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I am in Peru to attend a conference, so will not post as regularly in the next ten days.
This blog deals with political and social issues in South Africa, mostly from the perspective of Constitutional Law.
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- Pierre de Vos
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- Professor of Law, University of Western Cape
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Makes one think, ne?
"We are all perpetually smoothing and rearranging reality to conform to our wishes; we lie to others and to ourselves constantly, unthinkingly. When, occasionally - and not by dint of our own efforts but under the pressure of external events - we are forced to see things as they are, we are like naked people in a storm. There are a few among us - psychoanalysts have encountered them - who are blessed or cursed with a strange imperviousness to the unpleasantness of self-knowledge. Their lies to themselves are so convincing that they are never unmasked. These are the people who never feel in the wrong, who are always able to justify their conduct, and who in the end - human nature being what it is - cause their fallible fellow-men to turn away from them,"
- Janet Malcolm, In the Freud Archives.
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Oh Dear - Just as Justice & the Inner Sanctum get heavy:
Granting Sabata bail, Van Schalkwyk said it was likely that the postmortem and ballistics reports would not be completed within the next five months, due to state backlogs, and it would be unfair to keep Sabata locked up for so long while awaiting trial.
A previous conviction in 1997 of assault with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm and firing a gun in public, under the influence of alcohol, did not prove that Sabata had a propensity for violence, he said.
"He has walked a clean path for 10 years," the magistrate added...
Enjoy the travels!
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