Urge for action on land reform

Read More The concerns and challenges of being an attorney in a practice that has been dominated by cases that involve land claims have, until now, largely been structural and political. These are cases where entities and families have bemoaned insecure land tenure, where land is needed for commercial purposes, together with eviction applications involving […]

Hurricane Ian Veers toward Carolinas After Pummeling Florida

A resurgent Hurricane Ian barreled north on Friday toward a second landfall in South Carolina, a day after carving a path of destruction across central Florida that left rescue crews racing to reach trapped residents along the state’s Gulf Coast.

Zaporizhzhia, 25 morti e 50 feriti dopo attacco missilistico a un convoglio umanitario

Read More Questa mattina un attacco missilistico ha colpito un convoglio umanitario civile in uscita da Zaporizhzhia. “Le persone erano in fila per lasciare il territorio temporaneamente occupato, per prendere i loro parenti e portarli via”, ha scritto su Telegram il capo regionale militare Oleksandr Starukh, citato da Unian. Venticinque persone sono state uccise e […]

Political parties in need of new, clean funding

Read More “Why hasn’t the EFF got any money?” A good question, posed by one of my students in an LLM class on the topic of the right of access to information, and one I will come back to. But first, the backstory.  To begin at the end of the tale, with the punchline, so […]

Johannesburg has a new sheriff in town – ANC takes over from the DA

Read More The ANC has reclaimed the City of Johannesburg after its regional chairperson Dada Morero, a councillor in the metro, was elected mayor on Friday.  Morero was nominated for the role after the Democratic Alliance walked out of a council meeting. His election came after DA mayor Mpho Phalatse was ousted in a motion […]

Putin annexes four regions of Ukraine in major escalation of Russia’s war

Read More Vladimir Putin has signed “accession treaties” formalising Russia’s illegal annexation of four occupied regions in Ukraine, marking the largest forcible takeover of territory in Europe since the second world war. The signing ceremony, held in defiance of international law, took place in the Grand Kremlin Palace in the presence of the country’s political […]