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Employment equity application dismissed
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…
Opposition parties to fight it out in the Free State
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…
Goldstone hangs up his robe
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…
When someone steals your identity, it remains stolen
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.
Everest conqueror ‘not sure about mountaineering’
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…
Judge ‘ecstatic’ about pro-gay adoption ruling
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.
Legal journalism is alive and well in South Africa
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…
Dart safaris for the well-heeled
Hunting a rare animal has all sorts of ethical complications, but now hunters can do it and know they are helping conservation.
Student designs eye-driven mouse for paraplegics
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.
SA catches summit fever
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…