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Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. (Photo by Mabuti Kali / Sowetan / Gallo Images / Getty Images)
DIKGANG MOSENEKE

Dikgang Moseneke appointed to bench for SA genocide case against Israel

The matter will be heard on Thursday and Friday next week

  • Paddy Harper
2 min read
Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)
APARTHEID

Apartheid-era high court boundaries to shift

The boundaries and jurisdictions of high courts in Transkei Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei have never been changed

  • Ray Hartle
5 min read
Making an appeal: Bruce Chakanyuka, photographed in Soshanguve, is a qualified lawyer, but works as a waiter because he holds Zimbabwean citizenship and has not been granted permanent residence. (James Puttick)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

‘Unintended consequence of undoing apartheid’: Zim lawyers battle for admittance

A group of Zimbabweans challenging their exclusion from the bar say their home is here, and it is populist opportunism to use unemployment figures to keep their their lives in…

  • Emsie Ferreira
10 min read
Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga during the Constitutional Court judgement on the appointment of Shaun Abrahams as National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) on August 13, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Deaan Vivier)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

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.

  • Emsie Ferreira
12 min read
As former president Nelson Mandela’s family fight to stop the sale of some of his most prized possessions from his home in Houghton, the trust responsible for protecting his artefacts has allegedly not wanted to become involved
ANDILE MANDELA

The rogue daughter, mounting bills, mum trustees: How Mandela’s artefacts were almost auctioned

The Mandela family saga has not abated: Makaziwe faces criminal charges; trustees, including Moseneke, are silent; and Madiba’s possessions were saved from auction only at the…

  • Eunice Masson
7 min read
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY

M&G Thought Leaders’ top books of 2021

The Mail & Guardian asked a few of the regular contributors to the ThoughtLeader platform to give us their views on the top three books they read this year

  • ThoughtLeader
7 min read
Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect. / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)
COVID 19

SIU still to settle civil cases totalling R6.3bn

The Special Investigating Unit has cases dating back to 2019, but rejected that this is a problem

  • Khaya Koko
  • M&G Data Desk
5 min read
An electoral commission official sits next to ballot boxes at the Barbaro Park high school in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)
ANC

Poll day: The Great Stayaway

Only a few people have chosen who will govern South Africa’s municipalities

  • Luke Feltham
  • M&G Data Desk
6 min read
(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AGNES SITHOLE

Constitutional triumph on matrimonial property rights

Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.

  • Nokuthula Mbele
8 min read
The local government elections will take place on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC

Local government elections will be held on 1 November

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma calls for Covid-19 caution as she gives political parties the green light to canvass for votes

  • Khaya Koko
2 min read
Frustrated IEC needs R300m to collect missing addresses for voter registration
DIKGANG MOSENEKE

On pounding the constitutional court over the local government elections

Far from an election being a more risky environment, ongoing anger without an election is more dangerous

  • Philip Machanick
7 min read
The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC

‘You have no power to postpone elections,’ DA tells ConCourt

The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
Earlier this month the IEC, in accordance with scheduling protocols, closed the voter roll after the government set October 27 as the date the nation will go to the polls. (Luis Tato/AFP)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Online voter registration hinges on constitutional court decision

The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s new facility ran for only two weeks before it asked the constitutional court to delay the elections

  • Luke Feltham
4 min read
COGTA

IEC publishes 27 October election date as required by law, but wants to postpone

A report by former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke opens the possibility of a postponement

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is now a minister in the presidency responsible for youth, women and people with disabilities. (Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT

Government proclaims 27 October for local elections, but supports IEC postponement bid

The IEC has accepted former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke’s recommendation to postpone the vote to February, but still needs Constitutional Court approval to do so

  • Chris Gilili
1 min read