The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for leave to appeal directly to it made by a coloured woman who was overlooked for a top job in favour of a white man. It said on Thursday that disputes over the Employment Equity Act should be settled by the specialist Labour Appeal Court.
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With the African National Congress assured of a large majority in the Free State, the main election battle will be between the opposition parties for the remaining seats in the provincial legislature.
Special Report: Elections 2004
Constitutional Court Judge Richard Goldstone has mixed feelings about retiring from the court on Thursday. ”I have mixed feelings, but I love a new challenge,” he said after a ceremony at the court to mark his retirement. Goldstone is to spend the next year teaching at two New York universities.
Fingerprints, DNA and behavioural characteristics are unique and difficult to forge, but using them to identify an individual in the modern world is legally problematic.
The third South African to reach the summit of Mt Everest — Sean Wisedale — isn’t too sure about this mountain climbing thing. ”I’m still trying to develop a love for climbing mountains,” Wisedale told chortling journalists in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
Over the last 10 days around 1 000 people, aged between three weeks and 95 years, have climbed — or been carried up — mountains across South Africa as part of a countrywide celebration of the International Year of the Mountain.
When a neurosurgery student was shot in the back in an attempted hijacking last year, it was not apparent that his being rendered paraplegic would benefit others.
Hunting a rare animal has all sorts of ethical complications, but now hunters can do it and know they are helping conservation.
Lesbian judge Anne-Marie de Vos said she was
”ecstatic” after the Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that gays and lesbians could jointly adopt children.
A ”totally overwhelmed” Philip de Bruin, senior assistant editor of the Beeld, received the Webber Wentzel Bowens Legal Journalist of the Year award for the second year running on
Wednesday.