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Picture: Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Dikgang Moseneke, courtesy University of Maryland
At a public discussion on the land question in Johannesburg on Friday, February 27, Dikgang Moseneke, the Deputy Chief Judge of the Constitutional Court, began his remarks with a well-known quote from Frantz Fanon: “For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”
He spoke about the centrality of the land question to the struggle against apartheid and argued that, contrary to much of the bluster that often surrounds the issue of land, the Constitution does allow for expropriation and does not make land reform impossible. He noted that neither the phrase ‘willing buyer, willing seller’, nor the logic behind it, appear in the Constitution. The often strident misrepresentation o
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Justice Beverley McLachlin: A Remarkable Journey to the ‘Centre Chair’
Above: Beverley McLachlin, 17th Chief Justice of Canada (Photo bygd Roy Grogran, courtesy of the Supreme Court of Canada)
Beverley McLachlin, widely regarded as one of the best legal minds to take a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada, stood alone on stage at the Winspear Centre in Sidney, a quiet seaside town on Vancouver Island.
It was September 29, , and the (now retired) Right Honourable Chief Justice of Canada was in Sidney to promote her crime novel, Full Disclosure, and her memoir, Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law, both released in It was a crowded publication year. Canadian academics Ian Greene and Peter McCormick had also published Beverley McLachlin, The Legacy of a Supreme Court Chief Justice earlier in the summer.
In her customary self-effacing style, McLachlin shared her thoughts about growing up in the s and ’50s on a ranch nestled in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains of So
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The 5th Annual African Disability Rights Conference will be held from the 7th to the 8th of November at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa. This year’s conference will focus on the following themes:
- a) the implications of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) for the African region with particular reference to article 13, the right to access to justice and article 12, the right to equal recognition before the law;
- b) the development of mechanisms/strategies for the effective domestication and implementation of articles 12 and 13 of the CRPD and
- c) the interplay between article 13 and article 12 of the CRPD.
It is anticipated that papers presented at this conference will be reworked by authors and submitted for consideration for publication in the volume of the African Disability Rights Yearbook.
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