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President of Tribunal Ngoepe and Chief Justice Maya ‘still consulting’ on media attendance UPDATE: SABC is reporting on Sunday morning that Monday’s hearing will deal only with preliminary matters. BY RAY HARTLE On Monday, October 7, 2024, the judicial tribunal
As we voted in South Africa in 1994 – many of us for the first time – I rather naively believed that it would take just a few years for everything in our beloved country to be hunky-dory, for apartheid
Zondo ignores Mthatha judge’s unsubstantiated ‘open letter’ claims RAY HARTLE Eastern Cape high court Judge Lindiwe Rusi’s so-called “Open letter to TheHonourable Chief Justice Raymond Zondo”, dated December 5 2023, is a verbose,meandering, pamphlet ranging across “vocational paths”, grotesque gossip
Who judges the judges? From City Press, March 17 2024 RAY HARTLE In a history covering the Makhanda (previously Grahamstown) High Court since 1984, when apartheid-era courts were preoccupied with cases reflecting the extreme brutality into which the country had
By RAY HARTLE On Tweede Nuwejaar (second New Year), January 2, 2023, I received a call from Mthatha attorney and member of the Judicial Services Commission Mvuzo Notyesi, clearly seeking to dissuade me from publishing a news article he believed
The Judicial Conduct Committee who met on June 28 2023 to consider the sexual harassment complaint against Judge-President Selby Mbenenge comprised judges Dumisani Zondi, Tati Makgoka and Nolwazi Mabindla-Boqwana, all members of the Supreme Court of Appeal. In its ruling
Chief Justice Held Claims To Be Unsubstantiated Reporting on Eastern Cape Courts JUDGES & JUDGMENTS By RAY HARTLE Two years after the Office of the Chief Justice was first asked if it had received an anonymous letter containing allegations of
Reporting on Eastern Cape Courts JUDGES & JUDGMENTS By RAY HARTLE The complaint of sexual harassment against Eastern Cape Judge-President Selby Mbenenge is likely to dominate news about the judiciary this year. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is due to constitute
RAY HARTLE The Health Justice Initiative is taking Minister of Health Joe Phaahla to court for full disclosure on how South Africa procured 38 million Covid-19 vaccine dosages, which cost up to R10 billion, based on national budget allocations. The
We’re totally crap at a whole lot of things. But mourning? We know how to do that. We’re useless at bringing a foetus into our world – one conceived, still-born, delivered with unbearable deformity in a poor or rural community.
By RAY HARTLE Standard Bank’s announcement that it is giving up on sponsoring Makhanda’s (Grahamstown) national jazz festival and associated youth jazz festival after a relationship of more than two decades, is bound to impact future editions of this homegrown,
You’ve just been diagnosed with or are being treated for a really serious medical condition. It’s one of the most physically and emotionally draining periods of your life. But you have access to wonderful, caring doctors and nursing staff who
I walk into an auto parts & repair shop. I’m here to check out the range of supplies and to ask for advice. So I go up to the counter where the owner is happy to help although I’m equally
It’s one of the great levellers, going to your local fish shop a couple of days before Good Friday, to stock up on fish, mainly because it’s one of the great food traditions in our country that transcends culture, custom
First published in 2009, I was drawn back to this piece from 2009 by the death this week of Delores O’Riordan of the Cranberries: “But you see it’s not me, it’s not my family,” wrote and sang the Cranberries in
The City of Cape Town has given ratepayers until January 15, 2018, to respond to its proposal to impose a penalty fee on rateable properties to offset the drop in income from reduced water usage during the drought. As a
Is Jacob Zuma just an ordinary man gone wrong? This is that moment when we wind down to the end of the year, take a necessary look back, and gear up for a new year, looking ahead to positive changes
I’ve never been good at compromise, although I do try, sometimes, to ameliorate my stoic insistence on a particular action when someone else’s humanity is at stake. (To be clear, I agree that “no compromise” can also hide a tendency
Lord, the current president of South Africa has exhorted his fellow citizens to pray for him along with the other leaders in our country. He made the appeal for prayer during his Easter address to a group of Christians from
It has become for me the saddest day of the year, any year, which no amount of bright face paint, tailored outfits, twirling umbrellas or “moppies” can assuage. Tweede Nuwejaar – marked informally as a public holiday in the Western
Remember the ice-breaker you used to play at youth groups all those years ago? “If your house was burning down, what three or 10 objects would you try to save?” When I was hurtling along packing a bag for an
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