Thank you, Judge Mostert!

Thank you, Judge Mostert! PDF

Author: Carmel Rickard

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2012-09-27

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0143527754

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Anton Mostert was one of South Africa's youngest judges when he was appointed to head a commission of inquiry into exchange control regulations in 1978. His inquiry, seemingly innocuous, unearthed what was at that time the greatest political scandal in the country's history - massive corruption in the department of information. In defiance of warnings by Prime Minister PW Botha not to disclose his findings, Mostert released all the evidence that had been led before him, exposing some of the most powerful men in the country and effectively changing history. The title of this book, Thank You, Judge Mostert! is taken from the inscription which appeared overnight on bumper stickers all over South Africa in the weeks following Judge Anton Mostert's revelations of the Information Scandal. This overt, spontaneous outburst of public appreciation and support requires history to be retold - for this is the story of a principled and courageous judge who not only fiercely fought for the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law in South Africa, but who also fearlessly confronted the Afrikaner executive at a critical juncture in South Africa's history.

Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010

Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010 PDF

Author: Ted Laros

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1683930169

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In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s transition to a non-racial democracy seemed to form a decisive turning point in the history of South African censorship of literature. This study employs a historical sociological point of view to describe how the nation’s emerging literary field helped pave the way for the constitutional entrenchment of this right in 1994. On the basis of institutional and poetological analyses of all the legal trials concerning literature that were held in South Africa during the period 1910–2010, it describes how the battles fought in and around the courts between literary, judicial and executive elites eventually led to a constitutional exceptio artis for literature. As the South African judiciary displayed an ongoing orientation towards both English and American law in this period, the analyses are firmly placed in the context of developments occurring concurrently in these two legal systems.

Feverish

Feverish PDF

Author: Gigi Fenster

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1776561481

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Swaziland is where you think, for the first time, maybe if I got brain fever I would be able to stop worrying. I’d lose control and, maybe then, I’d understand my friend’s mind. In an attempt to break free from rationality and make her life a work of art, Gigi Fenster decides to induce a fever in herself. Fever, she surmises, is a ‘particularly writerly thing’. What follows is a captivating memoir of that attempt. Feverish ranges over Fenster’s childhood in South Africa, her relationships with her psychiatrist father, her troubled friend Simon, and her mother and four siblings, through to New Zealand and her relationships with her two teenage daughters. As she traverses her life, Fenster asks questions about bravery, transgression, vulnerability and the value we place on art.This memoir is a witty, intelligent, original examination of what it means to be a compassionate human being. ‘Without empathy,’ she writes, ‘one cannot tell the full story. There can be no proper care.’

Mr Entertainment

Mr Entertainment PDF

Author: Paula Fourie

Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 610

ISBN-13: 0639601219

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In Mr Entertainment , we hear the voices of the people who knew Taliep Petersen best: his family, friends and collaborators. Their stories bring to life the spaces he inhabited, vividly recounting scenes from his childhood, his rise to fame from the Cape Coon Carnival stage to the West End, his artistic collaborations, most notably with David Kramer, his family life, and his tragic death and its aftermath. In this pioneering biography of one of Cape Town’s most beloved entertainers, we encounter Petersen as a complex and many-sided personality whose influence continues to reverberate in national life. Mr Entertainment evokes not just Taliep's life, but also the music and entertainment landscapes of the 1950s to 2000s and their diverse and irrepressible cultural traditions. Along the way, it brings us to the front row of South Africa’s difficult history. Drawing on the musician’s personal archive and on more than fifty interviews conducted over a decade, Paula Fourie has pieced together a fascinating portrait of Taliep Petersen, acutely observed and poignantly captured.

Debates

Debates PDF

Author: South Africa. Parliament. House of Assembly

Publisher:

Published: 1965-06-18

Total Pages: 1630

ISBN-13:

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Vols. 1- cover debates of the House of the 1st- Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

Final Deadline

Final Deadline PDF

Author: Rex Gibson

Publisher: David Philip

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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For much of its 83-year history, the Rand Daily Mail was the most controversial newspaper in South Africa. Fearless and forthright, the newspaper dug where other publications did not, exposing stories - like the Information Scandal - that other newspapers were afraid to print.

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