Constitutionally Speaking https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Sharp rise in number of people shot dead by KZN cops is cause for serious concern Concerted effort needed from legal profession to fix ‘incompetent’ Legal Practice Council A story about D, his mother S, and the dehumanising denialism of genocide apologists Contempt of the rule of law by Mr Zuma On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Act On Wilgenhof’s toxicity Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities On the role of judges Zuma MK party representation may be critical for votes but push for ConCourt judges’ recusal probably a dead end Elena Ferrante on the past Kierkegaard on possibility Why (almost) everything I learnt on social media about the Buffelsfontein tragedy turned out to be wrong What the Bible says about xenophobia On International Law and Gaza On the torpidity and tardiness of the LPC Why ending the ANC’s cadre deployment policy may do little to end corruption and nepotism Zondo on cadre deployment The lessons learnt from the process to remove Busisiwe Mkhwebane from office 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 All-white, all-male legal teams are wrong on so many levels Reasons why the GNU might end up as an exhibit in Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships Budget postponement brings into sharp focus SA’s new coalition reality Julius Malema has opened himself to criminal charges of ‘scandalising the court’ On contempt of court and free speech On tardiness and torpidity: It’s time the Legal Practice Council stepped up to do its duty Arendt on evil On victimhood and guilt On David Teeger, Cricket SA and the wrongheaded freedom of speech arguments made in his defence Why the ConCourt is not the appropriate body to resolve policy disagreements about the NHI Act On decadent elites: Why do the work when you can just have a National Dialogue? How Gaza genocide denialism works On the right to vote Be wary of political parties that undermine our democracy with unsubstantiated attacks on the IEC Fracturing of the Constitutional Court Zuma’s bid to set aside Raymond Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice is a legal nonsense Rugby, Rassie, the Springboks, my father and me – a South African parable A hustle here and a hustle there — how things work (maybe) in Cuba On travel by Anthony Borden MK party’s ConCourt challenge to Mchunu’s removal raises important constitutional law issues The IEC is not perfect, but beware of bad faith attacks aimed at discrediting the election Retaining Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as Speaker is not a legal matter, but a political choice The slippery path to a stable coalition government Fix the JSC rather than banning John Hlophe from serving on it South Africa’s request to the ICJ for additional measures to prevent genocide in Gaza The case for an academic boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza onslaught Constitutional Court woes must be top of Chief Justice Mandisa Maya’s agenda Apartheid of the soul: On Wilgenhof abuses and those who justify or defend them