Dan Mafora

1 month ago | mg.co.za | Dan Mafora

Just before the long weekend, the Judge President Dunstan Mlambo of the Gauteng Division of the High Court, issued a draft directive on obligatory mediation together with a protocol for the directive’s implementation. The thrust of the directive is to make mediation mandatory for all parties seeking civil trial dates in the Gauteng division. It notes that the division is setting down civil trials as far ahead as 2031 and acknowledges that the situation is intolerable.

Feb 12, 2025 | mg.co.za | Dan Mafora

Martin van Staden’s screed, The Expropriation Act is necessarily unconstitutional’ published in the opinion section on the Mail & Guardian’s website on 29 January, is wrong. He alleges that the concept of “nil compensation” is an instance of parliament acting in fraudem legis (in fraud of the law), seeking to subvert the Constitution by setting up “a legalistic and formalistic ‘simulation’ to obscure and hide the substance or reality” of what it is doing.

Sep 30, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Dan Mafora |Sfiso Nxumalo

GOVERNMENT REGIMES OP-ED The creation of institutions with binding powers that exist outside of the control of the executive, legislature and judiciary is inimical to the idea of good government. Instead, it creates multiple tyrants, free from immediate accountability, each acting according to their own desire.

Jun 10, 2024 | africasacountry.com | Niall Reddy |Dan Mafora |William Shoki |Murray Hunter

Politics during apartheid had a certain straight-line simplicity. It was always pretty clear who the main enemy was. Things got scrambled with democratization. But a measure of simplicity was soon returned—at least for the outsider left. A neoliberal hegemonic bloc merged at the summit of power, binding old white business elites to an emergent “corporate black bourgeoisie” as Roger Southall put it. The battle lines were clear once again.

May 18, 2024 | timeslive.co.za | Dan Mafora

19 May 2024 - 00:00 On Tuesday, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will interview deputy chief justice Mandisa Maya for the position of chief justice, which Raymond Zondo will vacate in August this year. Maya, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s sole nominee for the country’s top judicial office, was the favourite in February 2022 when four candidates were interviewed, an occasion that marked yet another low point for the JSC...