Page 12 - Edwin Cameron News Today

‘Punishment is deprivation of liberty, it’s not the humiliation of overcrowding, abuse and other malpractices in prisons,’ Judge Edwin Cameron told attendees on the opening night of the powerful ‘The ties that bind us’ photographic exhibition.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana will table the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament; Ilifa Labantwana is hosting a virtual conversation about public funding for early childhood development; and the 8th African Women Writers’ Symposium is kicking off with the Nadine Gordimer in Me...

The national overcrowding rate in South African prisons is now 31.65%, versus the 2020/2021 rate of 23%. And there are about 18,000 prisoners serving life sentences, as opposed to just 400 in 1995.

Feeling slighted is not a sufficient reason to have someone’s view of you, either in the form of a column or a work of art, censored.

My Land Obsession has catalysed me to do more of my own work with sustainable land reform in mind. The clarity and conviction she brings to the topic breaks the paralysis-analysis that had made it a distant topic, removed from our lives.

What did a boy who grew up on a mealie farm do to build such a fortune? Read an excerpt from Koos Bekker’s Billions:

The VIP cocktail party was the sparkly bit of a months-long programme of events to celebrate Wits University's centennial.

Healthcare worker Liberia Salasa has written a response to Judge Edwin Cameron who is of the view that prisoners are often overlooked in an unequal health system.

South Africans need to frame gender-based violence as an endemic social condition that they can stop through deliberate action. 

Judge Fayeeza Kathree-Setiloane ordered to email ConCourt justices and clerks correcting wrong impression that her clerk made an error.