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Judge Hlophe yesterday appeared before the JSC. If you don’t know it, the controversial Judge is under consideration for a post on the Constitutional Court. But proceedings were halted yesterday. The Business day reports on the JSC bust up that followed Hlophe’s appearance:
When JSC member and Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille asked Hlophe to [...]

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Slowly international papers with a proud history of covering South Africa, like the Guardian, is catching up with the real events in the country.
With regards to xenophobic murders they were only about two years late (if you take a charitable view and ignore the fact that it had taken place for many years).
Yesterday they featured [...]

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Eudy Simelane
Last Sunday, a South African Sunday paper published a homophobic polemic by a veteran and well known journalist John Qwelane.
In it, Qwelane was asking for ‘a politician with balls’ to change the constitution to ban gay marriage and equating marrying a same sex partner with marrying a goat. He went on to [...]

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