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Lawyers agree that the issue is inevitably heading for constitutional challenge, but not all accept the mainstream view that the limitation of rights is justifiable
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On Thursday the president honoured South Africans and eminent foreign nationals with the highest award the country offers
Delaying the vaccination of prisoners could lead to a public health disaster
In their new book, photojournalists Alon Skuy and James Oatway situate their often harrowing images among contextual writing
Near Makhanda in the Eastern Cape in the village of Salem is a cricket pitch that is said to be the oldest in the country. Watered by blood and trauma, rolled with frontier nostalgia and contemporary paranoia, how does it play?
Let us please not repeat the devastating Aids story where people died of shame rather than admit being infected by the virus
Inspectorate finds serious overcrowding at ‘Sun City’ centre, putting inmates at risk of Covid-19
The retired Constitutional Court judge is the new inspector of prisons and he argues that SA’s courts should stop filling them up
Justices Zukisa Tshiqi and Steven Majiedt will begin at the Constitutional Court on October 1
Twenty-five years on from our first democratic election, the need for role models for young queer people is felt now more than ever
Justice: A Personal Account, by Edwin Cameron (Tafelberg).
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Judge Edwin Cameron grapples with revealing his HIV status in this extract from his book, "Justice: A Personal Account".
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Mandela regretted not acting on HIV during his presidency, but he made up for it in spades.
Unexpected progressiveness from Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng is drawing a chorus of approval in legal circles.
Hawks ‘insufficiently insulated from
political interference’, says Concourt
Justice Edwin Cameron has justly been heralded as an exemplar of the kind of judge required to meet the transformative demands of our Constitution.
South Africa is moving further away from the visions of those who struggled for liberation, Jody Kollapen said on Wednesday.
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Almost 10 years after his appointment was blocked by Thabo Mbeki, Edwin Cameron has been confirmed as a judge of the Constitutional Court.
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The Judicial Service Commission on Thursday released the shortlist of candidates to be interviewed for the Constitutional Court seat due to be vacated
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The Judicial Service Commission will be
re-advertising the position, writes Sello S Alcock.
Pretoria High Court Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann has withdrawn from the race to succeed Constitutional Court Judge Tholakele Madala.
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One of the first hot potatoes President Kgalema Motlanthe will have to handle is the choice of the 18th judge of the Constitutional Court.
Commentators weigh in on the likely Constitutional Court candidates
Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
South African HIV/Aids activist Zackie Achmat got married to his co-campaigner boyfriend at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests, newspapers reported on Sunday. Achmat (45), founder and chairperson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the country’s main Aids lobby, married Dalli Weyers on Saturday at a colourful occasion near Cape Town.
Finally, Cameron questions the decision of former Chief Justice Pierre Rabie to accept a post as acting chief justice.