I’m a huge fan of obituaries. To read about an extraordinarily life explored and laid out in 800 words or so is fascinating and obits are also an art form. Chris Barron at the Sunday Times is my favourite obit writer in South Africa and, as far as I know, the only one. Politicsweb has [...]
What Justice Seagroatt said
April 30, 2009 8 Comments
Thank you for your e-mail of today with copy of James Myburgh’s article in ‘South Africa at a Glance’. Now I know that it is nothing to do with Am Kau Han’s case the picture is clearer. I have a keen recollection of my decision in the Lee Ming Tee case in which the Court [...]
Five things you need to know about SA on 15/4/2009
April 15, 2009 Leave a Comment
1. The NPA is saying it’s no biggie that its acting director Mokotedi Mpshe plagiarised parts of his historic decision to drop the charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma from a six-year-old ruling by a Hong Kong judge. Everyone’s got the story but here’s what the NPA sposkesman told The Star: We are recognising that [...]
Could Mpshe have plagiarised THE statement?
April 14, 2009 2 Comments
Eagle-eyed James Myburgh at Politics.web is asking whether acting NPA head Moketedi Mpshe’s statement on dropping the charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma is plagarisied. What raised the alarm for this seasoned hack is that many of the cases cited in Msphe’s decision are in fact British and not South African. And after a little [...]
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