Judith February

1 month ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Judith February

In his production “Waiting for the Sibyl”, the artist William Kentridge reflects on the Cumaean Sibyl, who wrote fates on oak leaves. A swirling wind scattered them, blurring destinies — an image echoed in Dante’s “Paradiso” as pages forming his book. We live in a noisy and boundaryless world. Anything can be said or done. Everything is happening at once and at breakneck speed. Don't want to see this? Remove adsWould that we knew the world’s fate at this fraught moment.

1 month ago | ewn.co.za | Judith February

Transition: "The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another."The word has an effortless ring to it, as if a country can simply move from one state of being to another and that all the centuries of conflict can simply vanish at the stroke of a pen. As our country navigates the tricky waters of coalition government, it seems as if we are yet again in very complex territory, this time without the wisdom of our 1990s leadership.

1 month ago | ewn.co.za | Judith February

As we reflect on Human Rights Day, with human rights feeling like a luxury in a country with deepening inequality, rising poverty and stubbornly high levels of unemployment, it is crucial that we hold government to account for realising rights and that our democratic institutions are strengthened to do so. In 2007, South Africa’s Parliament formed a committee to review the country’s ‘Chapter 9’ and associated institutions tasked with supporting human rights, democracy and accountability.

1 month ago | ewn.co.za | Judith February |Chris Oxtoby

Recently, the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) found, by majority decision, that complaints against retired KwaZulu-Natal High Court Judge Anton van Zyl could not be referred to a Judicial Conduct Tribunal. This means that the judge cannot be impeached, but will rather face an inquiry, following which a range of lesser sanctions – such as an apology, a written warning, compensation, counselling, or attendance at a training course, could be imposed.

2 months ago | dailymaverick.co.za | Judith February |Chris Oxtoby

GroundUp reported on 4 March that the Judicial Conduct Committee (JCC) had found, by majority decision, that complaints against the retired KwaZulu-Natal High Court judge Anton van Zyl could not be referred to a judicial conduct tribunal. This means that the judge cannot be impeached, but will rather face an inquiry, following which a range of lesser sanctions — such as an apology, a written warning, compensation, counselling or attendance at a training course — could be imposed.