Table of Contents: Vol 23 • No 1 • April 2010
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Anthea Platt, Ayesha Tiry, Dirk R van Zyl
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis, Kerusha Pilla
Namibia: Raymond Heathcote
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Press Statements
- Page 4: Press statement by the GCB on appointment of acting judge by Patric M Mtshaulana SC, chairman – 10 February 2010
- Page 5: Press statement by the GCB on the response to statement of Minister of Justice by Patric M Mtshaulana SC, chairman – 19 February 2010
Bar news
- Page 4: Young Leaders Symposium. Extracts from the report by Peter Makhambeni, Johannesburg Bar, on the Young Leaders Symposium held at Muldersdrift on 10 – 11 July 2009
- Page 5: National Bar Examination Board
- Page 6: Northern Cape: News by Lizanne van Niekerk, Northern Cape Bar – The Bar examination • Judiciary • Social events • North Cape Bar dinner
- Page 6: Cape: Cape Bar’s Scholarship for African women: ‘making our affirmative action policies real’ by Roseline Nyman, Cape Bar
- Page 8: Johannesburg: A Chamber for Duma Nokwe by Dirk van Zyl, Taryn Lipschitz and Natasha Simpson, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 10: Johannesburg: Josef Krüger, South African takes silk in Canada
- Page 12: Pretoria: News by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar – New silks / Nuwe senior aanstellings • The new intake • In memoriam • Waarnemende aanstellings
- Page 14: Pretoria: High Court Chambers by Mabel Jansen SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 15: Free State: News by Henriette Murray, Bloemfontein Bar – New judge • New silk: Paul Zietsman SC
Special issue: SA judiciary 100 years old
- Page 16: The Appellate Division: 1910 to 1948 by Ian Farlam, former judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 24: The apartheid era: 1948-1994 by Joos Hefer, former acting Chief Justice and former acting President of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 28: The Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Appeal by By Pius N Langa, retired Chief Justice of South Africa and Edwin Cameron, Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Page 34: The history of the Cape Provincial Division by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
- Page 36: One hundred years of the KwaZulu-Natal Bench by LB Broster SC, A Coutsoudis and AJ Chief Justice of South Africa and Edwin Cameron, Justice of the Constitutional Court of Boulle, Kwazulu-Natal Bar
- Page 40: The High Court of the Eastern Cape by SC Rorke and A Rawjee, members of the Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 42: Northern Cape High Court, Kimberley by Lizanne van Niekerk, Northern Cape Bar
- Page 45: Free State High Court, Bloemfontein: A brief history by Henriette Murray, Free State Bar
- Page 48: A short history of the North and South Gauteng High Courts by Pat Ellis SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 49: More on the South Gauteng Court by Dirk R van Zyl, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 50: Eastern Cape High Court, Mthatha by Mathobela Sishuba, Mthatha Bar
- Page 52: A brief history of the Eastern Cape High Court, Bhisho by CTS Cossie and TM Ntsabula, Bhisho Bar
- Page 53: North West High Court, Mafikeng (or what’s in a name?) by John Stander, Mafeking
Advertorial
- Page 37: Supporting the judiciary: Juta Law Publishing
- Page 43: LexisNexis – The Bar has been raised for online research
From the Publishers
Letter to the editor
Legal Crossword
- Page 55: Legal Crossword Number 10
- Page 56: Legal Crossword Number 10: Answers
Fly
- Page 56: Fly on the wall