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2025

A story about D, his mother S, and the dehumanising denialism of genocide apologistsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2025
On decadent elites: Why do the work when you can just have a National Dialogue?original ↗
14 Aug 2025
MK party’s ConCourt challenge to Mchunu’s removal raises important constitutional law issuesoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2025
Budget postponement brings into sharp focus SA’s new coalition realityoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2025
On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Actoriginal ↗
12 Feb 2025
Why (almost) everything I learnt on social media about the Buffelsfontein tragedy turned out to be wrongoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2025

2024

Court cases against UCT and Maties are emblematic of the ‘Mpofu-fication’ of SA universitiesoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2024
Constitutional Court woes must be top of Chief Justice Mandisa Maya’s agendaoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2024
Concerted effort needed from legal profession to fix ‘incompetent’ Legal Practice Counciloriginal ↗
21 Aug 2024
Sharp rise in number of people shot dead by KZN cops is cause for serious concernoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2024
Fix the JSC rather than banning John Hlophe from serving on itoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2024
Reasons why the GNU might end up as an exhibit in Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationshipsoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2024
Zuma’s MK party may be litigiously backing itself into corner with doomed urgent applicationoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2024
No, a political party cannot sabotage the election of the President by refusing to participate in the election of the President by the National Assemblyoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
The IEC is not perfect, but beware of bad faith attacks aimed at discrediting the electionoriginal ↗
27 May 2024
Why the ConCourt is not the appropriate body to resolve policy disagreements about the NHI Actoriginal ↗
16 May 2024
Zuma MK party representation may be critical for votes but push for ConCourt judges’ recusal probably a dead endoriginal ↗
8 May 2024
The slippery path to a stable coalition governmentoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2024
Be wary of political parties that undermine our democracy with unsubstantiated attacks on the IECoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
Retaining Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula as Speaker is not a legal matter, but a political choiceoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2024
The case for an academic boycott of Israeli universities complicit in the Gaza onslaughtoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2024
All-white, all-male legal teams are wrong on so many levelsoriginal ↗
29 Feb 2024
Why ending the ANC’s cadre deployment policy may do little to end corruption and nepotismoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2024
Apartheid of the soul: On Wilgenhof abuses and those who justify or defend themoriginal ↗
31 Jan 2024
On David Teeger, Cricket SA and the wrongheaded freedom of speech arguments made in his defenceoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2024

2023

A hustle here and a hustle there — how things work (maybe) in Cubaoriginal ↗
26 Nov 2023
Rugby, Rassie, the Springboks, my father and me – a South African parableoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2023
Julius Malema has opened himself to criminal charges of ‘scandalising the court’original ↗
25 Oct 2023
Zuma’s bid to set aside Raymond Zondo’s appointment as Chief Justice is a legal nonsenseoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2023
On tardiness and torpidity: It’s time the Legal Practice Council stepped up to do its dutyoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2023