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Karyn Maughan works from Johannesburg, South Africa. Legal journalist. Writes for Tiso Blackstar. Newzroom Afrika contributor. Optimist. IG: karynannemaughan Karyn Maughan has over 336089 followers on Twitter.
Cases about the rights of the vulnerable are overshadowed by his legal-political games.
There is a gaping hole between how the legal system waded through the mess of evidence and how those outside court did.
The Vlakplaas member who killed ANC activists says he is not haunted by his past because he told the truth and helped the families get closure.
Reinstating charges against Glynnis Breytenbach and Johan Booysen as the DA awaits a ruling regarding Nomgcobo Jiba could be the NPA’s downfall.
SA’s judges have the unenviable job of ensuring that the state complies with the Constitution amid government’s poor decision-making and abuses.
President Jacob Zuma’s characteristic counterattack is going to be sorely tested on two fronts this year: the spy tapes case and Nkandla.
There’s something odd about being fixated on the Pistorius case while the country implodes.
The Supreme Court of Appeal has branded the Olympic track athlete with the murderer label he so dreaded as he faces a minimum 15 years in jail.
Endurance is the word that defines how South African Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and his mother survived the cruelties of apartheid.
Oscar Pistorius’s release has brought the justice minister’s criticism of the system to the fore
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s stalled release appears to have shut the doors for many offenders in a similar situation.
There is a growing sense of alienation sweeping through the artistic community, in terms of support from both the state and the private sector.
Writer Seamus Heaney has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University, writes Karyn Maughan.
