAI never loved us

  • February

    • Con Court hears case on right not to be refused emergency medical treatment on 26/02/15
    • Those intolerant of bigotry do not invite bigots to speak
    • DCJ Moseneke: Reflections on South African Constitutional Democracy - Transition and Transformation
    • Who will protect our Parliament against the President and his securocrats?
    • SONA chaos: preliminary legal and strategic points
    • SONA and the EFF - What is the Speaker authorised to do?
    • Call for papers: Political parties and the party system in South Africa: the interface between law and politics
    • Time to confront the evil of apartheid, not only of De Kock who defended it

  • January

    • Composition of the Constitutional Court in the first and second terms of 2015
    • Xenophobic attacks: apartheid-thinking alive in South Africa
    • DA SMS judgment: what the court really found
    • European Court often condones restrictions on free speech to accommodate "sensitivities"
    • Did the politics of patronage require suspension of the Hawks boss?

• 2014

  • December

    • Kader Asmal Fellowship in Human Rights at Trinity College, Dublin
    • James Bond and the National Key Points Act
    • Full judgment on access to list of National Key Points
    • Our own Olivia Pope won't end corruption
    • EFF Founding Affidavit in case against Speaker

  • November

    • Deal between Ramaphosa and opposition was unenforceable
    • Why report of Nkandla ad hoc committee is of no legal relevance
    • Why everything you think you know about free expression is false
    • Death penalty: It's not even the beginning of a solution
    • Job opportunity: Research, Advocacy and Policy Manager at Triangle Project

  • October

    • What the High Court really said about the powers of the Public Protector
    • High Court judgment on powers of Public Protector
    • When some rights are more equal than others
    • Triangle Project seeking a Director
    • Why is Afriforum threatening to censor a work of art?
    • Claude Leon Foundation LLM Scholarship (UCT), 2015
    • Spy tapes: Still no reason to drop charges

  • September

    • Spare a thought for ANC Nkandla committee members
    • The Speaker's dilemma
    • SERI Report: Protest is the "only language government understands"
    • The President's reply to the Public Protector: why it won't hold water
    • The complete Oscar Pistorius judgment can be accessed here
    • Pistorius judgment: Was there no intention to kill someone behind the toilet door?
    • How to have a meaningful discussion on affirmative action
    • SCA dismisses Legal Aid SA’s appeal in Marikana funding case
    • Can Parliament act against EFF MPs for demanding answers in Parliament?
    • UCT scholarships for students from other sub-Saharan African countries

  • August

    • Thuli Madonsela: Wrecking Ball
    • SCA: Full Spy tapes judgment
    • JSC: Shortlisted Candidates for Judicial Positions
    • Nkandla: Zuma's convoluted series of Houdini moves
    • Public Protector tries to assist President to act lawfully - to no avail.
    • Money, power and the everyday oppression of gender roles

  • July

    • The freedom to be fabulous
    • Home Affairs: Is it harassing lawyers illegally
    • Hlaudi weather: The fog is even thicker than it looks
    • Attacks on Madonsela: blaming the messenger
    • UCT Law Faculty: Applications for Doctoral and Research Master's Programme
    • White, Afrikaans universities - when will they truly transform?
    • The suppressed NWU Task Team Report on orientation practices

  • June

    • NPA crisis: Open warfare was just the beginning
    • Censoring Malema seems to have no basis in law
    • Married same-sex couples wanted for interviews for a research project
    • Tlakula: Stark truth, stark choice
    • The law vs. religion: Let's try that again
    • SJC, Equal Education and Ndifuna Ukwazi statement about Lwandle eviction
    • Call for Papers: Conference on “Twenty Years of South African Constitutionalism”, November 2014, New York
    • Evictions: 0 out of 10 SANRAL - try again

  • May

    • Chief Justice on "fornication" and "sanctity of the family"
    • Gay Cabinet ministers: So what's the big deal
    • Address delivered by Judge Phineas Mojapelo at the launch of The Judiciary In South Africa
    • Rights and law: The untold, human stories
    • Nkandla report in court: Zuma's interest or legal considerations?
    • Democracy: let the real work begin
    • The voting process at a glance
    • Address of Chief Justice at AACCEI Conference, Turkey on 29 April 2014
    • May the Seventh be with You

  • April

    • Critical thinking: the vital sign more important to democracy than your vote
    • Elections: how can we level the playing field?
    • CASAC submission to Parliament on work of its Nkandla committee
    • Oscar's 'involuntary action': Thin ice, Mr Pistorius
    • That Nkandla SMS: why it is (legally) complicated
    • High Court judgment on DA sms about "Zuma stole your money"
    • The unbearable lightness of being a Nkandla Report critic

  • March

    • Nkandla - unlawful to the last
    • CASAC statement on Public protector's Nkandla Report
    • Extract from Nkandla Report: How Zuma stymied investigation
    • Nkandla Report exposes President Zuma's personal involvement in the project
    • The Public Protector's Report: Who's got the power and what is at stake
    • Why EFF election challenge will not fly
    • Pistorius and the controversial Twitter ruling: questionable at best
    • Uganda: why quiet diplomacy is a devastating betrayal of gay men and lesbians on the continent
    • PhD and LLM scholarships in law at UCT

  • February

    • All hail independent thought
    • JSC Conduct Tribunal statement on Judge Motata
    • Pistorius on TV: The public's interest vs. the public interest
    • In the age of consent, the buck stops with Number One
    • DA vs. ANC: The importance of political tolerance
    • Campaign fever: the ground rules
    • Human Rights Commission calls on government to break silence on homophobia
    • Let's talk about freedom of speech
    • DAgang's break-up: The finer sticking points

  • January

    • BLA expresses grave concern about use of live ammunition by police
    • Challenging IPID's appointment: Always a bridesmaid, never a McBride
    • LRC submission on WOmen's Empowerment And Gender Equality Bill
    • Civil Society groups reject draft law on women
    • Democratic internal party processes? Hmmm, unlikely.
    • Why redress measures are not racist
    • News flash, folks: private discrimination IS illegal
    • Water is life, but the struggle for it is deadly
    • CASAC media statement on killing of Mothutlung protestors
    • Changing the Constitution? Probably not.

• 2013

  • December

    • UCT post: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
    • Tentative thoughts on reconciliation
    • Karen Zoid tribute for the late Nelson Mandela
    • To call Mandela a saint is to dishonour his memory as a fighter against injustice
    • CASAC Media Statement on the death of Nelson Mandela
    • South Africa's first democratic President, Nelson Mandela, in his own words
    • Love me tender: Constitutional Court gives guidance on nullifying tenders
    • Nkandla scandal: attacking Public Protector must be seen as admission of wrongdoing

  • November

    • What President Zuma told Parliament about the Nkandla "enhancements"
    • Constitutional Court affirms right of President to confer silk status on advocates
    • Founding document of Awethu! A People’s Platform for Social Justice
    • Sonke Health and Human Rights Fellowships
    • Structural racism: the invisible evil that must be addressed
    • Human Rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa acquitted in ZImbabwe
    • E-toll civil disobedience reveals lack of respect for democracy
    • Is this now a criminal offence?
    • We recognise sex and gender as classifications, so why not race
    • Nkandla Report "censorship": It is all about PW Botha's law
    • Elections are coming: Can we have some substance please
    • The JSC: It's not all bad and here's why

  • October

    • Equal Education Seminar: Was SA sold out in 1994?
    • The remembrance and forgetting of things past
    • Nkandla: Untangling that rather sticky web
    • Employment Equity: Solidarity case affirms its role in addressing effects of injustice
    • JSC appoints 7 new female judges
    • Marikana funding case hints at larger problems with gaining access to justice
    • Electoral Commission has a duty to treat candidates fairly
    • Teen sex: The criminal law can't replace parenting
    • The emotionally charged Hlophe case, revisited
    • Khayelitsha policing: among the 'shambles' and turf wars, it's the residents who suffer
    • Media freedom is a right that benefits all

  • September

    • Attempts to discredit Madonsela could backfire
    • The Mdluli judgment: Nxasana's first big test
    • Freedom Under Law v NDPP - scathing judgment (in full) against NPA in Mdluli matter
    • Statement of Marikana Commission on Police cover-up
    • Sparing the rod: what it really entails
    • Secrecy Bill: a touch more confusion and a glimmer of hope
    • Zuma's Secrecy Bill move: maybe not something to celebrate
    • Hoffman's complaint: why it was dismissed
    • Freedom of expression - and the quest for a meaningful life
    • When a joke is not a joke
    • Qwelane: still a homophobe, but his challenge to hate speech clause is sound

  • August

    • Restoring trust in the Electoral Commission: What happens next?
    • A vote of no confidence cannot be left to the whim of majority or minority parties
    • "Of Good Report": Film and Publications Appeals Tribunal judgment
    • New rules needed to regulate money in politics
    • FF+ vs. EFF: doomed to fail
    • Spy Tapes: A clear and simple case
    • Hell is other people (trolling the Internet)
    • Mogoeng v Hoffman: Better not to roll around in the mud with the pigs
    • Women's day - just another day for men to call the shots?
    • Moment of truth arrives for Arms Deal Commission
    • Marikana Commission: more questions than answers

  • July

    • Vavi: How many people truly judge others objectively?
    • Transcript: Chief Justice Mogoeng on the Rule of Law in South Africa
    • Call for papers: Conference in Honour of Pius Langa at UCT
    • Pius Langa: a man who knew the meaning of transformation
    • Full document: Film and Publications Board reasons for banning Of Good Report
    • Why is Film and Publications Board ignoring Constitutional Court judgment?
    • Press conference to announce unprecedented global UN public education campaign on gay and lesbian equality
    • Animal antics and the separation of powers doctrine
    • UCT Law Faculty applications for Doctoral and Research Master's Programme
    • Hypocrisy fit for a king
    • Code of Judicial Conduct for South African Judges
    • Speech by Chief Justice defending the JSC
    • Taking a short break from blogging

  • June

    • President Zuma: think before insulting him
    • Corruption Watch slams "Top Secret" Nkandla Report
    • Secrecy on Nkandla unlawful and tacky
    • Equal Education: the Minister doth protest too much
    • Why Zuma must decide who is king
    • Barney Pityana's Bram Fisher memorial lecture on judicial transformation
    • Willing buyer, willing seller works…. if you have a lifetime to wait
    • Still waiting for Minister Angie Motshekga to announce norms and standards for schools
    • Between a rock and a hard place for wives in polygynous marriages
    • Plans announced to beef up LLB degree
    • Trial by media? No, that's impossible
    • Pistorius: the horror of a broken (white) body

  • May

    • Prosecuting authority: President Zuma's conflict of interest
    • Breytenbach: too little fear, favour and prejudice?
    • The curious case of the pastor punished for honesty
    • What's that smell? Must be the name droppings
    • Oh Shucks, there's a Zulu in my curriculum
    • Nkandla: the National Key Points Act must be ignored
    • Religious hate speech is still hate speech
    • City of Cape Town acting like vigilantes and breaching the Rule of Law
    • New improved Secrecy Bill: still bad, still unconstitutional
    • Chief Justice speech at annual Stellenboch Law Faculty Human Rights Lecture
    • Zuma and the Guptas: the "symbiosis" continues

  • April

    • Why "private" businesses cannot discriminate against gays and lesbians
    • Education: it's about transformation, stupid
    • Eastern Cape rural schools visit
    • Boston bombing shows we see the world from US perspective
    • Time to talk about the appropriate political role of the JSC
    • LLB and LLM Students: Ismail Mahomed law Reform Essay Competition
    • Rebranding the DA: Nostalgia for a past that never was
    • Invitation to Ben Beinart memorial lecture on the right to privacy
    • Review of Con Court and SCA back on table
    • Cardinal Napier, why not name the perpetrators?
    • The JSC must redefine merit to advance judicial transformation
    • Dating: What does race got to do with it?
    • Copy of bilateral agreement between the CAR and South Africa
    • Why Rastafarians can't be fired for wearing dreadlocks
    • CAR: President Zuma's attack on the dignity of all citizens

  • March

    • On the legality of the continued presence of SA soldiers in the CAR
    • CAR: where was Parliament?
    • When is the deployment of our soldiers in another country justified?
    • CASAC Human Rights Day Statement
    • Cardinal Napier, you have a moral and legal duty to report sexual abuse
    • Office of Chief Justice media statement on impending strike by magistrates
    • Nkandla: Why is the ANC protecting the Emperor who is not wearing any clothes?
    • Full SCA judgment confirming right of President to bestow "senior counsel" (SC's) honours
    • MEC who supports the assault of children must surely resign
    • Training for magistrates on sexual offences and child justice Acts
    • Why an attempt to stop the racial integration of residences at Maties is legally untenable
    • The Free Market Foundation's quixotic venture
    • Do members of traditional communities have any democratic rights?
    • Ismail Mahomed Law Reform Essay Competition for Law students
    • Outcry about police brutality sheer hypocrisy

  • February

    • Defamation and social media: We have moved on from Jane Austen
    • Invitation: Justice Zak Yacoob delivers Claude Leon Human Rights Lecture
    • 14 Women shortlisted by JSC for judcial positions
    • Judgment: Bheki Cele loses defamation claim against Sowetan
    • Why justice is not always blind
    • Oscar Pistorius: Criminal Law 101
    • JSC schedule for Constitutional Court interviews
    • Oscar Pistorius and the granting of bail
    • Oscar Pistorius: why media reporting is not infringing on sub judice rule
    • Another woman is dead today
    • Who needs the Ministerial Handbook if you can rely on the (secret) Presidential Manual
    • What do we really mean when we say "never again"?
    • Smuts SC: Submission to Parliament on Legal Practice Bill
    • Sexwale allegations: are we serious about violence against women or not?
    • Why I won't join the chorus of voices protesting against rape
    • On Steven Friedman's incoherent conflation of criticism with censorship
    • Why is Mthethwa trying to stop inquiry into police incompetence?

  • January

    • The influence of money on politics and the media robs us of our dignity
    • Nkandla: irrational state-sanctioned corruption
    • Nkandla: it depends on the definition of "corruption"
    • Reaction to FNB advert like Lady Macbeth's guilty rants
    • Judicial appointments: The JSC's transformation problem
    • Why the criminalisation of consensual sexual exploration between teenagers is unconstitutional
    • Shortlist of candidates for Con Court position
    • Why there are no authentic Africans, Afrikaners, women or homosexuals
    • Who must decide on school admissions?
    • Student Human Rights Essay Contest
    • Why are South Africans not worried about deployment of troops in a civil war?
    • On the common sense bigotry of Stephen Mulholland

• 2012

  • December

    • Free State judgment raises many questions about democracy in the ANC
    • E-tolling judgment illustrates failure of media and citizens
    • Blame politics, not communists or the Constitution
    • Call for action on Khayelitsha Safety Campaign
    • Why is the DA government advocating lawlessness?
    • Traditional leaders caught in a colonial time warp
    • Why Simelane was never appointed and cannot be dismissed

  • November

    • Sometimes "law fare" is needed to protect democracy
    • Complete judgment of Dennis Davis in vote of no confidence case
    • What the vote of no confidence judgment really said
    • Nkandla: why an open and transparent approach is needed
    • Details of Request to Public Protector to investigate alleged breaches by Jacob Zuma of the Executive Members Ethics Code
    • Ngobeni complaint against Jeremy Gauntlett
    • Full transcript of Parliamentary exchange with President Zuma on Nkandla scandal
    • Where is the grace? Where is the compassion?
    • In theory, more legal trouble for Zuma
    • Parody of the JSC
    • "Does Zuma think money grows on trees"
    • In a democracy the court of public opinion is king
    • Some animals are not more equal than others
    • Arthur Chaskalson on independence of legal profession
    • What can be done about Nkandlagate?
    • When will the JSC begin to take transformation seriously?
    • JSC: Why Gauntlett was not appointed
    • Affirmative action judgment might be wrong
    • DGRU judicial appointments database
    • On blaming the victim

  • October

    • Deputy Speaker flouted rules of Parliament to protect Zuma
    • Are defenders of Ramaphosa defending formalised corruption?
    • JSC announces judicial appointment
    • Crayfish boiling in a pot of Zuma water
    • Unified opposition maybe not such a bright idea
    • Vacancy on Constitutional Court
    • Why the desperation to hide the Zuma spy tapes from us?
    • School closures law unconstitutional?
    • Hands off the Public Protector
    • Once small step for Parliament, one giant leap for Ambrosini
    • Why the National Key Points Act is unconstitutional and invalid
    • Constitutional Court invites Zuma to do the right thing
    • Free media protects the human dignity of all
    • Nkandla upgrade: the looting of public funds for private enrichment

  • September

    • Malema's money laundering charge: will it stick?
    • Sharp divisions on the Constitutional Court about the right to strike
    • Taking Pride in the Separation of Powers Without Prejudice
    • Court victory for Durban shack dwellers
    • UCT Law Faculty statement on suspension of SADC Tribunal
    • Alliance for Rural Democracy slams Department of Justice’s new proposals on the Traditional Courts Bill
    • Why we must all be upset about the attempts to silence Malema
    • Is Julius Malema guilty of sedition?
    • Some religious beliefs are more equal than others
    • Woolies and the righteous anger of the unfairly privileged
    • Judicial Conduct Committee statement on JP John Hlophe
    • NPA problems part of larger one party dominant pathology
    • Marikana murder charge withdrawal: the first glimmer of sanity

  • August

    • Democratic Left Front statement on charges brought against Marikana miners
    • Marikana: No common purpose to commit suicide
    • A marriage made in hell
    • Statement on the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tribunal
    • Lonmin inquiry: not bad, not bad at all
    • Terms of Reference for Judicial Commission of Inquiry on the Marikana tragedy
    • Marikana: Avoidable, unconstitutional… and entirely predictable
    • FUL Statement on Hlophe's legal costs
    • Candidates shortlisted for JSC interviews
    • The Sexuality and Equality in Africa Project: Call for contributions
    • Text of address by Deputy Chief Justice on anniversary of assassination of Ruth First
    • Now is indeed the time to ask the most difficult questions
    • Some thoughts on the Marikana massacre
    • E-tolling and the separation of powers doctrine
    • Towards a Parliament for the People
    • "Hooligans" not the only ones who are responsible for women's oppression
    • Between a rock and a hard place, indeed
    • Claude Leon Lecture Invitation
    • When our government obstructs transformation, the courts must intervene
    • Maybe it's spelt M-a-n-g-a-u-n-g?
    • NEC should not conflate the party and the state

  • July

    • How to give lawyers a bad name
    • Why are cabinet ministers above the law?
    • Murder in the wild North West
    • Calling prospective doctoral students
    • Selebi release was legallly sound
    • On Employment Equity and regional demograhics
    • Inaugural lecture by Professor Wouter de Vos: Is a Class Action a 'Classy Act' to Implement outside the Ambit of the Constitution?
    • And what is our government doing (about education)?
    • Should we criminalise racism in South Africa?
    • How not to engage in a battle of ideas
    • Nasty, brutish and short
    • When will the political interference stop?
    • Social cohesion, yes, but "unity", never
    • Some platitudes on returning to South Africa
    • Juju's chair

  • June

    • Of hospitality
    • Thoughtlessness and reflective judgment in democracy
    • The Freedom Charter turns 57
    • On postmodernism and critical legal theory
    • Marx, nationalisation and education
    • Authority and its discontents
    • Announcing a guest blogger for the next two weeks
    • Protests may just have become more expensive
    • Keep your neighbours happy
    • On the yearning for a more compliant judiciary
    • The Secrecy Bill: taking stock of recent developments
    • Calling talented prospective black law students
    • Who was responsible for the orchestrated attempt to protect Mdluli?
    • The silence of the lambs
    • In "The Time of the Vulture" we need to pay our judges well
    • Trying to censor the internet is neither legal nor rational
    • Speech by Mosiuoa Lekota during President Zuma's budget vote
    • ANC complaint to Public Protector about Western Cape tender

  • May

    • The Spear asks many questions, also about our view of human dignity
    • Can the Hawks be independent and subject to political control?
    • Traditional Courts Bill" Alliance For Rural Democracy
    • Unpacking the legal arguments in The Spear case
    • Why embracing progressive social values can set us free from anger and hatred
    • On the real immorality of our society
    • Zuma affidavit in the willygate case
    • How to respond to art (hint: not with threats of censorship)
    • On the President, his penis, and bizarre attempts to censor a work of art
    • FUL's founding affidavit on Mdluli case
    • Cosatu leads an attack on democracy
    • Call for submissions to arms deal inquiry
    • DA, why not admit wrongdoing and move on?
    • Podcast of DCJ Moseneke lecture at Georgetown University
    • Internships at Human Rights Commission
    • FW de Klerk reveals dark underbelly of white South Africa
    • Shortlisted names for appointment to the Constitutional Court
    • A note on Afrikaners and tribalism
    • Chief Justice statement on death of Cabinet Minister
    • Some thoughts of the rise of traditional leaders
    • Roundtable on Race-based admissions at UCT
    • ANC rejects Holomisa's statement on gays and lesbians
    • Affirming their own moral inferiority
    • Who is being brave?

  • April

    • On Freedom Day
    • Freedom is about more than the freedom to die of hunger
    • Corruption and political expediency - an illustrated guide
    • Pierre de Vos: Taking risks, taking responsibility: on whiteness and full citizenship under the South African Constitution
    • How to make an ASA of yourself
    • What will happen to Minister Mthethwa?
    • "Anti-majoritarian liberals" have a right to speak up like everyone else
    • Great Texts/ Big Questions - 19 April 2012
    • What will we learn from NPA record on Zuma prosecution?
    • Civil society groups oppose Traditional Courts Bill
    • What is to be done about the SABC?
    • Pardoning criminals not such a good idea, Mr President
    • Calling all law students….
    • R100 000 prize for anti-corruption proposal
    • Today they come for Malema.....
    • On self-serving and untrue criticisms of the judiciary
    • Selling horse droppings as figs

  • March

    • JSC will (finally) have to make a decision on Hlophe
    • Democratic Left statement on ANC-SACP pro-Secrecy Bill march
    • A word on identity and classification
    • Assessment of judiciary represents a retreat for reactionary forces in government
    • Terms of Reference for Con Court (and SCA) review
    • Another unconstitutional law on the horizon?
    • Pierre de Vos: memo on SA Police Service Amendment Bill
    • On changing the Constitution
    • A worrying attack on the Rule of Law
    • How can we solve problems with our electoral system?
    • There was no coup to oust Mbeki
    • Office of Chief Justice Media statement on "Leadership Conference"
    • The good news from "Dr" Molapo and "Dr" Maxwell
    • Justice Zac Yacoob on the "Dynamic Constitution"
    • Chief Justice instructs judges to attend Christian leadership money spinner
    • Surprising insights on transformation from the Constitutional Court
    • On "bribery" scandals and intelligence services
    • Another blow to the credibility of the JSC?
    • JSC announcemnt on shortlisting of judicial candidates
    • Thoughts on scapegoating and endemic corruption
    • A re-think on the Provinces?
    • Democratic left Front on Nzimande's "red herring" attack on liberalism
    • Oslo Declaration on HIV criminalisation
    • Another brilliant idea by our political youngsters

  • February

    • Julius Malema expelled: the NDC ruling
    • Mixed signals on the review of our courts
    • Media Statement by Minister Radebe about Con Court "Review"
    • Why so little trust in the judiciary?
    • On corrective measures in the Western Cape
    • Bizos & Kerfoot: LRC submission on Secrecy Bill
    • A secret arms deal whitewash?
    • Feedback meeting on Cop17 in Cape Town
    • The historical amnesia of Pieter Mulder
    • Statement on Ugandan anti-homosexuality Bill
    • High Court orders Home Affairs to re-open Refugee Reception Office
    • A 75% majority needed to amend powers of Constitutional Court?
    • Black lawyers Association on "review" of Con Court powers
    • Thabo Mbeki Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture
    • Why the Traditional Courts Bill might be unconstitutional
    • Democratic Left Front statement on Traditional Courts Bill
    • An unambiguous attack on constitutional democracy
    • Democrtatic Left Front supports Cosatu Strike
    • Should we be conferring titles on advocates?
    • BLA statement on disclosure by judges
    • On accountability, transparency and the "bribing" of journalists
    • Spinning out of control
    • Malema verdict might not be something to celebrate
    • Julius Malema appeals verdict
    • Silence = Death
    • `ANC presentation on regulation of the Press

  • January

    • Secrecy Bill less about media freedom, more about national security state
    • Siessa Patricia!
    • Former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson - "Without fear, favour or prejudice: the courts, the constitution and transformation"
    • Law, politics and party disciplinary processes
    • On race and sex and unexamined assumptions
    • Time to stop paying traditional leaders?
    • SANDU media statment about deployment of soldiers
    • On the tragic brilliance of Thabo Mbeki
    • Why a ten year old agreement cannot authorise deployment of soldiers in our cities
    • Can Mbeki make a comeback?
    • Why are soldiers patrolling the streets of Cape Town?
    • Should we always trust officials who remove children from their parents?
    • When silence should not be an option
    • The ANC's centenary celebrations and internal party democracy
    • Get up, stand up for your rights!

• 2011

  • December

    • Another legal oversight by the President?
    • Chief Justice on passing of JP Fikile Bam
    • The end of the year
    • How long will Heath last?
    • The perils of criticising a court judgment
    • Thabo Mbeki responds to allegations by Willem heath
    • Lest we forget
    • Constitutional Court in Bapsfontein shuffle
    • Can the government intervene in Limpopo?
    • Civil Society statement on attacks on the judiciary
    • Jackie Selebi is finish and klaar
    • Casac statement on Menzi Simelane ruling of SCA
    • "No one is above the law"
    • SCA judgment declaring Menzi Simelane appointment invalid

  • November

    • Nigerian Senate votes for draconian anti-gay law
    • Statement of CASAC on Willem Heath appointment as head of SIU
    • Should a court help to make the state's case for secrecy?
    • Constitutional Court once again to the rescue of workers
    • Constitutional Court more pro-poor than the government
    • Cabinet Statement on "transformation of judicial system"
    • How to fix the Secrecy Bill and make it constitutionally compliant
    • Transcript of Secrecy BiIll Parliamentary Proceedings
    • Justice Kate O'Regan's Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture
    • ANC Wikipedia Page - "After the Secrecy Bill"
    • CASAC statement on Secrecy Bill
    • The "Pinkwashing" of Israel
    • Who can we trust?
    • The (moral) Wasteland
    • Maybe he is just a very bad spin doctor....
    • Mail & Guardian case raises difficult questions
    • Whiteliness strikes again
    • Why historical context still matters in South Africa
    • Chief Justice of Kenya: The First 120 days
    • Geoff Budlender Bram Fisher Memorial Lecture
    • You strike a pig, you strike a Broederbonder
    • Malema disciplinary ruling
    • Why Julius Malema's only hope is a "political solution"
    • Helen Zille, the HIV populist
    • Why the taalbulle will destroy Afrikaans
    • Why no human rights culture in the Police Service?
    • Why Zuma cannot appoint Evita Bezuidenhout as NDPP
    • On freedom of expression and the censorship of magazines

  • October

    • Is it in the public interest to reveal details of the sex lives of politicians?
    • Terms of reference of arms deal inquiry shows good political "management"
    • Now angels can't even have sexual feelings
    • Why Zuma's moves may be unlawful
    • CASAC welcomes President Zuma's announcement
    • Announcement by President Jacob Zuma on cabinet reshuffle and inquiries
    • On "Indians", "Africans" and a lack of emotional intelligence
    • What shall we do about the Reverend?
    • Money is not an issue (so let them eat cake)
    • No more dithering: a constitutional duty to make a decision
    • UCLA Law - Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship
    • New York Times: SA slips from moral high ground
    • About the lying Minister and the dithering President
    • About family fights and transformative constitutionalism
    • Invite: CC Clerks Alumni Association lecture series
    • Russia, HIV and drug use - Stephen Lewis
    • Why define myself as part of an "Afrikaner" minority?
    • What is going on in Swaziland?
    • A problematic limitation on the right to freedom of assembly
    • Can Parliament censor journalists?
    • Another legal lesson for the JSC

  • September

    • Revisiting "whiteness"
    • New Electoral Commission members announced
    • DA policy on affirmative action
    • Will the DA stick to its stated principles?
    • Concourt arms deal case was always a long shot
    • On Heritage Day
    • Why it is in interest of the ANC for the Minister of Public Works to resign
    • Open Government Declaration endorsed by South Africa
    • Equal Education town hall at Open Book week in Cape Town
    • Mr Landers, a public interest defence is possible and widely accepted in democracies
    • Invite to Lecture by DCJ Dikgang Moseneke
    • Why the Secrecy Bill is probably (still) unconstitutional
    • Will the arms deal inquiry be "sound" or will it get to the truth?
    • About the "Boksburg Bomber" and the "entanglement of colours"
    • Stop Secrecy Bill - march to Parlaiment on 17 September
    • Dikgang Moseneke to speak on balance between will of the people and supremacy of the Constitution
    • Malema judgment: A re-think on hate speech needed
    • The difficult choices facing Chief Justice Mogoeng
    • The plot to spite our President
    • Why the Constitution is not a conservative document
    • Invitation to inaugural Lecture of Pierre de Vos
    • A tale of two judges
    • Interview with justice Mogoeng - live blog
    • Why Ramatlhodi promotes an autokratic kleptocracy

  • August

    • Submission on Mogoeng's handling of child sexual abuse cases
    • Hold off with the schadenfreugasms
    • Call to LGBT community to attend Mogoeng interview on Saturday
    • NADEL submission on Justice Mogoeng
    • Justice Mogoeng's "application" form for Chief Justice
    • US Law Professors on Mogoeng
    • FUL proposes changes to appointment of Chief Justice
    • What we talk about when we talk about transformation
    • On the right to property
    • A shallow argument not entirely based on the facts
    • FW de Klerk Foundation responds to wealth tax comments
    • On the objectivity of analysts: Bishop Clyde N Ramalaine
    • Justice Mogoeng's judgment in partner abuse case
    • What happened to reasoned debate?
    • Surely Mantashe must know better?
    • Full Sowetan interview with Gwede Mantashe
    • Transcript of JSC interview with Justice Mogoeng 2009
    • Khulumani welcomes call for a wealth tax
    • Pretoria Centre for Human Rights expresses surprise at Chief Justice "nomination"
    • Presidency correct but misses the point on Chief Justice
    • Presidency "corrects inaccuracies" in debate on Chief Justice
    • Justice Mogoeng - an unwise decision
    • Correction of SABC report by DCJ Moseneke
    • Where are you going to stand, my fellow white South Africans?
    • Why provinces have little real power but huge responsibilities
    • Shrien Dewani ruling
    • Parliament cannot change Public Protector's report, so why bother?
    • Who will guard the guardians?
    • Why those punting "the radical middle way" are often not heard
    • A vile attack on a successful black woman

  • July

    • On the appointment of a Chief Justice
    • A ringing endorsement of judicial independence
    • ANC Chief Whip gets it wrong (again)
    • Government dropped the ball on Chief Justice
    • On the political brilliance of Julius Malema
    • Malema, our own Paris Hilton: "Rebel with a trust fund"?
    • Chief Justice Letter to President Zuma
    • Julius Malema: the bourgeois, capitalist, libertarian?
    • ANC Youth League: Why Motlanthe should be President?
    • What now for the Chief Justice?
    • Abahlali baseMjondolo 12 acquitted: statement
    • Don't hide behind (non-existent) sub judice rule
    • Why did this happen?
    • Political parties must be more open and democratic
    • Greed, corruption or incompetence?
    • President Zuma and the separation of powers
    • Speech of Chief Justice at Access to Justice Conference
    • President Zuma's keynote address to access to justice conference
    • Should our Constitutional Court become an apex court?
    • Why big business do not speak up?
    • On the use of force by the SAPS
    • CASAC statement on Public Protector
    • Who will believe this?
    • FUL talk with Justice Ariranga Pillay on SADC Tribunal suspension
    • On the Constitutional Seventeenth Amendment Bill
    • Why President Zuma is like Tretchikoff

  • June

    • Time for litigation on education?
    • The past is very much part of the present
    • Letter to Business Day on UCT admissions policy
    • Book Announcement: Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo
    • On being white and feeling ashamed
    • RICA: Is it unconstitutional?
    • A dirty little secret
    • Julius, you don't need to change the Constitution
    • Too few nominations for Judicial Posts: JSC
    • Lesbian and Gay Equality Project welcomes SA's UN moves on sexual orientation
    • How to solve the problem with the term of the Chief Justice
    • Manyi's adspent plan probably unconstitutional and illegal
    • CASAC to challenge extension of CJ's term of office
    • A sense of justice and common sense needed
    • On the World Cup and our Constitution
    • CASAC joins challenge to extension of term of office of Chief Justice
    • Judges must keep their cool
    • On the term of office of the Chief Justice
    • Open letter to mayor Patricia de Lille
    • Why is President Zuma not signing this Bill?
    • My heart says hate speech but my head is not sure
    • "Truth and deceit know no status or occupation"
    • Equality Court Judgement against Jon Qwelane

  • May

    • Let me tell you a secret.....
    • A recipe for impunity
    • On Egypt and South Africa
    • What now for Judge Aikona Motata?
    • US Supreme Court judges and their writing styles
    • And the winner is.....
    • More thoughts on election results
    • Election results update
    • About "unknown unknowns" and hate speech
    • SAHRC finding against Moqhaka Municipality on open toilets
    • What about the "Steve Hofmeyer" vote?
    • Notes on the "toilet election"
    • Where's the helicopter, I am going to miss my deadline?
    • Dancing on the grave of apartheid
    • 9th Victoria and Griffiths Mxenge Memorial Lecture: Justice Zack Yacoob
    • A positive duty to protect sexual minorities
    • When people are treated as ideological tools
    • Job Vacancy: Director of Centre for Comparative Law in Africa - UCT

  • April

    • On Freedom Day
    • An easy solution to the Hlophe appeal problem
    • Sifuna iitoilet ezikhuselekileyo, ezicocekileyo nezinika isidima
    • When a legal representative makes the case for the opponent
    • JSC announcement on judicial appointments
    • On Lady DA-DA and the shower head man
    • CASAC media statement on death of Andries Tatane
    • Kill the boer: the ANC was against it before it was in favour of it
    • SJC to Queue for clean and safe sanitation
    • SAPS becoming a threat to our democracy?
    • People's Summit for Quality Education
    • On banks, judges and the right to housing
    • Letter by Ms Gundwana relating to the sale of her house
    • Access the Ministerial Handbook here
    • IDASA media release on Minister Shiceka
    • The Good Book leads the way, Halleluja!
    • Chief Justice Statement of death of Judge Herbert Msimang
    • About remembering and forgetting
    • On Zimbabwe, foreign policy and the limits of the law
    • Mduli's conspiracy claim vindicates ConCourt

  • March

    • Finally the truth might be revealed
    • Newsflash: SCA rules against JSC
    • Should the President extend the term of the Chief Justice?
    • How not to criticise a court judgment
    • Primedia response to Bill of Responsibilities
    • What a load of dangerous nonsense
    • Equal Education needs your help
    • Breaching the Constitution not always due to bad faith
    • Scorpions was not truly independent
    • Glenister: A monumental judgment in defence of the poor
    • CASAC "red card corruption" campaign launched
    • The silence of Justice Mogoeng
    • Dreadlocks at school must be allowed
    • Is the reasonable person a homophobic prude?
    • Political parties vs constitutional democracy
    • Reading Manuel's letter like eating a koeksister
    • People who never let you down
    • A rethink on race?
    • Trevor Manuel: What did YOU do during the war Jimmy?
    • Gareth is (still) very cross (and morally outraged, too)

  • February

    • Equal Education late-coming campaign to be launched by Zwelenzima Vavi
    • On selling arms to the Brother Leader Gaddafi
    • Manyi was just being honest
    • Policegate: the unanswered questions
    • Begging voters to vote for the DA
    • No demonstrations in Parliament please
    • "How very dare you!"
    • Are we really free?
    • Crisis in EC Education Picket at Parliament: 17 February
    • On Bono's instinct for what is right and wrong
    • "Do as we say not as we do"?
    • Who is scared of the Princess (and her disbarred sidekick)?
    • On irony in politics
    • Further reflections on academic criticism of courts
    • Read Hope Scholarship for Law Students
    • NADEL meeting on Russel Tribunal on Palestine
    • Toolkit for Action for Optional Protocol to ICESCR
    • The Empire Strikes Back
    • Jeremy Gauntlett: speech to law teachers
    • No ethical standards

  • January

    • Why a free flow of information is important
    • Frene Ginwala speech to CASAC
    • CASAC media statement
    • Social Justice Coalition statement on murder of David Kato
    • Will SABC ever regain any credibility?
    • Who guards the guards?
    • A decision to promote an impartial civil service
    • Vishwas Satgar: Reclaiming a Vision of Hope and a Life of Dignity: Neoliberal South Africa and the Narrowing of Democratic Space
    • Parliamentary briefing on Code of Judicial Conduct
    • Nuts!
    • The Bengal Tiger meows again
    • 24 January in Cape Town: SA, Germany and the living Constitution
    • Insurance for a rainy day?
    • Minister and her advisors must calm down
    • Founding affidavit on behalf of the Minister of Defence
    • Press release from "Spud Milton" and Penguin Books
    • On "Spud", laughter and "political correctness"
    • A picture tells a thousand words
    • Charm or intimidate?
    • NPA Code is a good first step
    • Code of Conduct for SA prosecutors
    • Clutching at straws?
    • UK Civil Service Code
    • Never stop laughing

• 2010

  • December

    • Merry Christmas
    • Letter from Justice Edwin Cameron to the producer of Spud The Movie
    • Should Freedom Under Law appeal the Hlophe judgment?
    • South Africa reverses anti-gay stance at UN
    • This defamation case is not going anywhere
    • Homophobia in Ghana
    • A good day for open and accountable government (sort of)
    • State security and drug trafficing
    • On Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and Blade Nzimande
    • Giving credit where credit is due
    • The ANC and provincial government
    • On the The New Age
    • Random thoughts at an airport
    • World Aids Day

  • November

    • Was this corruption, callousness (or both)?
    • On the legalisation of public debate
    • Hiding in a cave
    • Is this emperor wearing any clothes?
    • On the duty to investigate tender fronting and fraud
    • DA: SA's UN vote a setback for advancement of gay rights
    • Law Society bemoans "lack of basic skills" of law graduates
    • On banks and home evictions
    • CASAC letter to Adv Menzi SImelane on Jules case
    • On the Jules High School case
    • There is no right to be presumed innocent
    • On public opinion and the Constitutional Court
    • On punishing the poor for not paying rates
    • A leap of logic and a leap of faith
    • Another personal attack on an independent institution
    • Judge Kathy Satchwell on the state of South Gauteng High Court
    • When loyalty becomes a threat to society - S'bu Zikode
    • Thanks goodness for our Bill of Rights
    • Braamfontein = 1 : Bloemfontein = 0
    • The astonishing self-denial of Sunette Bridges
    • "Regime change?" - No it's called democracy
    • Prof Fagan responds (again)
    • On Woolworths and freedom of conscience
    • Another email exchange (sort of)
    • Sadly no one has a right to party (or to a job)

  • October

    • Email exchange between Anton Fagan and Pierre de Vos
    • On shooting the messenger and cadre deployment
    • City of Cape Town Makhaza toilet scandal report
    • Premier Helen Zille trying to change the subject on the Makhaza/Janet Love scandal
    • HBS publication on homosexuality in Africa
    • Why the right to privacy is like an onion
    • Dick Cheney = Siyabonga Cwele?
    • Right2Know week of action
    • Dan Plato's Republic and the chamber of secrets
    • JSC announces new judicial appointments
    • Open letter to Premier Helen Zille on Janet Love
    • The New Age needs you....
    • SJC picket demanding City of Cape Town release "secret" Makhaza toilet report
    • The past is unpredictable
    • On euthanasia
    • "We can never forgive black South Africans for apartheid"
    • Is it all the fault of Julius and the racist whites?
    • Stop the Secrecy Bill - Week of action
    • (Not even) the Queen Bee is above the law
    • About glue and superglue
    • Freedom of speech for Afriforum?
    • Don't rely on courts to save our democracy
    • Time for a tea break comrades, but where did that building disappear to?
    • On going to school in a mud hut

  • September

    • On the local government elections
    • JSC judicial appointments interview schedule: 4-15 October
    • 1st Human Rights Indaba at North West University
    • Can the police search your car without a warrant?
    • Blaming the victim
    • Zuma the patriarch versus ANC gender equality
    • Should we throw Helen Zille in jail?
    • New book: Heinz Klug - The Constitution of South Africa: A Contextual analysis
    • Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo Claude Leon Lecture
    • Political cowboy capitalism
    • Advancing the Constitution through social and economic rights
    • Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC)
    • Princess Sisulu = 1 : Nyami Booi = 0
    • Criteria used by JSC when considering judicial appointments
    • A call for electoral reform: Politicsweb
    • MP's now protected from whistle blowing
    • New article by Sujit Choudhry on Dominant Party Democracy in SA
    • Mass Rally on 25 September on informal settlement strike in western Cape
    • WWYHD: "What would you have done?"
    • Freedom of assembly or freedom to riot?
    • Amnesty International Job: Sexual orientation and gender researcher
    • COSATU CEC Political Discussion Paper September 2010
    • Invitation: Public Lecture by Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo
    • In defense of the Internet
    • Who is digging a big hole for itself?
    • Don't say goodbey to NCOP yet
    • Weekend breather
    • Cutting and pasting judicial decisions
    • Invitation to a Public Lecture by Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo
    • Open Democracy interview With Pierre de Vos on media Freedom
    • More thoughts on Blade and the cabinet

  • August

    • Support the 2010 Ntaba ka Ndoda Heritage Festival
    • JSC: Shortlisted candidates for judicial appointment
    • Time for a rethink on marriage, my China
    • Champagne socialism at its best
    • The Windows of Heaven (and your wallets) are open!
    • Why Steven Friedman is wrong
    • SABC Board Memorandum to Minister
    • On race, transformation and freedom of testation
    • Media Appeals Tribunal - circa 1977
    • Access to Justice Week: Invitation
    • The ANC is not the state
    • Why now?
    • Would Media Appeals Tribunal be constitutional?
    • Pierre de Vos: Harold Wolpe Trust talk on Protection of Information Bill
    • The return of fake morality?
    • Pallo Jordan on racism, "transformation" and the DA
    • Why the Hawks?
    • Defend and Advance Media Freedom
    • What do we talk about when we talk about "transformation"?
    • Boiled chickens pretending to be plumed peacocks
    • Somewhere in the wild, wild, East
    • Ronald Dworkin on Elena Kagan
    • More questions for Mbeki on Selebi
    • Legal opinion to Minister of Defence
    • The Princess and the moon
    • Isn't it all a bit too easy?

  • July

    • Do as we say, not as we do?
    • Who could have made up this stuff?
    • Shock and awe at Parliament Street
    • On by-election results
    • Sleepwalking through an empty life
    • Scholarships: LLM in human Rights and Democratisation in Africa
    • Nyanda: Maybe immoral AND illegal after all
    • Immoral, greedy and callous
    • Isis Legal Clinic: Donate to make equality a reality for all
    • Ten countries.... and counting
    • Christine, give them hell!
    • How to mock a racist
    • The ANC, human dignity and freedom of the media
    • Mark Gevisser in The Guardian: "We did it"!
    • What now for Menzi Simelane?
    • On World Cup Courts and the prosecution of "criminals"
    • On corruption in South Africa
    • The story of Selinah: WWMS?°
    • Selebi conviction leaves many questions unanswered
    • "Get over it!" - the wonderful world of Justice Scalia
    • Bad day for journalists and politicians

  • June

    • What have Tweedledum and Tweedledee been up to?
    • Time for rethink on traditional leaders
    • Discrimination is indivisible
    • MSF Soccer game for HIV awareness
    • On one magic moment of the World Cup
    • Legal action on lack of textbooks?
    • Human Rights Commission pro-poor stance must be applauded
    • On "unfair discrimination" and Afrikaans
    • On the Fifa World Cup by-laws
    • On Vuvuzela's and cultural imperialism
    • Picking your nose with your big toe?
    • Not a day for an argument
    • World Cup guide to South Africa (part 1)
    • Another twist in Zuma corruption case?
    • New York Times: Zuma's unfulfilled promise
    • Newsflash: sex workers also have dignity
    • Fifa World Cup: Feel it, it is here (then shut up)
    • "I told you so"
    • On lies, self-defense and Israeli impunity

  • May

    • Secrecy is the enemy of democracy
    • On by-elections and disillusionment with the ANC
    • Amnesty International Human Rights Report on South Africa
    • National campaign for School Libraries march on
    • Not the South of France
    • Public lecture by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe on the occasion of the 47th Africa Day celebration
    • Zapiro, freedom of speech and the Burka
    • Why extend the terms of Constitutional Court judges?
    • Zuma: He is fit and proper because I say so - now shut up
    • Book announcement on socio-economic rights
    • Why do I have to drive past Oswald Pirow Drive?
    • Debate invitation: "The Constitution does not reflect the moral views of the majority"
    • Anti-intellectual South Africa deserves the media it has
    • Legal Practice Bill
    • Practice Directions from the Chief Justice
    • No blood-filled dreams of dread
    • Sad reflection on SA media
    • But what about the alleged corruption?
    • Proposals, Grants and Awards
    • Employment opportunities in NGO sector
    • Radebe cannot tell Simelane what to do
    • More power for the provinces?
    • On torture and human dignity
    • The office of the President: a magnificent colonial building?
    • Section 27: New Human Rights organisation launched
    • Invitation for Public Submissions­ by Constitutional Review Committee
    • On corruption and solidarity
    • Eastern Cape JP retires after fine career of firsts
    • The princess and co-operative government
    • Selebi case: "The dog ate his homework"

  • April

    • On Constitutional Law exam drafting - Prof Ruthann Robson
    • Kleptocratic greed masquarading as high principle?
    • Where are all the women judges?
    • On the princess, her advisors and contempt for democracy
    • On judicial appointments
    • The ANC, Julius Malema and the NDC
    • Hlophe: Here we go again
    • What makes a good judge?
    • Report of the disciplinary committee in Adv Seth Nthai case
    • Announcement: Book on Queer Theory
    • Is Terreblanche's church allowed to discriminate?
    • Blue light bullies: often illegal
    • Call for papers: Ten years after Grootboom
    • What now for Jackie Selebi
    • What should come next?
    • Announcement: Good governance in Land Tenure Conference
    • PW Botha = Julius Malema?
    • The end of democracy?
    • A secret trial for Terreblanche accused?
    • Wake up and worry about the real threats to our democracy
    • Malema in contempt of court?

  • March

    • Why the hate speech provisions may be unconstitutional
    • Is everyone going completely mad?
    • R.I.P. National Prosecuting Authority?
    • On the curious case of "shooting the boer"
    • So who are the perverts?
    • On "hate speech" as a diversionary tactic
    • What we talk about when we talk about accountability
    • Stand for Sanitation, Safety and Dignity
    • Simelane comes through for the ANC
    • Minister Sisulu and the US judicial system
    • Why the silence from good ANC members?
    • On freedom of assembly
    • Why Malema's hate speech judgment is wrong
    • Don't blame the Constitution
    • Call for endorsements of declaration on Ugana anti-homosexuality Bill
    • Idasa Democracy Index now available
    • On hate speech and a phone call from prison
    • End Hate Alliance demands justice for Zoliswa Nkonyana
    • Great start President Zuma, but there are many more questions to be answered
    • Moral code? Nah, let's rather get rich quick and oppress women and gays
    • Jacob Zuma has flouted ethics rules before
    • Call for endorsements: Support equal education
    • Why is Zuma flouting the law?
    • Jeff Radebe (LLM Leipzig) got it wrong again
    • Be afraid, be very afraid
    • The past is very unpredictable and may not exist
    • Shameless canvassing for votes. . .
    • On the limits of affirmative action

  • February

    • Making fun of conspiracies....
    • Selebi's Zuma option
    • "Just trust me?" Maybe not....
    • What now for Shaik and De Kock?
    • Sue? Nah, never
    • Julius: So many questions and so few answers
    • Appointment of Judge MM Joffe as the Director of the newly established South African Judicial Education Institute
    • Julius Malema and the non-denial
    • Radebe (LLM Leipzig) strikes again
    • Statement from the Synod of Anglican Bishops on homophobia
    • Road rage drivers beware
    • Helen Zille responds
    • Gareth is very, very cross...
    • Zanna Bliss - Made in China for the World Cup
    • Daniel Mackintosh - The conditionality of human rights in Israel and Palestine
    • Privacy for "us", but not for "them"?
    • On Nelson Mandela
    • Jacob Zuma's promises come back to haunt him
    • On precedent and Mr Von Abo
    • Mpshe's appointment: scandalous attack on independence of the judiciary
    • Protest action: John Qwelane
    • Zapiro on President Jacob Zuma
    • Let's stand up against the racists and the Kebbilists!
    • Did the President lie about his "wives"?
    • Twenty children and counting
    • Cwele should step aside

  • January

    • Post graduate scholarship to study rule of law, constitutionalism or governance
    • Fifa World Cup: bad for human rights?
    • Nationalisation of the Reserve Bank?
    • Gilad Issacs: "Justice, not charity, for Haiti"
    • More questions on the AbaThembu King
    • NB! - Please sign Uganda Homosexuality Bill petition!
    • BLA in need of a PR makeover?
    • A lot of hot air about section 205
    • Open letter to President Jacob Zuma
    • Médecins Sans Frontières Haiti appeal for help
    • Why no investigation of the "abuse of power" by NPA
    • Jaco Barnard-Naudé - A response to Prof Kader Asmal
    • Michael Osborne - No immunity for multinationals implicated in apartheid crimes
    • Why the Rule of Law matters
    • Prof Sylvia Tamale: A Human Rights assessment of the anti-homosexuality Bill in Uganda
    • A short lesson on Presidential pardons
    • Jaco Barnard-Naudé: Reparations for big business collusion with apartheid overdue
    • Our own Sarah Palin?
    • JSC announcement: judicial vacancies
    • Same-sex marriage case gets under way in California
    • Malachi v Cape Dance Academy and Others
    • Urgently wanted: judicial training
    • Why all the fear, paranoia and distrust?
    • Book announcement: "Walk with us and listen: Political reconciliation in Africa"
    • Can the abaThembu secede from South Africa?
    • SA 'income-based' education system perpetuates inequality
    • Further thoughts on polygamy
    • Is polygamy unconstitutional?

• 2009

  • December

    • What went right in 2009
    • Happy holidays everyone
    • President chameleon
    • On reasonable accommodation
    • Manto Tshabalala-Msimang: In her own words
    • New York Times: Holiday of white conquest persists in South Africa
    • About "African culture", colonialism and bigotry
    • Medical Miracles (ad infinitum)
    • The politics of patronage: Political Report of SACP Committee to the Special Congress
    • The dark side of the Fifa World Cup?
    • Ruling elite not interested in democracy or the Rule of Law?
    • Jonny Steinberg: A suspiciously speedy plunge to ignominy for Thabo Mbeki
    • On fingerprints and the right to privacy
    • In a democracy, suckers will be sucked
    • Deadlines for comment to various legislative amendments
    • Press conference on sexual terror in Zimbabwe
    • Pulling a Menzi Simelane
    • Simelane: more unanswered questions
    • World Aids Day
    • Apology to President Zuma

  • November

    • Our own Minister Ras Dumisani
    • What would Simelane NOT do to protect the President from prosecution?
    • Why Menzi Simelane is a liar
    • Neither fit nor proper
    • Kill the beasts - but only if they are not cute
    • Either/Or - The New Yorker on the Caster Semenya saga
    • Pikoli, the NPA and the R7.5 million
    • XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE IN DE DOORNS - SOCIAL JUSTICE COALITION STATEMENT
    • Moseneke story still no scandal
    • Concerned African Scholars Publication - The Politics of Jacob Zuma
    • Privacy? Security? Oh ple-e-ease!
    • On Julius Malema, HIV and democracy
    • Moseneke, the M&G and judicial ethics
    • If we start killing our own people we all lose
    • "The Beast", the Rule of Law and petty politics
    • “Talking past each other? Race in legal academia, practice and on the Bench” - The Wits Law School invites you to attend a panel discussion on Thursday 26th November 2009 at 17:00.
    • Abongile Sipondo: An analysis of the appointment of SAHR Commissioners
    • Shoot to kill? Maybe some good will come of it
    • Kgomotso Moroka: Transformation of the organised advocates' profession an urgent necessity
    • Zuma spy tapes: will anyone be prosecuted?
    • 208 090 reasons to limit fireararm posession
    • "Integrity in Public Life - Dr Mamphela Ramphele Helen Suzman Lecture
    • Return of the Groot Krokodil?
    • Cape Town a racist city?
    • Wanted: a culture of accountable democracy

  • October

    • Mushwana is greedy and shameful and should be shunned
    • The end of denialism - address by President Jacob Zuma to NCOP on HIV/AIDS
    • Jackie Selebi's recusal application
    • What is Miss Jackie up to?
    • Alleged ANCYL hate speech calls for swift action
    • CSD SEMINAR - Democracy under Threat?: What attacks on grassroots activists mean for our politics
    • UP Centre for Human Rights - Ugandan anti-homosexuality Bill should not be adopted
    • Guns kill people (with a little help of the people who own them)
    • Mbeki, "objective reality" and the truth
    • Same-sex hand holding (Sshh) day - 31 October 2009
    • Arms deal chickens coming home to roost?
    • Jansen's Reitz decision: an attack on the Rule of Law?
    • Call for Papers or Participation - Legal Challenges to Regional Co-operation: The African and European Perspectives
    • Answering affidavit of Mokothedi Mpshe in the Zuma review application
    • Shaik pardon: unwise but not illegal?
    • What is our commitment to transformation?
    • Its all a matter of credibility
    • Invitation to African Human Rights Day Celebration on 21 October 2009
    • "Afrikaners is (not) plesierig"?
    • Water is life (but life is cheap)
    • Why the Rule of Law is not only important for the rich
    • Abahlali baseMjondolo: "Our Movement is under attack"
    • Where is President Zuma?
    • LGBTI NGO Internship offered - work from home possible!
    • Public Lecture by Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on 13 October 2009
    • Berlusconi + Zuma = Politicians
    • Constitutional Court tries to fix its own balls-up
    • Why is Jackie Selebi's putting on such a curious defense?
    • Shaiking all over
    • Well done, ANC. Now get rid of Travelgate crooks
    • JSC, Minister doth protest too much

  • September

    • ANC, walk the walk on corruption!
    • Transcript: CCN's Christiane Amanpour interviews President Jacob Zuma on 25/09/09
    • ANC disciplinary steps against Travelgate MPs?
    • Call for papers - 50 years of Human Rights Activism: Comemorating Sharpville
    • Human Rights Commission appointments not up to scratch
    • Jabu Khuluse of Justife for Hlophe Alliance: We did not work in tandem with Hlophe JP
    • Medical Miracles (IV)
    • Not a bad list - all things considered
    • Do we have freedom of concience and religion at public schools?
    • Why John Hlophe will not be appointed
    • No place for Judge who has contempt for gay men, lesbians and HIV positive South Africans Zackie Achmat
    • Incredible, ridiculous, dangerous
    • Who is advising the Minister of Defence?
    • On silence, patronising interventions and the duty to speak out
    • Ramatlhodi - Rule of Law deployed as sword to decapitate the JSC
    • Just a jump to the right?
    • How to defend the indefensible
    • On public morality, law and death
    • Do we need a jury system?
    • Justice Sotomayor: The Unjust Hearings - Ronald Dworkin
    • Thando Ntelemza: Balancing transformation of the judiciary and judicial independence - a response to Justice Kriegler
    • Sanity and humanity prevails - for now
    • Mowbray, Kaap IS scary - if you are black
    • The death of Dingaan Nyathi was not in vain - Paul Hoffman SC
    • Where was Zille?
    • Unisa trans-border commercial law workshop
    • On acting "arbitrarily and capriciously"
    • RDK waak nie oor Regbank - UP Dekaan Christoff Heyns
    • Haikona Motata (III)
    • Can Judicial Independence Survive Transformation? - A public lecture delivered by Judge Johann Kriegler at the Wits School of Law
    • Not lazy, just callous and disrespectful of the Constitution

  • August

    • Hlophe: what happens now?
    • Majority decision of the JSC in the Hlophe matter - 28 August 2009
    • A sad day for our judiciary and the JSC
    • Hlophe a free man?
    • Mahmood Mamdani: Lessons of Zimbabwe
    • Constitutionally Speaking is expanding
    • Quote
    • Constitutional Eighteenth Amendment Bill: Parliamentary Submission
    • Book News: The Constitution in the Classroom
    • Julius, where are you when we need you?
    • Has Gwede Mantashe and Co taken its toll on our judiciary?
    • R.I.P. Human Rights Commission?
    • Opposition parties shoot themselves in the foot
    • On sex, gender, sexual orientation and a world champion
    • Do you support the Constitutional Court?
    • SAPS shows how not to implement "affirmative action"
    • On Amnesty and its consequences
    • Animal cruelty and ethical double standards
    • Black racism or black prejudice and bigotry?
    • Pikoli = 1: President of the RSA = 0
    • No Shaiking the truth
    • No justice for black lesbians?
    • Ethics guidelines are so September 10
    • Too early to tell?
    • Chief Justice appointment imminent?
    • Can one buy food from "The Markets"?
    • The Public Protector in the dog box
    • Innocent until proven guilty - but only when you are a politician
    • Weekend breather

  • July

    • Can the judges of the Constitutional Court be impeached?
    • On good governance and burning tyres
    • Con Court "shortlist" avoids tough questions
    • What do we talk about when we talk about "transformation"?
    • Who will be our next Chief Justice?
    • On judicial ethics
    • A tale of two interviews at the JSC
    • Medical Miracles (III)
    • On democracy and criticism
    • "Nomination" of Hlophe is an insult to our President
    • Spare us from the US Bloviators
    • Yes, we should "Africanise" our law
    • New JSC appointments bad news for Hlophe?
    • ANC trying to "load" the JSC?
    • Why are Equality Courts closing down?
    • Please drop this crazy idea, Minister Radebe
    • President Zuma hits (almost) all the right notes on the judiciary
    • Self-indulgent? You betcha!
    • The Rule of Law and "conflicts of interests"

  • June

    • How others see us
    • On (judicial) transformation, racism, bigotry and power
    • What now for Provinces?
    • Retired Chief Justice Chaskalson speaks
    • So WHO indeed must serve on our highest court?
    • On debate, analysis and "objectivity"
    • Surprise! Paul Ngobeni is a liar
    • Medical Miracles (II)
    • Why do people (still) support John Hlophe?
    • Competition! Who should serve on the Constitutional Court?
    • Joe Slovo case: the good, the bad and the (mostly) unstated
    • Jacob Zuma the charmer, can it last?
    • A (partial) victory for Joe Slovo residents
    • Subverting constitutional democracy, one step at a time
    • Without access to court there is no Rule of Law
    • The irritating Mr Ramatlhodi
    • Dissolve the people and elect another?
    • A sick note saves the day for Hlophe (sort of)
    • When are 11 judges not the "Constitutional Court"?

  • May

    • Thabo Mbeki's strange relationship with the truth continues
    • David Bullard's weird view of press freedom
    • Appointments to the Constitutional Court
    • Medical miracles (I)
    • FW De Klerk needs a lesson on the Constitution
    • Cosatu can do better
    • A (short) lesson for our Minister of Justice on the Rule of Law
    • "I did have national security with that man"
    • Oh dear, Hlophe might win this round
    • Madness descends on the Western Cape
    • Ministers in the Presidency unconstitutional?
    • On Opposition
    • Mpshe was wrong to drop Zuma charges says plagiarised judge
    • Positions, positions, positions?
    • Pardons for apartheid crimes: must the President hear the victims?
    • Electoral system in need of a change
    • The JSC's Hlophe dilemma

  • April

    • The Scorpions saga continues, but to no avail?
    • Jacob Zuma's National Assembly problem?
    • Happy freedom day: respect the human dignity of all
    • How low can you go?
    • On a two-thirds majority and changing the Constitution
    • Why the long queues?
    • Vote, vote vote!
    • Double standard or respect for the Rule of Law?
    • I have a dream
    • NPA plagiarism scandal maybe hides a deeper truth
    • Lawyers.... and then we pay them for this
    • Freedom is costly, but worth it. . .
    • Happy Easter (thanks to Monty Python)
    • Did Michael Hulley give the game away?
    • ANC, know your Constitution IV
    • This is a matter of the Rule of Law, not Zuma
    • A reckless gamble - all for nothing
    • Reasons please
    • Surely not?
    • For the record....
    • What is going on with the Hlophe case?

  • March

    • Constitutional Court 1 - Hlophe 0
    • Pity they are not on the ballot...
    • ANC know your Constitution (III)
    • Curiouser and curiouser in Wonderland
    • Et tu Trevor
    • Thank you Dalai Lama, you have made us proud
    • Trying to manufacture figs out of horse manure....
    • The Dalai Lama and human rights day
    • Oh dear Minister, are you a liar after all?
    • Fact: Zuma has a case to answer
    • Reasons not to charge Zuma unpacked
    • Tony Leon reborn: now witty and making fun of Zille?
    • The crazies are running the asylum
    • About Joost, that sex tape and the Divorce Act
    • IEC in contempt of court?
    • Free State has funds for parties, not for the dying
    • Limited victory for voters abroad
    • Give Zuma a chance?
    • Death comes to the Free State
    • Minister Pinokkio and Shaik's medical parole
    • Hlophe running out of options?
    • Defending the indefensible... and then not.
    • Minister confused? Or lying?
    • Shaik release subverts the Rule of Law
    • On debate, distrust and ethics
    • Can Zuma pardon Shaik, himself?

  • February

    • One law for ANC, another for the rest?
    • HIV/AIDS, Cope, and democracy
    • Concourt: elitist or pro-poor?
    • Jacob Zuma,¨national interest¨, and the Constitution
    • Hiding behind the Constitution
    • National security? Then why is the President not stepping in?
    • Race, class and affirmative action
    • Niehaus, loyalty and the Rule of Law
    • Parliament neither fit nor proper
    • Process, the last refuge of scoundrels?
    • Citizens abroad to vote - if registered....
    • "Bothers on stupidity"? Racism? Fit and proper?
    • Why?
    • COPE's rogue's gallery grows.... or not?
    • PLEASE, there is no similarity between Hlophe and CC judges!
    • Hlophe has a point - only the President can suspend him

  • January

    • Yengeni, Winnie not eligible for Parly?
    • "Fit and proper" or a "diciplined cadre"?
    • President Motlanthe's sex life and public morality
    • IEC, know your Constitution (I)
    • Has Ngcuka blown the Zuma case?
    • Questions for Chikane, Mbandla, Gumbi, Simelane, Mpshe and Mbeki
    • Between judicial activism and judicial restraint
    • Do we need a country to lead us?
    • Maybe politicians must at least pretend to make sense
    • Barack Obama = America = patriotism?
    • The NPA, the Minister and the headless chickens
    • Nicholson a hero of judiciary after all?
    • On "deliberate falsehoods" and conspiracies
    • Where to now for Mr Zuma, legally speaking?
    • Zuma might be a nifty dancer but he does have a case to answer
    • No comment....
    • SCA provides common sense interpretation of section 179
    • SCA delivers a scathing critique of Nicholson
    • Judicial transformation and Justice Cameron
    • Fire the Ministers? Well, if you are the President yes
    • Democracy comes to Merafong
    • Rule of Law or above the law?
    • The new year will test our democracy

• 2008

  • December

    • Newsflash: Edwin Cameron appointed to the Constitutional Court
    • Happy holidays
    • Mugabe, Mbeki, murder
    • Zapiro, Zuma and (another) defamation threat
    • Boesak and public morality
    • ANC, know your Constitution (II)
    • USA v SA public morality
    • Why Ginwala and Motlanthe are dead wrong
    • National security, the last refuge of scoundrels?
    • Should Pikoli be re-instated pronto?
    • Don't hold your breath for an arms deal commission of inquiry
    • On freedom of religion and the marginalisation of Muslims (and atheists)
    • Police to be shielded from the law?

  • November

    • Another day, another Zuma court appearance
    • Kgalema Motlanthe, HIV/AIDS and the ANC
    • Fit and proper or not, that is the question
    • On "hate speech" and Zuma's "persecution"
    • ANC, know our Constitution I: articles 16 and 17
    • Who's undermining who?
    • Another Pinnokio in the ANC?
    • High Court judges, equality law and the Constitutional Court
    • Julius Malema: secret election weapon for COPE?
    • Freedom of expression and our Universities
    • Zuma and the ANC: does it have a middle class problem?
    • Why can't South Africans abroad vote?
    • Miriam Makeba, strong African woman, hero: R.I.P.
    • Hating Zuma? No, I just think he is our own Sarah Palin
    • NPA appeal: Is Nicholson embarrased yet?
    • Not only in South Africa....
    • The Onion on the Obama win
    • No, not crying because he lost.....
    • On "transformation" and legal education
    • Election day! Obama video of the campaign
    • Transformation and the judiciary: an ANC litmus test?

  • October

    • Mbeki's letter: how I miss those Friday missives
    • Curiouser and curiouser
    • About Judge Lewis's unwise remarks
    • Innocent until proven guilty - but politically tainted
    • Why Obama's election matters
    • No wonder she had been drinking.....
    • The Concourt's wise decision on the Scorpions
    • Criticism of Nicolson judgment hypocritical?
    • Hlophe not always against media statements about JSC complaints
    • Salary increase for John Hlope an excellent idea
    • Once a denialist.....
    • Maybe not suitable for appointment to the bench.....
    • Transformation of the judiciary: Bizos gets it
    • The SABC and the Zuma interview
    • Who will replace Judge Madala?
    • The Hlophe letter of demand.....
    • A risky legal strategy?
    • Why is Ngobeni arguing for Hlophe's impeachment?
    • Floor crossing and an ANC "split"
    • Lekota's announcement: what now?
    • Langa's speech: subtle criticism of Nicholson?
    • Not guilty, but not innocent either: should Zuma be President?
    • Zuma's response to Mbeki court case
    • Motlanthe an inspired (election) choice?
    • Parliament back from the dead

  • September

    • Hlophe statement unfortunate and (partly) false
    • Maybe there are other reasons for criticising Mbeki
    • A judgment lacking in convincing legal reasoning
    • Shocking Hlophe judgment
    • Rejoice, Dr beetroot is no more
    • Game on...
    • Mbeki's Constitutional Court application can make legal history
    • Eleven Ministers resign!
    • Vusi Pikoli, the NPA and the new President
    • Motlanthe to be (acting) President?
    • The President speaks....
    • Who will be the President?
    • ANC and President in need of a constitutional adviser?
    • Thabo Mbek to resign as President
    • Why Nicholson's judgement might be wrong
    • Is he very, very dim-witted or merely lying?
    • Panic among Mbeki appointees....
    • How can the ANC get rid of Mbeki?
    • Quo Vadis Ginwala Commission?
    • An "activist" judgment?
    • What the Nicholson judgment did not say
    • Zapiro strikes back....
    • Zuma 1 - Mbeki 0
    • Just to stir things up....
    • The double standards of Jacob Zuma supporters
    • The dangerous constitutionalisation of our politics
    • On Zuma, Zapiro and that cartoon....
    • Calling the Magistrates Comission
    • On freedom of religion and the gay music teacher
    • Zille maybe not so Zilly?

  • August

    • Constitutional Court "turmoil": all Mbeki's fault?
    • Constitutional Court considers age of consent
    • Why the "weak" shortlist for Constitutional Court vacancy?
    • President must refuse to sign SABC Bill
    • Exit Strategy for Hlophe?
    • John Hlophe, judicial ethics and judicial independence
    • A conflict of interest over the Scorpions?
    • Full High Court bench of FIVE judges?
    • Road Accident Fund: fighting a cartel or stuffing up?
    • Zuma and the Waterkloof Four
    • Goodbey public broadcaster, welcome state broadcaster?
    • The ANC and scrapping of the Scorpions
    • Transformative Constitutionalism revisited
    • Irene Grootboom died, homeless, forgotten, no C-class Mercedes in sight
    • On the art of denial and the eloquence of silence....
    • Criminal justice system in turmoil - and not only for Zuma
    • And now for something completely different....
    • On "innocence" and an orange prison suit....
    • What's going to happen now with that diary?
    • Double standards of the Zuma defenders?
    • Paranoia stalks the land....
    • Arms deal just won't go away
    • A tale of two judgments

  • July

    • Zuma judgement is revolutionary and pro-poor
    • Sandile Ngcobo Chief Justice?
    • Constitutional Court Zuma Judgement
    • Plea bargain for Zuma - maybe not a bad idea?
    • Verbosity masquerading as erudition
    • Hlophe application should be laughed out of court
    • Hlophe in new attack on judiciary
    • John Qwelane, homophobe, at it again
    • Should the SCA and the Constitutional Court be merged?
    • On the criticism of judges (again)
    • Yes we do have a transformative Constitution
    • Happy birthday Mr Mandela, but what about the others
    • Ronald Suresh Roberts may be a plagiarist says Press Ombudsman
    • Should the JSC hearings be in public?
    • Let's revisit the attack on the Constitutional Court
    • Removal of Premiers a done deal
    • Heads of Court chastise "prominent people" about Hlophe matter
    • "Political conspiracy" = "yes I am guilty"
    • Why kill or die for Zuma?
    • Ginwala inquiry: state clutching at straws?
    • Racist yes, but not because Mugabe is "President"
    • The pigs are sullying our democracy
    • Public hearings on Scorpions
    • New York Times columnist on Mbeki
    • Hlophe's ad hominem attack smells of desperation
    • In defence of the Human Rights Commission

  • June

    • On freedom of expression and criticising leaders
    • SABC and the ANC - dangerous moves
    • Zuma's latest application dead in the water?
    • Xolela Mangcu: who are those to be killed?
    • The Hulley letter: what does it mean?
    • Zuma's lawyers going for broke
    • What happens when 5 judges retire?
    • This is Zimbabwe today
    • Zuma trial must go ahead
    • God better hurry up then....
    • Thanks
    • Was there a "mandate" Mr Zuma?
    • Mapping pre-election violence in Zimbabwe
    • Hlophe: shocking, yes, but also a cause for celebration
    • Oh Mr Malema, what are you smoking?
    • What an unfortunate choice of words
    • Who leaked the documents?
    • We have a real constitutional crisis on our hands
    • On the President's budget vote
    • On the Daily Voice and the "M" word
    • Zimabwe: where even the SABC is "subversive"
    • Zimbabwe is a police state - where is SADC
    • Hlophe - here we go again...
    • Was Constitutional Court wrong to lodge joint complaint against Hlophe?
    • Victory for woman in developing customary law
    • Constitutional Court lambasted for Hlophe complaint
    • The JSC and Hlophe: what next?
    • Judge President of KwaZulu/Natal on Hlophe
    • Prejudging Hlophe - maybe not

  • May

    • John Hlophe MUST be toast... or else we are living in a banana republic
    • The end of JP John Hlophe?
    • Scorpions application: snowballs chance in hell
    • Scorpions bombshell coming?
    • On immigrants, refugees and those camps
    • ¨Ordinary¨ South Africans stand up.... but what does it say about our nation?
    • UK Observer on xenophpobic violence
    • Xenophobic violence: why we (still) need ANC?
    • Xenophobic attacks: what do we do?
    • Anti-xenophobic vigil in Cape Town
    • On the State, the Party and the Scorpions
    • Better not visit China then....
    • Jacob Zuma will be our President
    • Attacking the judiciary (II)
    • (Not so) innocent until proven guilty.
    • Wish I was there.....
    • Xenophobia excused or explained?
    • Those were the days...
    • Another mayor, another attack on the judiciary
    • A better li(f)e for all?
    • Water meters, a Porsche and transformative Constitutionalism
    • Spurious case against Vusi Pikoli?
    • Prague spring at the SABC news?
    • Classic Private Eye cover from 1966
    • What now for the SABC board?
    • On the criticism of judges
    • Helen Zille responds....
    • Khampepe Report
    • Mayor Pinocchio?
    • Zuma prosecution a conspiracy after all?

  • April

    • All languages equal but English (and Afrikaans?) more equal?
    • Another racial spat in the judiciary
    • Ginwala enquiry dead in the water?
    • Vusi Pikoli - when will it end?
    • This lady is not for turning - even if it means being a hypocrite
    • Zimbabwe: Why Mbeki is all carrot and no stick
    • Arms to Zimbabwe?: UPDATE
    • Can a court stop the arms shipment to Zimbabwe?
    • Amnesty International Ad
    • Zille, Zillier, Zilliest
    • On free speech and the firing of David Bullard
    • Arrested and convicted for being HIV positive and gay in Egypt
    • Racial exclusive organisations revisited...
    • "Kill the bastards?" - no, not politicians, criminals
    • Black journalism forum unconstitutional
    • "Innocent until proven guilty" does not mean suspension of belief
    • A must read book about HIV and stigma
    • Light entertainment from the Zimbawean Herald
    • On criticism, hysteria and empty rhetoric
    • End of the road for Robert Mugabe?

  • March

    • Constitutional Court almost becomes really brave....
    • Weird book title awards
    • On Stalinism, accountability, responsiveness and openness
    • What are the President and his advisors smoking?
    • Police brutality revisited
    • Conspiracy theories and that trip to Angola
    • Racial tension at the SCA?
    • Happy Easter
    • Human Rights day, police brutality and transformation
    • Maybe politicians should talk to their lawyers first
    • Better than houses in Joe Slovo?
    • On housing, Joe Slovo and that Porsche
    • Zuma's Mauritian trip revisted
    • Zuma's troubling trip to Mauritius
    • No compassion for people who do not drive a Porsche?
    • Where should the power reside?
    • On the death penalty and Jacob Jughead
    • Constitutional Court, fair trial rights and the small matter of a Zuma trial
    • On miniskirts and transformation
    • Marx on Life
    • Stuff white people (in the USA) like
    • "Real" transformation of the judiciary

  • February

    • Asmal's goodbey to Parliament and the duty to speak
    • Reitz Koshuis: Get mad and get even
    • On "kaffirs", "queers", "moffies" and other hurtful terms
    • On Zuma, race and the black journalist forum
    • Maybe not so stupid after all.....
    • Constitutional Court cleverly "solves" evictions dilemma - or not?
    • Ricard on Hlophe and Tshabalala (and what about the Porsche?)
    • Serious slap in the face for the SCA
    • Collective cabinet responsibility and the Scorpions
    • Kenneth, how could you?
    • Where have all the "good" people gone?
    • Pinocchio's office wrongly uses sub judice rule (again)
    • Maybe the JSC is not so bad after all
    • JSC finally takes action against Judge President
    • Badih Chabaan, Juan Uys and the Scorpions
    • Sex workers and the right to a fair labour practice
    • Barack Obama for President
    • Freedom of the Press and the SACP

  • January

    • Talking about race (and Disgrace)
    • (Not) talking about race in South Africa
    • Patricia (de Lille, not Lewis) finally has a bright idea
    • Disbanding the Scorpions unconstitutional?
    • On power cuts, accountability and democracy
    • On the disbanding of the Scorpions
    • Motlanthe for Deputy President?
    • On (Afro)pessimism and the need to criticise
    • What about Snuki and the SABC?
    • ANC pulls back from the brink on Moseneke
    • President Pinocchio
    • Can Selebi be fired?
    • Bad week for Selebi, worse week for Mbeki
    • James Bond, Jackie Selebi and the Scorpions
    • Is the Speaker undermining our democracy?
    • Cosatu, Chaskalson, Bizos and some more confusion
    • Dumb, dumber, Cosatu...

• 2007

  • December

    • Happy new year
    • Jacob Zuma, the NPA and Thabo Mbeki
    • Zuma indicted?
    • Gone fishing (sort of)
    • What now for Zuma's prosecution?
    • On democracy and the election of Jacob Zuma
    • Virus in the ANC, but.....
    • Mbeki: an out of touch, bewildered, denialist to the end
    • On gender, ANC succession and hypocrisy
    • Ginwala probe: more questions
    • Eating humble pie on Jacob Zuma
    • Jackie Selebi ≠ Jacob Zuma = abuse of state power?
    • Interview with Thabo Mbeki by SABC (III)
    • Interview with Thabo Mbeki by SABC (II)
    • Thabo Mbeki interview on SABC radio (I)
    • Badih Chaaban and the law of the jungle
    • On a criminal conviction and the Presidency
    • On race and the black middle class
    • Goodbey Mbeki?

  • November

    • The right of access to health or the right to die?
    • Friend of Jacob Zuma Speak
    • On race and power in South Africa
    • Zuma in lead, but is victory certain?
    • Trouble at the Bar
    • Denialism = dissidence = Mbeki = death
    • And Zapiro on freedom of religion....
    • On freedom of religion
    • Constitutional Court gets creative with orders
    • Satanism the downfall of Rapport columnist, but why?
    • NPA credibility? What credibility?
    • Haikona Motata (II)
    • Why the silence?
    • Mbeki ducks the real lies
    • Zuma's lawyers clutching at straws?
    • Batophele se ma se ....
    • Gevisser: Mbeki admits he is still an AIDS dissident
    • After the Party... (II)
    • After the party.... (I)
    • What kind of democracy do we live in?

  • October

    • Why we need quotas in rugby....
    • What is wrong with the debate about transformation in rugby
    • Why are lawyers such reluctant revolutionaries?
    • Snuki, SABC should respect the dignity of everyone - not just of the VIP's
    • Hlophe to blame for damage to judiciary
    • Sentencing case provides hints of judicial politics
    • Mbeki and the world cup victory
    • Two reasons for supporting the Springboks...
    • Are chattering classes scared of the people?
    • Constitution not ambiguous about the NPA
    • Your days are numbered, Mr President
    • Lies, damn lies and Presidential woppers
    • Me campaigning? Never!
    • On nose studs and respect for cultural diversity
    • Ginwala enquiry on shaky legal ground
    • Kriegler attacks Hlophe, what now?
    • Frene can we trust you?
    • On a sad and shameful decision by the JSC
    • Goodbye Rule of Law, hallo national security?
    • Et tu Zuma?
    • Frene Ginwala: independent?

  • September

    • Speak to us Mr President
    • Manto's advert and the Health Act
    • President Mbeki owes us an explanation
    • Now if they had only warned them about George Bush...
    • Manto officials unwise (perhaps even stupid)
    • Mbeki's AIDS denialism explained
    • Another boot-licker shows contempt for the people
    • Political literacy lessons....
    • Jacob Zuma's tax problem....
    • Sisulu lost the plot
    • Steve Biko
    • Dali Mpofu should rather not dabble in constitutional law
    • Floor crossing and politics
    • Floor crossing: don't blame the Constitutional Court

  • August

    • In Kenya.....
    • Zuma for President?
    • What kind of enemy are you?
    • Maybe a Zuma Presidency wont be that bad...
    • National democratic codswallop
    • Manto and Mbeki: how far can criticism go?
    • Want to sign this petition?
    • Manto and doctors must sue or else....
    • Will Mbeki be fired at end of the year?
    • A thief and a drunk, or just a sad victim of tabloids?
    • Mbeki: Sad prisoner of Western culture and values
    • When (and how) to judge the judges?
    • Con Court life a drag?
    • Finally he fires someone....
    • Slavery is just so last century....
    • A slow week
    • Corruption charges against Hlophe?
    • Keep politicians away from Truth process
    • Mbeki in a bubble?

  • July

    • O Vlok, the past is unpredictable. . .
    • On "facts", bikini's and postmodernism
    • "Because the gays are getting married..."
    • Animals must be eaten and not heard.....
    • Culture is a weapon of mass destruction
    • "Juan Duval Uys" finally arrested
    • On Robert McBride and democracy
    • Judge errs in gagging Mail and Guardian, but truth reavealed
    • Thabo Mbeki = George W. Bush?
    • What the Vlok is going on?
    • Xolela Mangcu on Vlok and prosecution
    • Happy 89th birthday!
    • Should sins of the wife be visited on husband?
    • Zuma's double standard
    • On judicial deference
    • Aids denialism (II)
    • Sunday Times advert circa 1985. . .
    • Judge Hlophe and the transformation of the Judiciary
    • Thabo Mbeki did flirt with Aids denialism
    • ANC paranoia is troubling and childish
    • McBride and the innocent until guilty charade
    • ¨Them¨ and ¨Us¨ mindset primitive
    • On colonialism and Ronald Suresh Roberts

  • June

    • Light posting
    • The scary political logic of declonisation
    • Kebble got value for donation says ANC
    • Free schooling a bad idea?
    • Zapiro on new Mbeki Biography....
    • On "terrorists" and intollerance in Jerusalem
    • Now Mangcu puts in the boot
    • Born Gay? Who cares?
    • Unlikeable Mr. Roberts fit to write a biography?
    • Declaring "coloured/kleurling" unconstitutional?
    • Pay hikes for judges?
    • He sells mobile phones....
    • Can someone please hug the President
    • The doors of Parliament not open to all
    • Christopher Hitchens is not a man of one book...
    • Free speech and defamation in the Blogosphere
    • Why politicians flip-flop....
    • A greedy and shameless lawyer
    • Oasis, Hlophe must rue defamation action
    • Omnipotent God like living in North Korea. . .
    • But maybe hitting a child is like smoking dagga...
    • Zuma is fading fast
    • How will you be defined in a dictionary?
    • Why hitting a child is not like smoking
    • On Warlords and democrats
    • Parents soon to become criminals
    • Why can't Grindrod just let it go?

  • May

    • Another condom add.... funny?
    • Good news for press freedom
    • Male prostitute now claim info on Juan Uys
    • Robert McBride and the Tooth Fairy
    • Is this the best condom add ever?
    • Churches cannot be forced to marry same sex couples
    • Is Grindrod prostitute really Juan Uys/Neil Watson?
    • Judges a little bit above the law?
    • Best condom add ever....really
    • Why is it so bad to have sex with a prostitute?
    • Did Tokyo give shares to Judge President?
    • Now they want to adopt...
    • De Lille no Ms Einstein
    • On tolerance and the evils of religion
    • Oops, somebody must have lied
    • Judge President Hlophe should resign
    • How to insult a man of the cloth
    • It's the experience of opression, stupid
    • Here we go again
    • Jerry Falwell, homophobe, is dead
    • ANC democracy and Tokyo rising
    • Constitutional Court judges do argue
    • Assault on the Constitution
    • Racial solidarity of the worst kind
    • The Onion on child labour. . .
    • Constitutional Court's conservative slip showing?
    • Valkenburg here we come
    • Male rape: what were the judges smoking?
    • Did he fall off his horse?
    • Genital slashing case shows judicial progress
    • Pius no more
    • David Bullard hits nail on head
    • Oh no, I agree with Jon Qwelane
    • The Hansie Cronje syndrome
    • Can police name and shame alleged drug kingpins?
    • Bloody hell: thank heavens it ain't 1985
    • Monty Python and the life of Thabo
    • Mr MEC, you are not important
    • "Proteas lost because of prejudice, not affirmative action"
    • Will affirmative action ever end?

  • April

    • Margaret Thatcher = Thabo Mbeki?
    • Banned Sowetan Freedom day add
    • Fuddy-duddy equality = 0, critical equality = 1
    • Whatever did he mean?
    • Do you write like a boy or a girl?
    • Curiouser and curiouser
    • Tell Thabo Mbeki....
    • FW de Klerk foundation on affirmative action
    • Making fun of Dick Cheney
    • A little less certainty
    • But what about condoms?
    • Affirmative action (revisited)
    • Thank goodness for Jacob Zuma
    • African Court still not up and running
    • In defence of affirmative action
    • Judging the judges
    • What a surprise
    • Wolfowitz does a Hlophe
    • Bush's headache....
    • If all else fail, blame the Constitution
    • The politics of wearing a dress
    • More on Judges
    • Snuki Zikalala (Phd Bulgaria) on Zimbabwe
    • Zuma's rejects court of public opinion
    • Will Judicial Tribunals save our judiciary?
    • Fred Khumalo, why not wear a dress?
    • Bertolt Brecht on democracy
    • Succession "smear campaign" - in UK
    • Hlophe not off the hook after all?
    • Bush's favourite historian
    • Sexuality is genetic: New York Times
    • God hates the world, apparently
    • R.I.P. Pacta Sunt Servanda?
    • Home Affairs to the rescue
    • Honest broker?
    • Mbeki centralising control over judges?
    • Zuma vs Mbeki
    • A man by any other name looks just as sweet...
    • Sex work (again...)
    • New ambasssador for Zimbabwe?
    • Patricia De Lille might have approved
    • Mondli Makhanya on the button
    • Monty Python for Easter
    • Zuma, the Constitution and religious intollerance
    • Law and Morality...
    • No, I am not in favour of slavery.....
    • Stable but homosexual.....
    • But photocopying does not pay as well...
    • Lies, lies, lies
    • At least corporate lawyers are paid well....
    • Zille the liberal?
    • Britain's quiet diplomacy... towards Iran
    • Human Rights Watch on Zimbabwe
    • It's raining men...
    • At least he was dead at the time....
    • Moseneke's pay rise
    • Billy Masethla's last stand
    • More about Zimbabwe: does it ever end?
    • She had very stiff competition....
    • Zuma: 0 - NPA: 1

  • March

    • And they really think deeply about life....
    • Zimbabwe: another explanation
    • Mbeki plotting power grab?
    • Are law lecturers thin skinned?
    • Hate speech versus free speech
    • De La Rey looking for his umshiniwam?
    • Zimbabwe: an explanation...
    • Now Sweden to get same-sex marriage?
    • Moseneke the man to watch on CC
    • Chuck Norris Strikes again
    • Pharmaceutical Calvinism or rational drugs policy?
    • If only Prince told this to CC judges.....
    • Jonny Steinberg, Steve Biko and Thabo Mbeki
    • There's a Zulu on my stoep.....
    • Not out of Harms way...
    • Should we regulate political parties (2)
    • Yogyakarta principles on sexual orientation
    • New York Times on SA's unethical foreign policy
    • The Bible made them do it?
    • Tony Blair ain't bothered....
    • What is Zuma trying to hide?
    • Rather strong case for Presidential term limits....
    • Wanted: Biko not Mbeki
    • Should law regulate political parties?
    • Castro is not amused....
    • Party democracy anyone?
    • Thabo Mbeki, racism and crime
    • Thabo Mbeki on the money
    • With friends like these....
    • Ranjeni's ethical free zone
    • Another look at minimum sentencing
    • Viva minimum sentences!
    • Dworkin: US and UK fall short on democracy
    • Parliamentary skinner.....
    • Steinberg on Manto....
    • CC judges clueless?
    • Taking political accountability too far?
    • One day they will have full democracy too...
    • No respect for the President.....
    • CC corrects SCA's on common law
    • Business Day op-ed on culture
    • Acting Judges on the CC
    • Intelligent journalism on a criminal trail - in the New York Times
    • Viva Ghana!
    • Will the Censor Board protect us from religion? ("EB")
    • Culture and hatred
    • John Qwelane on DA succession battle
    • The end of democracy - in the UK
    • Independence, what independence?
    • And we should trust him on Selebi too....
    • Haikona Motata...
    • Old guard judges - or are they independent?

  • February

    • Paparazzi part of open and democratic society
    • Motata a chance....
    • Arguments today in CC on RAF claims deadlines
    • Statistic of the day for crime whingers.....
    • (Another reason) why not to fly with British Airways
    • Useless but priceless information...
    • Acting Health Minister
    • Constitutional Court trends
    • Are there limits to criticism of politicians?
    • Judge Hlophe's worst nightmare?
    • Paris is sleeping.....
    • Evictions require new understanding of property law
    • Desperation Stations......
    • Why the hullabaloo about a married pupil?
    • "Their spledid eland has waded too far..."
    • Boucher's bum....
    • Judicial Education Bill is flawed
    • Jonny Steinberg: leaders depressed
    • Rather Bloemfontein than Braamfontein....
    • Quicker, cheaper divorce coming
    • President Mbeki mentions crime!
    • Without the papers some women have no rights
    • Xolela Mangcu nails it
    • Zuma still innocent - but tainted
    • SACP borrows from Tony Blair - really!
    • JSC to revisit Hlophe matter?
    • Black judges complain about criticism
    • Hlophe case "unprecedented"
    • Paranoid, imperious, undemocratic?
    • Arms deal: now Chippie Shaik implicated
    • Hypocrisy of Mary Cheney
    • FNB hackers....
    • R500 000 small change for Hlophe?
    • Molly Ivans dead
    • Mti vir my jok nie

  • January

    • Dick Cheney vs Thabo Mbeki
    • Snuki = 1. SABC independence = 0
    • Crime, denial and democracy
    • Zuma will play for time
    • "Kylie" the sex worker has no rights
    • Hateful Homophobia in song
    • Holy Bull!
    • Of nose studs, head scarves and religion
    • Hout Bay land invasions
    • Essop's Fables and Party funding
    • Business Day op-ed on defamation
    • Robert McBride, reconciliation and “fatuous” remarks
    • Billy, Billy, Billy.....
    • Jou ma se Immanuel Kant
    • O dear Mr Roberts, you are a liar
    • Sowetan: Justice Motata will not be fired
    • Captain Blackadder on Bush's new plan for Iraq
    • Justice Motata steps aside
    • The poor (but still unlikeable) Mr Roberts
    • As drunk as a Lord (or as a Judge?)
    • Robert McBride and the Rule of Law
    • Pakistan's own Evita Bezuidenhout

• 2006

  • December

    • Happy New Year
    • Saddam HUssein Executed this morning
    • Safe Sex video reminder for the new year!
    • ANC, criticism and democracy
    • Same-sex relationships around the world
    • Holidays!
    • Something is happening but do we know what it is?
    • What now for Shabir Shaik?
    • Langa vs Moseneke
    • CC drifting to the right?
    • Media neglect Constitutional Court
    • Hate speech on the internet
    • Viva term limits, viva!
    • Customary Marriages unconstitutional?
    • Unprincipled JSC?
    • Does Mbeki think corruption is a problem or not?
    • US Supreme Court Justices Debate
    • President's power to appoint Premiers undermine Constitution
    • Freedom of speech and the old Flag
    • Ronald Suresh Roberts, where are you now that we need you?
    • Dutch children's programme.....
    • What now for Judge President Hlophe?
    • SCA power and prestige slipping away

  • November

    • Xolela Mangcu hits a home run
    • Innocent untill proven guilty
    • About objectivity and judgment
    • Chihuahua or Rottweiler?
    • Civil Union Bill said to ignite debates accross Africa
    • Same-sex marriage passes last hurdle
    • ANC more important than the Constitution?
    • Story of the dominee
    • Permanent stay of prosecution for Zuma?
    • Same-sex marriage won't expunge unmarried couples' rights
    • More allegations against Selebi
    • Constitutional Court pro ANC?
    • Democracy can be such a bother
    • Goniwe, our own Mark Thatcher?
    • Chief Justice Pius Langa to the rescue
    • Vavi's folly
    • Lawyers finally discovering Constitutional Court
    • My take on implications of SCA mistake for Zuma
    • Mosiuoa Lekota, champion for gay rights?
    • Business Day analysis wrongheaded
    • Some Zuma-Shaik questions answered
    • Cosatu, Squires and the SCA
    • Business Day article
    • Weird Civil Union compromise
    • Youth League strikes again
    • Tidbits from SCA Shaik judgement
    • SCA judgment in Shaik case must be bad news for Zuma
    • Zuma may still be innocent but not untainted
    • Why not amend the Constitution?
    • Nqakula's proposal a quick fix
    • Luke warm about legal adviser

  • October

    • Lame duck Mbeki?
    • Review of Chapter 9 Institutions
    • Seperate always unequal

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