
Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Quentin du Plessis
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Loyiso Makapela
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Ahditya Kissoon Singh SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Gregory Solik
Free State: Amelia Swanepoel
Makhanda: Julian Barker
Johannesburg: Sibongile Mathe
KwaZulu-Natal: Nooreen Nursoo and Zandile Qono
Namibia:Retha Steinmann
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: Thabile Sebitlo
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Gqeberha: James Ramsay
Pretoria: Megan Moodley
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Editorial
- Page 1 From the Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this Issue
Chair’s contribution
- Page 3 Chair’s contribution
GCB & National News
- Page 6 Attending the 2024 GCB AGM
- Page 8 Statement by the General Council of the Bar of South Africa on the attempted assassination of Coreth Naude SC
To the editor
Bar News
- Page 11 Western Cape Bar
- Page 16 Free State Bar
- Page 22 Eastern Cape Bar
- Page 23 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 31 KwaZaul-Natal Bar
- Page 38 Pretoria Bar
Forum
- Page 57 Is the Judicial Service Commission “fit for purpose”? A Reflection over 15 years by Azhar Cachalia, retired Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 64 Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award: Acceptance remarks by Justice Edwin Cameron, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court
- Page 67 The Constitutional Court and its relation to specialist bodies by Dennis Davis, retired Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court
- Page 71 MTK Moerane SC: The most senior Black practising advocate in the RSA by Nokukhanya Cele, Durban Bar
From the publishers
- Page 75 From the publishers
Law Matters
- Page 77 Law matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 80 Fly on the Wall