Richard Spoor
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Is a public Interest lawyer with a special interest in land reform, mines and communities and compensation for occupational diseases. Militant non-racialist.
White River, South Africa
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Some life advice from Walt Whitman:
“Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.”
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A terribly sad story. Two young and idealistic lawyers, get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement. In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it. Now they face a minimum 35 years in a federal prison.
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I am pleased to confirm that it’s true that Minister Mantashe is/was being treated in a public hospital. He is setting a great example.✊🏽
The Hon. Gwede did get a bit of a fright when he learned that the Dr treating him was my son.
Get well soon Minister, you are in good hands.
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My only nephew and his small family on their way. It is South Africa’s loss and New Zealand’s gain.
Makes me very sad. ☹️
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Well, that was a very impressive and dignified response by Israel. The confidence we had coming out of yesterday’s hearing has pretty much evaporated. It does appear that SA’s case was light on hard evidence.
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I learned this evening that my youngest son Matthew got the job! He is going to Antarctica as resident engineer on the SANAE base.
I am so pleased and so proud. ✊🏽
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The pool that the eThekwini Municipality built for R15 million.
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Bheki Cele’s father was “a senior Induna at the South African Railways”, his mother died when he was only 9 months old. Why did the minister feel the need to lie about his parents?
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The collapse of Eskom is no different to the collapse of the policing, health and education systems, except that it feels more real and immediate, the lights go off and the factories shut down.
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Clicks will get their interdict this morning, if the haven’t got it already. It won’t stop the riot but it will ensure that the CIC and his party pay a heavy, heavy price. If things go the way the EFF plan, it could bankrupt the party and see its leaders in jail.
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Funny how good the SAPS are at enforcing lockdown regulations but how bad they are at dealing with real crimes and corruption.
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It is best not to fix the railways because that would be bad for the trucking industry, says Transnet CEO.
Like decent public transport is bad for the taxi industry, and piped water is bad for water tanker entrepreneurs.
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Oh dear, did we annoy the US by cosying up to Putin and endorsing his imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine?
Did government imagine that their would be no consequences?
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The EFF came out in their numbers in Mbombela today. ✊🏽
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Today I advised a client, whose elderly parent died of Covid 19 to draw down her modest savings before the bank learns that she has died. I told him it wasn’t strictly lawful but the prospect of that money being tied up for years while the Master ties things up is worse.
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Fired as DDG for stealing 3 tons of abalone and rehired to a top position as head of a department five days later.
The ANC cannot be redeemed, it is rotten to the core and it has no interest in changing its culture of sleaze, crime and unaccountability.
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In this difficult and challenging time, my thoughts are with the virus
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@FLOTUS
and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!
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60% of all tax revenues go to pay the salaries and perks of 1.2-million public servants, they comprise a mere 2.2% of the population.
Whose interests does the state serve?
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This is not an order that Israel can refuse to comply with. Beautifully finessed, a diplomatic masterpiece.
The level of consensus among the judges of the court is extraordinary.
A very impressive victory for SA and the international rule of law. ✊🏽
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I don’t understand it. The saboteur De Ruyter has gone, the new Minister of Electricity has spent a month touring every power station in the country, to motivate the workers and to fix the things that are broken, and yet, here we are without power for 8 hours each day?
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A person can’t help wondering what goes on in the mind of a person who imagines that she and her colleagues are entitled, based on their personal whims, to decide for 30 million adults whether they may drink alcohol or not. What are we, that we tolerate such extraordinary abuse?
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@Africa_Archives
The diamond belonged to the owner of the mine, where it was dug up. It was purchased by the SA government and donated to Edward VII. Elizabeth II inherited it. It was never stolen.
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You get stupid, you get very stupid, very very stupid, and then you get the decision of the SA government to supply arms to Russia. ✊🏽
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Grateful for the opportunity to have been able to spend some time in conversation with former President Zuma.
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Dali Mpofu finally won a case on behalf of a client who starved her workers and her farm animals to death.✊🏽
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We stand to lose between 3 and 7 million jobs yet NDZ’s priority is to stop us smoking, Bheki Cele’s is to stop us drinking, Ebrahim Patel’s is to stop e-commerce, Kubayi-Ngubane’s is to ensure that white businesses don’t get any aid and Cyril is on the phone calling up despots.
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Zweli Mkhize has appointed his neice as Chief of Staff in the Department of Health. This after she was implicated in steering loans ofR6 billion to her lover and taking large kickbacks, while she worked at the PIC. This government isn’t serious.
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Spent the last four days travelling the back roads of North West and Northern Cape, now in the Western Cape. The difference is striking. Small towns in the NW and NC are dirty and decayed, potholed and filthy. In the WC the opposite. ANC governance is the real National Disaster.
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A former CEO of PRASA who was fired after bumping up his own salary from R1.3 million to R5.9 million per annum is going to head up the embattled RAF. This bodes well.
The Road Accident Fund would like to extend a warm welcome to Mr Collins Letsoalo as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Fund. The RAF is honoured to have you and wish you all the best on your new journey.
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Bheki Cele’s statements about alcohol and crime and his statements that he wishes alcohol could be prohibited even after lockdown suggest that he is using the lockdown to achieve other objectives is indicative of an abuse of power.
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Evidence that the SA complaint before the ICJ is effective.
Netanyahu says that he doesn’t want to displace Gaza’s civilian population or permanently occupy Gaza.
He’s stating this clearly for the first time as some of the folks in the coalition say very incendiary things publicly.
This comes ahead of the public hearings at the…
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Between them SAB and Consol have scrapped R7.5bn in investments because of the liquor ban.
How detached, aloof, smug and self righteous do you have to be, to be indifferent to the appalling impact of the alcohol ban on the unemployed, workers, small business and the economy?
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We ought to be clear on a few things:
1. Foreigners did not cause the failure of Eskom and other SOE’s.
2. Foreigners are not responsible for the state of our roads, rail and harbour infrastructure.
3. Foreigners are not responsible for the failures of our municipalities.
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Covid deaths are stable at around 20 per day, murders are at 60. Where is the emergency?
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”It is truly an incapable state. It can’t fly an airline, deliver a letter, fill a pothole, pick up litter or mow the lawn. It can’t provide water, oxygen, personal protective equipment or live doctors and nurses to its hospitals. On top of this pile, sits Cyril Ramaphosa.”
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Client, a young woman, is hijacked, driven about in her car for hours, viciously beaten and forced to draw money from an ATM. Locked in a room overnight she manages to escape in the morning, finds her way to a police station to report what happened.
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Someone should tell Bheki Cele that the fact that the ConCourt has agreed to hear Zuma’s application for rescission, does not suspend the order of imprisonment and that he must still be arrested and imprisoned pending the hearing and a decision.
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My neighbour is a water engineer. He has just come back from a three year stint in the Cook Islands helping improve water infrastructure. He went because he can’t get work here; he is a pale male.
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A nation of thieves.
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Fellow knows nothing about the business of Eskom, even less about electricity generation. Starts his term of office with a walkabout tour of the power stations, chats to the workers and some of the managers. Now he has things all worked out. Man’s a fucking genius. ✊🏽
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It’s pretty amazing how the taxi mafia are able to mobilise a more effective response to the looting and unrest than the SAPS.
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Every time I am pushed off the road by a howling convoy of traffic police, black BMW’s and Merc’s I am reminded how arrogant, entitled and obscenely privileged the ruling political elite are.
Comrade this and comrade that, my ass. Fuck’em.
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Here is a plan. Stop issuing new taxi licenses. Reduce the number by half over the next 5 years to give a municipal bus and train service a chance.
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Try spending three weeks at home if you are living like this.
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It was a toy gun says Julius.
Seriously dude!
Take responsibility for what you did. It’s one thing to put the State to the proof of their case, it’s another thing to flat out lie.
Now everyone knows that you are both a liar and a coward.
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The 5 km and 6-9 am jogging rule is based on the latest scientific research. Scientists warn that if people run further or exercise in the afternoons millions will die.
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Anyone notice how the President and his ministers never subject themselves to questioning by the media over lockdown or anything else. It’s only ever briefings and set speeches. We have a one way traffic type democracy.
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Some times I just lie on my bed and wonder how 60 million South Africans allowed themselves to be subjected to a night curfew, so that its a crime for them to leave their homes at night and the police can stop them, interrogate them and arrest them. How TF did that happen?
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Anyone who believes that a curfew, enforced by police and army, is an appropriate response to a health emergency has little respect for themselves and non for their fellow citizens.
It’s completely unacceptable.
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Most people, even good ones, do something stupid sometime. When that results in the ruining of their otherwise good and productive lives, it’s tragic. I have seen it many times. In legal systems like ours it can be mitigated, but in the US with harsh minimum sentences it can not.
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Xenophobia suits the ANC government very well. A narrative that foreigners are to blame for poverty, unemployment, urban decay, corruption, drugs, crime, a declining health service and every other social problem, diverts from its responsibility for these evils.
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Level 5 load shedding used to annoy me, but now that I understand, as the Minister of Electricity has explained, that it is caused by Eskom’s failure to generate enough electricity I don’t mind as much. ✊🏽
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If you want to see your parents or relatives during lock down please arrange to meet them at the movies, a restaurant or at church. It’s a crime to visit them at their homes.
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This is Neo Mokoena. He is 14 years old and he is hitchhiking home to Phalaborwa from Mbombela. I gave him a lift, a small part of the way, a loaf of white bread, a bar of chocolate and 100 bucks. I wished him well.
He gave me a hug in return, which really was not necessary.
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Our very good dog Laika passed today. Never a kinder or more lovely soul.
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The Constitutional Court’s handling of the Zuma matter has been a comedy of errors. First, after Zuma ignored a summons to appear before Zondo, it permitted the Commission to approach it for an order directing Zuma to appear. It should have told Zondo to approach the High Court.
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The way to offset the legacy of apartheid spatial planning is to provide cheap and efficient public transport. Unfortunately the taxi bosses are having none of that, they burn busses and tear up the train networks to maximise their profits. The ANC government looks on.
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When there is no law that prohibits you selling prepared food or cigarettes, but you face arrest and the confiscation of your property if you do. Then you must know that our democracy and the rule of law are in great danger.
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Yo, people are harsh. So many supporters of hangings, amputations and lengthy prison sentences.
Me, I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. I have defended murderers and child abusers and I have never found mercy to be inappropriate.
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The curfew is the most arbitrary, draconian and likely unconstitutional aspect of the new lockdown. Freedom of movement is a fundamental right. If I choose to walk my dog after 9 or rise at 5 to go for a jog, I pose no danger to anyone. There are no good grounds to prohibit that.
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Pravin has been Minister of Public Enterprises for the last five years. It has been a catastrophically bad time for public enterprises. The fact is that the man is a completely useless executive, he should retire.
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The Minister of Defence, Ms Thandi Modise, has assured the Polish authorities that there is “fokol” in these SAA cargo containers headed to St Petersburg. ✊🏽
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A warning to pit bull owners and the owners of large and dangerous dogs in general. If your dog attacks and maims or kills anyone, you are strictly liable for the harm caused. You will lose your house, your car, everything. This holds even if the victim entered your property.
Police are investigating an incident in which a pitbull mauled to death an 8 year old boy at his home in Vista Park, Bloemfontein
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The Presidency has confirmed that at the time of the alleged assault, the Deputy President’s vehicles doors were shut and the engine and air conditioning were running, so he could not have heard the screaming. Mr Mashatile believed that his protectors were taking a comfort break.
ANC: Mashatile should not be held accountable for his protectors' actions
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Good news smokers, cigarettes are pouring across the Mozambique and Swaziland borders as fast as you can bribe a customs officer. Soon at a dealer near you. The drought is broken. Amandla Awethu!
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Police in the US (population 328million) kill about 1000 people per year. Police in South Africa (population 59 million) kill about 500 per year. This means that pro rata our police kill about 5 times as many people as police in the US do. Which country has the bigger problem?
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In breaking news, the President condemns successful countries who plan properly.
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The hijacker visits her at the police station to threaten her further and to demand her bank card pin. Police try to extort money from her, telling her to give them money if she wants to be released on bail. This is how women are treated in the criminal justice system.
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About 301,000 people fell ill with TB in South Africa in 2018 resulting in 63,000 deaths. TB spreads the same way Covid-19 does and the disease disproportionately targets the poor. But no one ever suggested a lockdown.
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We must be the only country in the world where the Speaker of Parliament starved her pigs to death.
Inspirational leadership. ✊🏽
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Speaking for myself, I would rather see Jacob in prison than testifying before the Zondo Commission.
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We must have the most useless police force in the world.
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When we advertised for two candidate attorney positions, we had more than 370 law graduates applying. We also received over 170 applications for two para-legal positions. Makes me very sad that there are so many talented and hardworking young people without jobs.
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I must be honest, on these cold dark winter evenings, when the power is out, it is really hard to maintain one’s good spirits. Then, when the darkness and despair sweeps over me, I wish our top leaders were dead. ☹️
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The casual matter of fact acceptance, at the very highest levels of government, that ANC ministers and their cronies will take a cut from any moneys allocated to address the energy crises, is absolutely breathtaking.
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The case against Zizi Kodwa is a lot stronger than the case against Jacob Zuma.
LIVE | Evidence shows Zizi Kodwa received 'direct payments and luxury accommodation' worth more than R2m
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I would really like to see a documentary that gives us a glimpse into Cyril’s day to day life. Leisurely breakfasts, mid morning tea and scones, luncheon prepared by a top chef, a quick afternoon power nap, brainstorming over drinks with Gwede and Fikile, a light dinner and bed.
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In Puerto Rico people are without electricity, food and water because they were hit by a hurricane, here it’s the same, except we were hit by the ANC. ✊🏽
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Now the bricks under the M2 are being stolen. We are an enterprising nation if nothing else. ✊🏽
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@NOELreports
On behalf of all South Africans I apologise for the fact that our government invited the war criminal Lavrov to this country. It has brought great shame on us. We are not like that.
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Another interesting case, a single man dies, his rather messy and complex estate is worth R40 million.
12 years later the executors, lawyers, curators, trustees and sundry legal parasites have devoured the lot, his next of kin didn’t get a cent. Seems to be a common occurrence.
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If you have had your first Pfizer jab and then get Covid, they call it Covid-lite. That’s what I got. I have been banished to the spare room and confined to a very tiny single bed, which I share with a very fat cat. In all other respects, I am well cared for and doing great.✊🏽
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There are nearly 1.4 billion Africans, of whom only 77 million (6%) are vaccinated, yet the dominant narrative, here and elsewhere, is all about shaming, isolating and excluding the unvaccinated. It’s a special form of bigotry.
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Great news!
It’s official, bread, pies, pizza and roasted chickens may now be sold once they have cooled to room temperature.
However, it remains a criminal offense to sell such products if they are still warm from the oven.
We are led. ✊🏽
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Q. “What do you call a socialist politician who travels in a car worth R800 000 with his R124 000 Louis Vuitton luggage, while wearing red overalls to signify solidarity with the poorest in society?”
A. Floyd Shivambu.
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Johannesburg, Ekhuruleni, eThekwini, wherever the EFF is part of a governing coalition, the city has gone downhill so fast it makes one’s head spin. They are a recipe for disaster. Forget water, electricity, refuse removal, they will collapse and destroy everything.
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The clowns who lead us. Things really are this bad.
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If it has been proven again and again, that the ANC cannot run a municipality, why would you imagine that they can run a country?
Everything you need to know about the ANC is in the AG report.
Anything it governs, will collapse in a morass of corruption & incompetence.
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Lifting the restrictions on the numbers of persons allowed in a taxi seems reasonable, just as long as we maintain the ban on joggers and bicycling we should still be good.
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Listening to the Deputy Minister of Intelligence Zizi Kodwa on SAFM, we learn that he is a complete idiot.
God help us.
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The view from my stoep during load shedding. I remain so very grateful for everything I have, my home, my family, my life. Peace to you all.
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There are a million car guards, hawkers and casual labourers who are going to go hungry and their dependents too. This is a catastrophe that we are not ready for.
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The Defence Act, 2002 stipulates that “any person who, without authority, possesses or wears prescribed uniforms distinctive marks or crests, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years”.
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Dali Mpofu is the General Council of the Bar’s representative on the Judicial Services Commission, which chooses our judges.
Reflect on that for a minute.
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176 people were killed in the June ‘76 Soweto uprising.
Well over 200 have been killed so far in the Great July ‘21 Zuma / RET uprising.
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