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  We need a justice that restores. This week, the testimony of Dudu Myeni at the state capture commission has brought some important issues to the fore. Some months ago I wrote about the possible role of restorative justice in the problem of state capture and...

  The horse-racing protests at Fairview and how we think about protest. I recently wrote about the Clicks protests and how the EFF was disturbing the ‘peace’ and revealing and confronting the folly of the idea of and insistence on ‘law and order’ in a deeply unjust...

  Earlier this week I wrote about the EFF call to action and insuring protests in the wake of the racist hair advert published by Clicks and its partners. In order to get to true peace where justice is present, it may be necessary to disturb the peace or the folly of...

  We are in a global space of struggle that threatens the core of capitalism and its various racialised manifestations not least of which is the boot on the neck of the black majority in South Africa where labour potential is sold to the quintessential lowest bidder...

  I THOUGHT WE SHOULD TALK A case for mediation in divorce By Sheena Jonker ‘I charge 950 dollars an hour. Ted over there will be assisting in your divorce. He charges 400 dollars an hour. You got stupid questions, you call Ted’ From Marriage Story I had been sick...

  Are we having the right conversation? Are we thinking about this in the right way? Remedial work requires right thinking, right seeing, right speaking and right action. In mediating conflict I often find myself saying to parties ‘are you seeing this in the right...

  Introduction I’m going to be spending a little time talking about the space within which we mediate and the stance, or the inner posture that the mediator brings with them. The Mediation Space Although Mediation is presented as an alternative to law and litigation,...

As mediators we need to grapple and tussle with what it means to be human. This means wrestling with fear, courage or lack of courage and ongoing self-interrogation. Dr Cornel West, in his lecture, ‘What it Means to be Human’[i] references Plato’s ‘Apology’: the...

As expected, we are starting to experience an influx of lockdown-related disputes. Here are some of the areas in which we are starting to apply mediated approaches: Renegotiating the terms of commercial agreements like commercial leases as well as various service...

Dear friends I greet you all in peace and hope that your Easter Weekend or whatever it is that you observe or don’t observe, has been a happy one. Many have raised with me the fear of an emerging totalitarianism and/or authoritarianism accompanied by loss of civil...