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Ingonyama Trust Board may drop residential lease appeal
The board is also considering closing Ingonyama Holdings
Many of Zondo’s state capture recommendations are a political problem for Ramaphosa
The president’s compromise on what state capture recommendations can be implemented was expected
National Assembly passes controversial electoral amendment bill amid protests from opposition parties
The bill will introduce an untested electoral system allowing independent candidates to stand for parliament but is seen as a missed opportunity to ensure greater political…
Mkhwebane did SSA’s bidding on Bankorp-CIEX report, MPs hear
The directive in the report that the mandate of the Reserve Bank be changed was dictated to the public protector by intelligence officials, a suspended employee testified
And then there were six: Ramaphosa fails to release shortlist for chief justice
The appointment of the Pillay shortlist panel was designed to ensure greater transparency in the appointment of a successor to Mogoeng Mogoeng but commentators are not overly…
JSC lets politics trump conscience and excellence
The sense that the commissioners who nominated five candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court voted for their constituencies, rather than with their conscience, is…
Casac demands record of deliberations on ConCourt candidates
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution again has reservations about how the JSC selected the five names forwarded to the president, after it forced a…
JSC interviews for ConCourt, round two: better process, same outcome
Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo protected the integrity of the process after it descended into politicking in April
Ingonyama Trust’s Ngwenya cannot act on ‘frolic of his own’
Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says
Hlophe asks high court to stay his impeachment and overrule JSC
The embattled Western Cape Judge President is also seeking to interdict the president from suspending him while he challenges the Judicial Service Commission’s gross misconduct…
High court calls meeting on bid to halt ConCourt appointments
Casac has launched an unprecedented bid to have the politics-laden interview process to fill vacancies at the apex court started from scratch
Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful
About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land
Bid to halt ConCourt appointments puts Khampepe and Ramaphosa on the spot
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution argues that politicking tainted the Judicial Service Commission’s selection process
Mogoeng: God, Israel or fatigue?
The chief justice has effectively vacated office five months early as he appeals an adverse finding on his pro-Israel stance and faces criticism from the legal fraternity over…
‘Scrap Ingonyama’s unlawful leases’
Customary law and residents’ customary rights have been degraded, the high court has heard