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A story about D, his mother S, and the dehumanising denialism of genocide apologists

On decadent elites: Why do the work when you can just have a National Dialogue?

MK party’s ConCourt challenge to Mchunu’s removal raises important constitutional law issues

Budget postponement brings into sharp focus SA’s new coalition reality

On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Act

Why (almost) everything I learnt on social media about the Buffelsfontein tragedy turned out to be wrong

Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universities

Constitutional Court woes must be top of Chief Justice Mandisa Maya’s agenda

Concerted effort needed from legal profession to fix ‘incompetent’ Legal Practice Council

Sharp rise in number of people shot dead by KZN cops is cause for serious concern

Fix the JSC rather than banning John Hlophe from serving on it

Reasons why the GNU might end up as an exhibit in Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships

Zuma’s MK party may be litigiously backing itself into corner with doomed urgent application

No, a political party cannot sabotage the election of the President by refusing to participate in the election of the President by the National Assembly

The IEC is not perfect, but beware of bad faith attacks aimed at discrediting the election

Why the ConCourt is not the appropriate body to resolve policy disagreements about the NHI Act

Zuma MK party representation may be critical for votes but push for ConCourt judges’ recusal probably a dead end

The slippery path to a stable coalition government

Be wary of political parties that undermine our democracy with unsubstantiated attacks on the IEC

Retaining Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as Speaker is not a legal matter, but a political choice

The case for an academic boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza onslaught

All-white, all-male legal teams are wrong on so many levels

Why ending the ANC’s cadre deployment policy may do little to end corruption and nepotism

Apartheid of the soul: On Wilgenhof abuses and those who justify or defend them

On David Teeger, Cricket SA and the wrongheaded freedom of speech arguments made in his defence

A hustle here and a hustle there — how things work (maybe) in Cuba

Rugby, Rassie, the Springboks, my father and me – a South African parable

Julius Malema has opened himself to criminal charges of ‘scandalising the court’

Zuma’s bid to set aside Raymond Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice is a legal nonsense

On tardiness and torpidity: It’s time the Legal Practice Council stepped up to do its duty