Leading legal professionals have dismissed suggestions that the Constitutional Court is in disarray and that it suffers from poor leadership.
Leaders of the ANC are trying to fix its image ahead of the 2009 elections, but it is battling to speak with one voice, analysts say.
Members of the legal fraternity are proposing a graceful exit for the Cape judge president.
It is a ”media myth” that the Cosatu does not respect the independence of the judiciary, its general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, said on Wednesday.
So many South Africans who have proven their bona fides in bucketloads are now being called enemies of the revolution.
Former DA leader Tony Leon says the crisis in the judiciary has been more than a decade in the making.
In a one-party dominant state like SA, officials with political aspirations that suit the ANC are allowed to ride roughshod over our hard-won values.
As is evident from the number of people who have turned out to support him, many ordinary people believe he deserves a fair hearing.
The African National Congress is aiming to intimidate judges through its attacks on the judiciary, the Pan Africanist Congress said on Sunday.
ANC leaders prepare to push for legislation against prosecution of a sitting president, write Rapule Tabane and Mandy Rossouw.
Threats by supporters of ANC president Jacob Zuma to make the country ungovernable should he be sent to jail were cause for concern, said the Cabinet.
The term political trial is difficult to define, but it usually takes the form of a criminal prosecution of a political opponent of the ruling party.
The future of the constitutional project depends on cooperation rather than confrontation between the government and the courts.
The proceedings of the Hlophe hearing must not be distorted by TV cameras and lights.
The ANC has reportedly proposed a merging of the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal. Is this an attack on the judiciary?
The ANC has shrugged off criticisms that recent remarks by its secretary general amounted to an attack on the independence of the judiciary.
Director Jane Lipman couldn’t have wished for a better time to launch her thought-provoking documentary on the lives of South African women judges.
The US presidential hopeful is a great improvement on the current leadership, but just how progressive he might be remains to be seen.
Black legal organisations closed ranks around Hlophe this week, adding their voices to a chorus of criticism about the court’s conduct.
A Johannesburg Bar member protests against the attack on Judge John Hlophe on insubstantial evidence.
The chair of Parliament’s justice committee has called for the Judicial Service Commission to consider opening to the public some of its hearings on the conduct of Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
South Africa’s commitment to the rule of law faces a critical test in the coming months, former president FW de Klerk told the British South African Law Association.