Race put at the centre of Joburg Bar Council dispute

15 November 2020 - 00:00 By Franny Rabkin

The Duma Nokwe Group of Advocates — one of the biggest black advocates groups at the Johannesburg Bar — has demanded that the bar council retract a recent resolution on chambers, saying it had racially stigmatised the group and perpetuated the notion that black people were not professional...

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