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Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke. (Photo by Mabuti Kali / Sowetan / Gallo Images / Getty Images)

Dikgang Moseneke appointed to bench for SA genocide case against Israel

The matter will be heard on Thursday and Friday next week

Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)

Apartheid-era high court boundaries to shift

The boundaries and jurisdictions of high courts in Transkei Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei have never been changed

Making an appeal: Bruce Chakanyuka, photographed in Soshanguve, is a qualified lawyer, but works as a waiter because he holds Zimbabwean citizenship and has not been granted permanent residence. (James Puttick)

‘Unintended consequence of undoing apartheid’: Zim lawyers battle for admittance

A group of Zimbabweans challenging their exclusion from the bar say their home is here, and it is populist opportunism to use unemployment figures to keep their their lives in…

Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga during the Constitutional Court judgement on the appointment of Shaun Abrahams as National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) on August 13, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.  (Photo by Gallo Images / Netwerk24 / Deaan Vivier)

Why lawyers argue the case for a Madlanga constitutional court

The brilliance of Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga’s mind and his transformative judgments can prove salutary at a time when the judiciary is under populist attack, his peers hope.

As former president Nelson Mandela’s family fight to stop the sale of some of his most prized possessions from his home in Houghton, the trust responsible for protecting his artefacts has allegedly not wanted to become involved

The rogue daughter, mounting bills, mum trustees: How Mandela’s artefacts were almost auctioned

The Mandela family saga has not abated: Makaziwe faces criminal charges; trustees, including Moseneke, are silent; and Madiba’s possessions were saved from auction only at the…

M&G Thought Leaders’ top books of 2021

The Mail & Guardian asked a few of the regular contributors to the ThoughtLeader platform to give us their views on the top three books they read this year

Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect.  / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA        (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

SIU still to settle civil cases totalling R6.3bn

The Special Investigating Unit has cases dating back to 2019, but rejected that this is a problem

An electoral commission official sits next to ballot boxes at the Barbaro Park high school in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, on November 1, 2021, during South Africa’s local elections. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP)

Poll day: The Great Stayaway

Only a few people have chosen who will govern South Africa’s municipalities

(Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Constitutional triumph on matrimonial property rights

Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.

The local government elections will take place on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Local government elections will be held on 1 November

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma calls for Covid-19 caution as she gives political parties the green light to canvass for votes

Frustrated IEC needs R300m to collect missing addresses for voter registration

On pounding the constitutional court over the local government elections

Far from an election being a more risky environment, ongoing anger without an election is more dangerous

The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

‘You have no power to postpone elections,’ DA tells ConCourt

The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections

Earlier this month the IEC, in accordance with scheduling protocols, closed the voter roll after the government set October 27 as the date the nation will go to the polls. (Luis Tato/AFP)

Online voter registration hinges on constitutional court decision

The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s new facility ran for only two weeks before it asked the constitutional court to delay the elections

Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is now a minister in the presidency responsible for youth, women and people with disabilities. (Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Government proclaims 27 October for local elections, but supports IEC postponement bid

The IEC has accepted former deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke’s recommendation to postpone the vote to February, but still needs Constitutional Court approval to do so

The deaths of 141 mental health patients occurred when they were moved to unlicensed, ill-equipped NGOs (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Life Esidimeni inquest postponed until August 30

The lawyer for the bereaved families argued that Dr Makgabo Manamela’s requests for postponements have a negative impact on the families of the deceased who seek closure

The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

IEC to ask the courts to postpone local elections

The chairperson of the Electoral Commission of South Africa said the Moseneke inquiry found that the elections would not be free and fair if held in October

Hundreds of South African members of the non-governmental organisation Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protest outside the Life Esidimeni arbitration public hearing on January 22, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
At least 143 mentally ill patients died after South African authorities moved them in 2016 from hospital to unlicensed health facilities that were compared to “concentration camps”, a government investigation revealed on January 17, 2018. Many of the deaths were due to pneumonia, dehydration and diarrhoea, as the patients were hurriedly shifted to 27 “poorly-prepared” facilities in an apparent cost-cutting measure that showed evidence of neglect.  / AFP PHOTO / GIANLUIGI GUERCIA        (Photo credit should read GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

Poor government decisions caused Life Esidimeni deaths, inquest hears

Health officials pushed ahead with transferring patients to ill-equipped NGO facilities despite several warnings

The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Can South Africa conduct electronic elections?

Submissions to the inquiry into elections under Covid-19 call for local government polls to run as scheduled, or move online

The inquiry into ensuring free and fair local government elections later this year, headed by retired deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke, has received about 3 000 voice and written submissions from the public, the inquiry said on Tuesday.  (Photo by Trevor Kunene/Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

Oral submissions to inquiry on local government elections start next week

The hearings will be open to the media and the public, under strict level-three regulations

(Jabu Kumalo/Gallo)

South Africa’s mental health facilities are ailing

The Human Rights Commission has found a lack of staff, beds and clean, secure facilities plague institutions across the country, leaving patients unable to access the help they…