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Judith February

Judith February is executive officer: Freedom Under Law and editor of Daily Maverick’s legal newsletter, Judith’s Prudence.

Latest Work

Judith February

10 November 2022

The search for new ways of seeing that free us from the toxicity of current public discourse

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29 September 2022

Political theatre of smoke and mirrors aims to destroy the edifice of constitutional democracy

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2 September 2022

Ramaphosa's deafening silence on things that matter speaks volumes about a bereft government flailing in the dark

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11 August 2022

Last week was one of great sorrow; we are exhausted by our country's brokenness

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24 July 2022

The pandemic of impunity has become democracy’s crisis

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30 June 2022

Dark lessons in democracy from both the US Supreme Court and our own under-attack judiciary

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16 June 2022

SA is in a dangerous phase where our democracy is at stake

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Judith February

20 May 2022

In a post-truth world, exhaustion of critical thinking is the new ‘get out of jail free card’

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Confronting xenophobic populism — ‘think carefully, write clearly, repeat’

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Judith February

22 April 2022

Heartbreak hell – How much more corruption can South Africa endure?

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Judith February

11 April 2022

Improved JSC under Zondo is more dignified, but still has a road to travel to find judges with intellectual heft

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Judith February

3 March 2022

Wage peace not war – not only for Ukraine, but for all of us

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