Powerful and chilling presentations by South Africa's legal team before the ICJ. I found the presentation by Thembeka Ngcukaitobi on Israel's genocidal intent (the most difficult aspect of the case) was particularly chilling.
Pierre de Vos ⚖️
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Pierre de Vos ⚖️
@pierredevos
Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. You need to read.
- Lwando and I celebrating our 10 year anniversary today. Life is beautiful. (Twitter is not life.)
- Point to ponder: The lawyers who advised former President Zuma on his all out attack on the judiciary an the rule of law are not the ones going to jail.
- No, I am the professor of Constitutional Law (Do my BComm, LLB, two LLM's and PhD count as qualifications?)Replying to @pierredevosYou're the legal journalist without any law qualifications ?
- It’s a criminal offence for landlords and estate agents to discriminate against black applicants, and it is time to prosecute and punish them harshly tinyurl.com/ydo3umlp
- One cannot "run for president" in South Africa, only for seats in the National Assembly. Voters do not elect the president, the National Assembly does.I am running for president of South Africa. We can’t have thugs running this nation. We can’t have racists running this nation and we can’t have angry dictators running this country. We need visionary and ethical leadership driven by a deep love for all South Africans.
00:00 - 🔒The kind of approach taken by judge President Mbenga's defence counsel Muzi Sikhakhane is re-traumatising the victim. It discourages many women from reporting harassment and abuse for fear of being subject to ridicule and disrespect. news24.com/news24/opinion…
- Just in: Julius Malema 'temporarily suspended' from Twitter
- High Court #AceMagashule: ANC decision to suspend Magashule was lawful in all respects. Application dismissed.
- Please, please, whoever decides about these things, let the world champ Springboks visit these kids on their victory tour. And don’t forget die stoepe either. ❤️For South Africa.❤️🏆
00:00 - Musk’s AI Grok bot rants about non-existing ‘white genocide’ in South Africa in unrelated chats. Chatbot goes on hours-long fritz, repeatedly mentioning ‘white genocide’, which it is ‘instructed to accept as real’.
- #JacobZuma Khampepe: Zuma sentenced to an unsuspended prison sentence of a period of 15 months -although this cannot capture the damage Zuma had done to the judiciary...
- Fun fact: Mr Zuma was found guilty of the crime of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. On an ordinary reading of section 47 of the Constitution, he would therefore not be eligible to stand for election to the National Assembly.
