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Dan Mafora

Mafora’s ‘legal fictions’ nullify constitutional supremacy
Thought Leader
/ 19 February 2025

Mafora’s ‘legal fictions’ nullify constitutional supremacy

In systems of constitutional supremacy, constitutions may introduce legal fictions, but legal fictions may not be introduced into constitutions, like the Expropriation Act does

By Martin van Staden
Mbalula can’t spin out of the Zuma ‘firepool’ drama
Politics
/ 12 January 2024

Mbalula can’t spin out of the Zuma ‘firepool’ drama

Fikile Mbalula and other ANC officials are now at pains to say that his words were ‘a joke’ and ‘political rhetoric’

By Lunga Mzangwe and Mandisa Nyathi
Ramaphosa walked into a ‘political ambush’ on chief justice appointment
Politics
/ 9 February 2022

Ramaphosa walked into a ‘political ambush’ on chief justice appointment

The JSC exceeded its mandate to place the president in a corner in which exercising his wide powers to select the next chief justice have become fettered by popular concerns

By Emsie Ferreira
Why lawyers argue the case for a Madlanga constitutional court
National
/ 27 January 2022

Why lawyers argue the case for a Madlanga constitutional court

The brilliance of Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s mind and his transformative judgments can prove salutary at a time when the judiciary is under populist attack, his peers hope.

By Emsie Ferreira
Chief Justice Mogoeng, an end to an erratic era
National
/ 9 October 2021

Chief Justice Mogoeng, an end to an erratic era

The chief justice we didn’t know we needed protected the independence of the judiciary through dark days but leaves an ambivalent legacy

By Emsie Ferreira
Zondo may miss chief justice cut
National
/ 16 September 2021

Zondo may miss chief justice cut

The deputy chief justice is said to top Ramaphosa’s list but his position as head of the state capture commission is seen as too politically fraught

By Lizeka Tandwa and Emsie Ferreira
The trouble with clamouring for the Constitutional Court to rule on Zuma
National
/ 24 June 2021

The trouble with clamouring for the Constitutional Court to rule on Zuma

Despite the public interest in the ruling, the commission’s deadline has become irrelevant as it abandoned hope of forcing the former president to testify

By Emsie Ferreira

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