The absence of reliable quantitative data makes it difficult – if not impossible – to hold Home Affairs, the police and other state entities to account.
Frene Ginwala addressing the media in 2017, tireless in her fight for justice.
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A historian counters the popular view that the 1989 collapse of the Berlin Wall set in motion talks to end apartheid. The process was unstoppable by then.
Protesters demonstrate outside the high court in Cape Town against parole for Janusz Walus.
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Parliament’s failure to live up to its constitutional mandate was noted by the State Capture Commission as having enabled former president Zuma’s regime to corrupt state behaviour with ease.
Traditional courts don’t reflect indigenous ways of dispute resolution.
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Referenda may well have a place in the country’s democracy, but if the form of an electoral system can be referred to a referendum, why not capital punishment, abortion or LGBT rights?
Judge President of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, Mandisa Maya.
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It is important to embrace all the nation’s languages in a multilingual and multicultural society. This will ensure they are used, developed and mainstreamed.
The government had many years to ensure a smooth transition from analogue to digital television but failed.
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People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
A memorial in Orlando West, Soweto, honouring the victims of the massacre of school children by apartheid police.
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The whole idea behind independent candidates is the hope that their inclusion might improve the accountability of parliamentarians to the voters. The bill doesn’t do that.
Raymond Zondo, South Africa’s new chief justice.
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Zondo’s career is made up of a tapestry of highlights, from lawyer to senior judge. He has written more than 200 judgments.
Prince Misuzulu, second from the left, attends the provincial memorial service for his mother, the late Mantfombi Dlamini, at the Khangelakamankegane Royal Palace in Nongoma, in May 2021.
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When judges, legislators, and policymakers neglect the foundational dynamics of indigenous customs, they worsen conflict between indigenous laws and state laws.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela on his 91st birthday in 2009.
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