Response – 14th September 2023 – Protecting the Public from the Public Protector by Mike Pothier
Yesterday’s removal from office of the Public Protector marks an important, if regrettable, constitutional milestone. It is…
Yesterday’s removal from office of the Public Protector marks an important, if regrettable, constitutional milestone. It is…
Some coincidences are simply too much of a stretch. Very few people will believe that the…
Given the nature of international diplomacy we will probably never know whether or not Russian President Vladimir…
The recent incident in Johannesburg, in which Deputy-President Paul Mashatile’s police security detail viciously and unlawfully assaulted…
On 8th June, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) announced that the validity of all Zimbabwean Exemption…
On 25th May this year, the Department of Home Affairs approached the Constitutional Court to request a…
With the expiration date for the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits drawing steadily closer, and a silence from the…
‘Unprecedented’ is an over-used word, especially in political discourse, but for a government to institute a judicial…
On 14th April, the Gauteng High Court declared that certain regulations, published in General Notice 1426 in…
Two unrelated occurrences within the last couple of weeks illustrate, very starkly, the combination of factors that…
On 30th March this year the Holy See formally repudiated the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’. This doctrine should…
In January 2018, shortly after he became president of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the party’s…
It is no secret that gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) is a pandemic in South Africa….
Last week the Acting Judge President of the Western Cape High Court, Judge Patricia Goliath, handed…
The beginning of the school year sadly brought with it more indefensible xenophobic, anti-constitutional activity, this…