Table of Contents: Vol 35 • No 1 • April 2022
Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Craig Watt-Pringle SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Sascha e Camara
Free State: Inga Macakati
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Michael Williams KwaZulu-Natal: Carol Sibiya, Sarah Pudifin-Jones and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Esi Schimming-Chase
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Port Elizabeth: Morné Olivier
Pretoria: Alex Politis
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Editorial
- Page 1 From the Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
Chair’s contribution
- Page 3 Stand up and be counted
GCB & National News
- Page 5 Advocates for Transformation – Update from the National Chairperson
- Page 7 Media release on Minister Sisulu’s comments on the judiciary
- Page 8 Media release on the treatment of candidates in JSC interviews
- Page 9 Wallenberg 2022
Bar News
- Page 12 Cape Bar
- Page 14 Free State Bar
- Page 19 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 23 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 25 Pretoria Bar
- Page 28 Limpopo Bar
Forum
- Page 30 Our book of redemption: On the origins of Constitution as an agent for social change – by Tembeka Ngcukaitobi
- Page 37 Making space for transformation: Property law and the Constitution as an agent for social change – by Stuart Wilson
- Page 46 The Constitutional Court and competition law – by DM Davis
- Page 52 On the relation between law and justice – by Quentin du Plessis
- Page 54 The Constitutional Court – Looking back and looking forward: The ghost of Phila Ndwandwe – by Mariq Van Der Westhuizen
- Page 58 Confessions and a fair trial – by Richard Brooks
Law Matters
- Page 65 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 68 Fly on the Wall