The postponement of the Budget was, on balance, a positive sign. It suggests a moderate degree of pragmatism among the major players that is surprising, given how radically different the two largest coalition parties are. 

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It should be possible for citizens with radically different political views to have constructive discussions about the merits of the Expropriation Act. But this becomes difficult when criticisms are not fact based, or are just plain false.

The SAPS’ operation Vala Umgodi which led to more than a 100 miners starving to death in shaft 10 and 11 at the Buffelsfontein mine required the complete erasure of the individual human beings who became the victims of this operation, and their ...

Even when the legal arguments in such lawfare cases are weak or absurd, the litigation itself can be of value to litigants who seek to utilise the court hearings to air a litany of real or imagined grievances.

In the wake of a de...

It is impossible to ignore recent examples of truly woeful judgments emanating from the Constitutional Court. Two recent judgments dealing with equality law illustrate this point.

The appointment of Justice Mandisa Maya as Chief ...