Franny Rabkin
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Franny Rabkin
@franstaar
Legal reporter at Sunday Times - on sabbatical for 2026. Editor of Advocate. 🇿🇦
South Africa Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@franstaar @dansmywholename FRANNY!!!! How dare you?! We are the home of Lucas Radebe! 😭😭😭😭
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Jirre kyk nou vir Groot Bek Brenda 🙄🙄
Sinister in the Presidency@AmandaBRinquest
@dansmywholename Never forget:
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@dansmywholename I was referring to Amanda for selling you out actually 🤣🤣🤣
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@franstaar 😭😭😭 I just misread the poster but anyway Khosi for life ✌️😛
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Franny Rabkin retweetledi
Long live the memory of Fink Haysom. When I was approaching the end of my law studies, I met him to ask his advice about what I should do. He was generous and broadened my imagination about the possibilities of a life in the law.
Condolences to all his loved ones.
UCT Law School@UctLaw
The Faculty of Law is deeply saddened by the passing of Nicholas "Fink" Haysom yesterday, 18 March 2026, in New York City. A Faculty LLB alum, and recipient of a UCT LLD Honoris Causa (2012), Fink Haysom was internationally recognised for his significant contributions to human rights, constitutionalism, and conflict resolution, both in South Africa and internationally. UN Secretary General's full statement: un.org/sg/en/content/…
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“Well, after Mandela's term as president had finished, he received a phone call from the late Julius Nyerere, former president of Tanzania, who had asked him, 'Can you lend me a lawyer?’” RIP Fink Haysom, former legal adviser to President Mandela and UN special rep to South Sudan
United Nations@UN
As a young activist in South Africa, Nicholas Haysom risked detention to oppose apartheid, later working alongside Nelson Mandela. Now head of @unmissmedia he continues working in pursuit of peace & human rights. Hear his story on Awake At Night. bit.ly/4oChSRe
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The Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has reinstated John Mandlakayise Hlophe as its first deputy president and parliamentary leader.
timeslive.co.za/politics/2026-…
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“Sojourner Truth says all the women are white, and all the blacks are men; but some of us are brave. So it’s this kind of bravery that black women exist in, in the legal system.” -Sibongile Ndashe @ISLAfrica
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Victoria Mxenge “taught me by her presence what it was to be a liberated woman … her passion about women’s rights, her ability to articulate the law in the interests of people who are being oppressed by the law was very powerful. And she did it with so much love.”-Pregs Govender
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“When we were exposed to other liberation struggles in … Zimbabwe, Mozambique …we learnt if we are to be liberated, we must, as women, move away from the belief that we will attain women’s liberation automatically through national liberation”-Mavivi Miyakayaka Manzini
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These days every time I get a notification from ConCourt I think oof, must be Phala Phala judgment. And then it isn’t😩😭.
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The way I check every other day 😂
Franny Rabkin@franstaar
These days every time I get a notification from ConCourt I think oof, must be Phala Phala judgment. And then it isn’t😩😭.
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@dansmywholename Shhh please Dan. One judgment, which is very clear. Thank you and regards.
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@franstaar That’s the only explanation I can think of 😭
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Bet you there are at least 7 judgments coming.
Franny Rabkin@franstaar
These days every time I get a notification from ConCourt I think oof, must be Phala Phala judgment. And then it isn’t😩😭.
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The Constitution does not say that property may be expropriated in the national interest. It refers to a public purpose or in the public interest.
Ernst Roets@ErnstRoets
There is no such thing as a "supreme constitution". A constitution can be interpreted in many different ways, and someone has to be empowered to do it. The South African Constitution says that property can only be expropriated when it's in the national interest, and that equality has to be pursued, and that non-racialism is a constitutional principle, and that everyone has the right to access to housing. Claims like these can mean many different things, depending on interpretation. That is why scholars still debate whether the Constitution is a liberal or a progressive document. It can be either, depending on interpretation. The one empowered to interpret the constitution has more power than the constitution itself.
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Franny Rabkin retweetledi
⚖️ History has a long memory.
On 17 March, a Brussels court will decide whether former Belgian diplomat Étienne Davignon (93) should stand trial over the chain of events that led to the 1961 murder of Patrice Lumumba 🇨🇩
For decades Belgium acknowledged only “moral responsibility.”
But morality without accountability leaves history unfinished.
For many Congolese, this moment is not about a 93-year-old man — it’s about whether colonial crimes can ever truly face justice, no matter how long it takes.
Justice delayed should not mean justice denied. ✊🏾
africa-confidential.com/article/id/159…
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Thanks Prof for being one of the only person (I’ve seen) since Bozeli’s remark commenting on the dubul’ ibhunu hate speech judgment to have actually read it (giveaway being Prof knows it was written by SCA and not ConCourt 😔)
Pierre de Vos ⚖️@pierredevos
🔒Pierre de Vos | The many reasons why Bozell can’t preach to SA news24.com/opinions/analy… via @news24
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