Beatrice Mtetwa is a Zimbabwe-based lawyer who graduated from the then University of Botswana and Swaziland with an LLB degree in 1981 and entered private practice in Harare in 1990. She is known for taking on high-profile human-rights cases involving activists who have challenged the Zimbabwean authorities, this resulting in her harassment by State agents […]
Dr Mpumelelo Mkhabela is a political analyst who had a successful career as a journalist and editor. He edited some of South Africa’s iconic publications, Daily Dispatch and the Sowetan, after serving as parliamentary writer for Sunday publications, City Press and the Sunday Times. Mkhabela, who briefly taught courses in Political Science at the University
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Kate Hofmeyr is a senior counsel practising at the Johannesburg and Cape Bars. She has a varied practice with a particular focus on public law. She has appeared in the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Appeal, Competition Appeal Court and numerous High Courts throughout her career. She has also appeared before the London Court of
Ezra Davids, an alumnus of the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Harvard Law School Executive Programme, is Chairman and Senior Partner at the African law firm Bowmans, specialising in M&A, capital markets and securities law, and is also the relationship partner for a number of the firm’s major clients. He is a regular contributor
Hugh Corder is a law graduate of Cape Town, Cambridge and Oxford. After starting his academic career lecturing at Stellenbosch University, he held the Chair of Public Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT) from 1987 to 2019 and is now Professor Emeritus of Public Law. He served two terms as Dean of Law
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Recently retired as a judge of South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal, Azhar Cachalia remains committed to safeguarding constitutionalism, non-racialism and the rule of law against their many threats. Pre-democracy, as a founder and leading member of the United Democratic Front and its long-term national treasurer, he paid his dues in terms of detentions and
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