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PHOTO: Marco Longari/AFP The trauma of both the Covid-19 illness and death, and the securitisation and militarisation of this public health emergency, will for years be marked on bodies and communities, writes Edwin Cameron. Soon a sombre anniversary will fall on our country.  This week, its a year since 11 March 2020, when the World Health Organisation first declared Covid-19 a pandemic.  On 15 March 2020, President Ramaphosa declared Covid a national disaster.  A couple days after our n...

In this episode of Hanging out with Clement, Justice Edwin Cameron speaks about his career, schooling years and family.

Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yemen, a small republic in the southern Arabian Peninsula. This according to an investigation by NPO Open Secrets titled “Profiting from...

Exposed: South Africa’s role in Yemeni civil conflict’s humanitarian crisis © Copyright (c) Daily Maverick , All Rights Reserved Since the outbreak six years ago of the bitter regionalised war in Yemen resulting in a desperate humanitarian crisis, South African arms companies, including Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM), have profited handsomely from the sale of weapons to parties central to the conflict. In doing so RDM may be guilty of contributing to gross human rights violations in Yem...

An East Devon charity dedicated to beating rural isolation through affordable transport, specialised disability equipment and a befriending service, has launched a funding drive to buy an electric vehicle.

Lwando Xaso on writing ‘Made in South Africa’ By Lwando Xaso - 15 February 2021 This book was inspired by a deep desire to be in conversation with the country that has defined who I am.     For so long I was a passive participant in the affairs of my country. I was an observer too timid to speak up. Too doubtful of my own opinions and deferring to those who I thought knew best. I held back, thinking it was not my place to contribute to our national discourse. I thought one ha...

Dr Vera Wülfing-Leckie obituary After the nuclear incident at Chernobyl, Vera Wülfing-Leckie came to see her future as being in the southern hemisphere After the nuclear incident at Chernobyl, Vera Wülfing-Leckie came to see her future as being in the southern hemisphere RossLeckie Mon 8 Feb 2021 15.05 EST Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 15.07 EST Vera Wülfing-Leckie, my former wife, who has died aged 66, was a lover of Africa, a homeopath and a translator. Vera’s father had be...

Joanne A top barrister has said she will not withdraw from a legal case defending traditional marriage, despite receiving “pressure in the form of abuse and threats”. Dinah Rose QC is representing the Government of the Cayman Islands as it seeks to uphold the definition of marriage as being only between one man and one woman. Activists have claimed that Rose’s involvement makes her unfit for her role as President of Magdalen College, Oxford – a position she was appointed to last year. C...

By Jemma Slingo2021-01-29T11:38:00+00:00 A leading QC has refused to step down from a case in which she will represent the government of the Cayman Islands, saying she will not succumb to ‘threats of adverse publicity’. Dinah Rose QC, a barrister at Blackstone Chambers and president of Magdalen College, Oxford, is to represent the Cayman government at an appeal before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Counsel in London in less than four weeks. The case concerns same-sex marriage in the ...

Inmates comprise a vulnerable group in society and they are meant to receive Covid-19 vaccines earlier than the general population. This has sparked debate locally and globally.