SOUTH AFRICA is unique in the world so far as right-wing Christian theology is concerned. The so-called 'Covenant of Blood River' is one of the few instances in which settlers went far beyond racist concepts such as 'manifest destiny' and 'eminent domain' . The Boers literally declared themselves...

IN A LENGTHY statement to the press early this month, South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng warned those 'making allegations against judges and the judiciary to stop hiding behind fictional identities or names' He claimed further that he never received any formal complaints against his col...

WITH LITTLE or no debate on the issue in the public sphere, (no Imbizos, lekgotlas nor indabas ) South Africa’s constitutional court delivered yet another major decision. This time making the country the 57th nation in the world to ban child spanking. That we appear to be moving away from the cas...

SOUTH AFRICANS may be suffering under a collective delusion, the rule of law. If one reads the latest round of media commentary, we are either stricken with a hopelessly corrupt judicial system, or driven by ulterior motives to question an infallible judiciary. In this binary view judges are eith...

TIMES LIVE reports that justice minister Ronald Lamola apparently wants the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Neil Aggett and Hoosen Haffejee to be re-investigated. Only time can tell if he is serious this time. Lamola announced on Friday, according to the online daily, that he had requested the...

THERE is no evidence that the Ruperts were during the 1980s, for all intents and purposes, in favour of anything more than apartheid euphemism and cant — the shallow transformation which characterised PW Botha's much-vaunted tricameral Parliament and which for a short time, allowed for separate h...