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Publications & Reports

Bleek reviews the public's reaction to Hendrik Cloete's retirement as the third puisne judge of the Cape Supreme Court. He laments the poor state of the Colonial Bar, which lacks long-established professionals and contemplates how else to use Cloete's expertise, suggesting that he might pivot toward consulting work or preside over alternative dispute resolution processes for certain kinds of disputes to alleviate the overburdened, understaffed judiciary (that has lost distinguished practitioners like Frederick Stephanus Watermeyer, and now, Hendrik Cloete). A practitioner can be too old to shoulder the demands of their office while still being able to contribute to that sphere of activity from outside its constraints. Local legal practitioners, let alone experts, are scarce and the retention of their expertise in whatever form only benefits the public, elevating our deliberation and problem-solving. Bleek disagrees that a busier role for Cloete would interfere with his government appointment as a Puisne Judge stand-in. A rightly earned pension should not condemn the recipient to "enforced idleness" or conditionally confine them indefinitely to that jurisdiction. Bleek digresses to the list of unemployed that features few European immigrants and features mostly discharged soldiers and sailors. Work demands seem to accompany unreasonable wages that, when denied, result in something strike-like. For those harder to place, a labour test is needed to separate the voluntarily unemployed from "serious" job-seekers. Cape Town's The Shambles, an open-air, sea-facing Adderley Street abattoir, is an eyesore requiring formalisation. Lastly, Wynberg station's infrastructure is too unsubstantial for its high urban traffic.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

02/11/1865

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. No title was subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.