Dan Mafora
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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
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’
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
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.
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
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
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