The Legal Practice Bill, which creates a unified legal council for both advocates and attorneys, has been attacked by the Democratic Alliance as "fusion by stealth". This bill seems likely to be challenged in court should it pass in its present form. 

Paul Hoffman SC of the Institute of Accountability in Southern Africa has filed a complaint of gross misconduct against the Chief Justice of South Africa, Mogoeng Mogoeng, over what is alleged are racist and sexist remarks that could lead to his impeachment.

John Kane-Berman of the Institute of Race Relations says the reiteration of failed race policies in the National Development Plan and the amended Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) is nothing short of madness.
 

Yet another anti-corruption unit is proposed to tackle fraud and corruption in the public sector. But this one is different, and deserves public support, says David Lewis of Corruption Watch.

When asked to attend diversity and sexual harassment training at the university where he has taught for more than 30 years, Walter Williams kindly disobliged. He has happily practised discrimination throughout his working life, commencing with the selection of a woman to marry.

Herman Mashaba, chairman of the Free Market Foundation, outlines some simple steps to set South Africa on the path to greatness. It involves getting government out of the affairs of ordinary citizens, and restoring respect for the rule of law. 

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) founding manifesto is incoherent, contradictory and a recipe for war and famine. If even a part of this makes it into law, run for the hills. By Tom G Palmer.

Just when you thought you were getting on top of the ever-changing rules for black economic empowerment, the deck has been shuffled once again and new Codes of Good Practice have been published for comment. Jako Liebenberg explains what all this means. 

President Zuma has signed legislation paving the way for the creation of high courts in all nine provinces, while a bill has been tabled for the creation of a DNA database to fight crime. 

Thousands of people have been sent to prison - or Death Row - on the basis of a single fingerprint presented as evidence in court hearings. Many of them, it turns out, were wrongly convicted because of the courts' blind faith in the infallibility of forensics laboratories and witnesses.   

A silent revolution is taking place. When the regulatory over-burden becomes intolerable, people ignore those laws that inhibit their survival. The battle over e-tolling is an example of the silent revolution in action, and this is a battle government must win if it is to reclaim lost legitimacy, writes Ciaran Ryan

The jury is out on whether it is ethically appropriate for lawyers to set up companies to take legal cases on risk and share in the spoils, as happened when Pretoria attorney Chris Schoeman and two partners took on a case for former Vodacom employee Nkosana Makate, who is claiming he came up with the "Please Call Me" idea that was adopted by Vodacom but never got paid for it.  

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe may end up being hoist by his own petard as evidence of electoral fraud continues to pour in, writes Eddie Cross from Bulawayo. This leaves the South Africa government in a pickle, as it has already blessed what appears to be a fraudulent result.

Attorney SA Watson, an associate of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute SA, thinks South Africa is on a dangerous path. The Constitution, far from protecting us, turns “rights” into obligations and uses emotions and race to re-engineer society. 

SA must guard against the Zanufication of SA politics, writes Mamphela Ramphele. President Zuma's rush to endorse the disputed election in Zimbabwe, which saw Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF claim 61% of the vote, is a worrying sign of the general disregard for constitutional democracy that has taken root at home.

MDC representative Eddie Cross explains how the Zimbabwe election was stolen by Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF: by rigging the voters roll. Mass civil disobedience seems certain. The only question is whether MDC leaders will be able to contain the threats of armed insurgency that are surfacing in Zimbabwe.

The entire executive board of HSH Nordbank in Germany face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of breaching trust. This is one of several trials involving bankers in Europe, and reflects mounting fury over the conduct of banks leading up to the financial crisis in 2008.

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) representative Eddie Cross writes that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF Party, which has been in power for more than 30 years, is headed for electoral defeat. This time, they will find it more difficult to rig the outcome.

Modern schools emphasise victim propaganda, docility and acceptable behaviour, writes Fred Reed. The problem of "low academic standards" reportedly achieved by boys can be solved in 10 minutes: segregate boys and girls. 

A third lottery licence is on the table and it exposes in fine-grained detail how the government outlaws efficiency, innovation and competition, while encouraging stagnation, inefficiency and cronyism, writes Ivo Vegter in The Daily Maverick.

The National Development Plan talks loftily of achieving growth of 5,4% a year, and 11 million jobs by 2030, but is in reality a recipe for state intervention on a scale not previously imagined.