Month: August 2022

  • Gate-keeping the Noble Profession: A Postscript

    Gate-keeping the Noble Profession: A Postscript

    A dark day eclipsed over the lives of non-South African lawyers and law graduates on the 2nd of August 2022. On that day, the Constitutional Court handed down its judgment in Relebohile Cecilia Rafoneke and Others v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services and Others [2022] ZACC 29, the case that held the ambitions and…

  • A Dilemma for the ages: Franchise cricket v International Cricket

    A Dilemma for the ages: Franchise cricket v International Cricket

    We are quite far removed from the infamous sandpaper-gate scandal of Cape Town 2018. On that fateful cloudy Saturday at the Newlands Cricket Ground with the 4-match series evenly poised at 1-1, the cricketing world stood still, and all eyes were fixed on the big screen as Cameron Bancroft a rookie by all measures appeared…