Judith February on Defending the Rule of Law

POSTPONEMENT

Dear Members and Guests. Judith February is unfortunately not able to present her address at the Cape Town Press Club on Thursday 22 August.  Details of a new date will be forwarded to you in due course. 

Judith February is a lawyer, governance specialist and columnist. She is an Executive Officer: Freedom Under Law. Prior to that, she was a visiting fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand’s School of Governance, executive director of the Human Sciences Research Council’s Democracy and Governance unit and head of Idasa’s South African Governance programme for nine years.

Judith has worked extensively on issues of good governance, transparency, and accountability within the South African context. Her areas of focus include corruption and its impact on governance, Parliamentary oversight, and institutional design. Widely published, Judith is a regular columnist for the Daily Maverick and editor of its fortnightly legal newsletter, Judith’s Prudence. Judith is also a CONFLICT DYNAMICS accredited commercial mediator, and was appointed to the Interim Board of Cricket South Africa between October 2020 and June 2021 to deal with maladministration in the running of cricket and to draft a new Memorandum of Incorporation. Judith is currently a member of the South African Cricketers’ Association (SACA) board.  She is the author of “Turning and turning: exploring the complexities of South Africa’s democracy” (PanMacmillan, 2018).

Judith February will address the Cape Town Press Club on “Defending the rule of law and constitutionalism: the importance of the judiciary”.