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DerrickGrootboom

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I am a South African by birth. I am qualified and experienced in law and work at present as a legal consultant. I am married with two daugthers and live in Springbok in the Northern Cape Namakwaland but attend often to Cape Town where I conduct also work on invitation.

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2014 South Africa exchanges the Corruption Compass for Moral Compass

Heal the divisions of the past and to establish a society based on democratic values, social justice and fundamental human rights.

President Zuma’s leadership is distinctive

A leader elected by the people do as the people tell him or her to do, is the definition President Jacob Zuma gave to his audience in Kwa-Zulu-Natal this week.

South African transformation envisioned

Parliament and the Executive both who are responsible essentially for transformation of South Africa through respectively making legislation must at all times keep their eyes on the Constitution.

Zuma symbolises crime pays

It is a criminal offence to make intelligence officers to act in conflict with their duty in making them to release classified information like it happened in Jacob Zuma’s case.

ANC Politics: Nobility (principle) v Ignobility (convenience)

It was our Noble Struggle to have principle to supersede convenience...

Life is hope and hope is life uncompromisingly!

Most of us live our lives on a ruler, the thing that is straight, starts with zero and counts forward in millimetres and centimetres becoming meters and kilometres; 1, 2, 3...

When Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet resigns

Selling one’s soul for position has become a daily feature of discourse in South Africa and seemingly not even the judges are spared this evil.

Save Yourself, South Africa

South Africa, once upon a time, long, long ago was a desert of injustice. The land was ruled by a vicious and unbeatable monster called Apartheid Racism.

Public Civil Servant or Public Political Servant?

A very popular culture that took hold of our organisation, ANC, is that the only qualification you need to be anything in government is to become an ANC deployee.

An irrational President and Minister of Justice not evident of insanity rule?

Irrationality, not being in ratio or the quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.

My erstwhile NPA Seniors, a law unto themselves

Two senior managers of the NPA are the ones the NPA are tying to defend in my case and in trying to do so it decided to end my contract as prosecutor.

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