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A Judiciary under Siege-Reflections from the JSC 2021 judges' interviews
This online discussion follows the research paper A Judiciary under Siege-Reflections from the JSC 2021 judges' interviews written by Azwimpheleli (Azwi) Langalanga. Our distinguished panellists will be responding to the research while stating some of the issues CASAC observes regarding challenges facing the judiciary in general.
The online discussion also aims to reflect on the reasons behind court actions and the panellists' academic views and personal experiences concerning the fact that the interviews will be held again.
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Nancy Msibi
Azwimpheleli Langalanga
Azwimpheleli Langalanga is a Political Economic Analyst. He researches and writes on the political economy of the law both at a domestic and global economic governance sphere. His other areas of interest include the politics of the law and the intersection between law, politics, and the economy. Mr. Langalanga is a non-resident fellow of the Mandela Institute for International Economic Law and Policy of the University of the Witwatersrand. He is also an Associate at the Economic Diplomacy Program of the South African Institute for International Affairs. Other areas of research interest are the use of law to settle political and economic questions. He holds a Master of International Law and Economics from the World Trade Institute in Bern and a Master of Laws in Labour Studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban.
Judith February
Judith February is a lawyer, governance specialist and columnist. She is a Visiting Fellow at the WITS School of Governance. Prior to that she was executive director of the HSRC’s Democracy and Governance unit and also head of the Idasa’s South African Governance programme for 9 years. She studied at the University of Cape Town where she obtained her BA degree (majoring in Law and Latin) and her LlB degree in 1991 and 1993 respectively. She was then admitted as an attorney in 1996 and practised law in Cape Town until 2000. In 2000 she obtained her LlM in Commercial Law also from the University of Cape Town. Judith has worked extensively on issues of good governance, transparency and accountability within the South African context. Her areas of focus include corruption and its impact on governance, Parliamentary oversight and institutional design. Judith is also a regular analyst in the media on politics in SA and served on an ad hoc panel to evaluate the effectiveness of South Africa’s Parliament, chaired by Pregs Govender in 2009. In 2009 she was awarded a summer fellowship at the Freeman Spogli Institute for Democracy Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, California. Her column, ‘Between the Lines’ appeared in the Cape Times newspaper fortnightly until 2014. Judith is a regular columnist for the Daily Maverick and other publications. Her fortnightly newsletter on law and politics, entitled, Judith’s Prudence appears in the Daily Maverick online. Judith is the co-editor with Neeta Misra-Dexter of ‘Testing democracy: which way is South Africa going?’, March 2010, Idasa. She has taught a course on Contemporary South African politics within the Politics Department at the University of Cape Town and is an independent, non-executive director of Coronation Fund Managers. In 2012, she was awarded a Spring Reagan-Fascell Fellowship at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC where she was based until August 2012. Judith is also a CONFLICT DYNAMICS accredited commercial mediator and has recently been appointed as a Trustee of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. She was also appointed to the Interim Board of Cricket South Africa between October 2020-June 2021. Her legal newsletter, ‘Judith’s Prudence’ appears in the Daily Maverick fortnightly. Her book, ‘Turning and turning exploring the complexities of South Africa’s democracy’ published by Pan MacMillan is available.
Lawson Naidoo
Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), an organisation committed to the principles of progressive constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. He has held this position since CASAC’s inception in 2010. He has worked as a strategic political consultant focusing on the spheres of anti-corruption and good governance. He is a regular media commentator on constitutional and legal issues. Lawson was recently appointed Chairperson of Cricket South Africa. He is a trustee of the Momentum Medical Scheme, and is the Chairman of its Governance & Remuneration Committee. He is a former trustee of the Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust, an NGO that focuses on providing scholarships to tertiary students and the promotion of human rights in southern Africa. Lawson is a Founding Partner at The Paternoster Group – African Political Insight, a consultancy focusing on political economy issues in South Africa. During 2007-08 he served as the Secretary of the Presidential Enquiry into the fitness of the National Director of Public Prosecutions to hold office (the Ginwala Enquiry). He previously held the position of Special Advisor to the Speaker of the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999. He spent many years in political exile in the UK, and worked at the ANC Mission in London, serving, inter alia, as a Spokesman for the ANC. He holds an LL.B from the University of Southampton and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, and was admitted as a barrister at the Inner Temple.
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