“In life, one of South Africa’s most prolific and celebrated historians, novelists and translators, Karel Schoeman, was notoriously hermetic, shunning most contact with the outside world. Schoeman, who worked as an archivist at...
Read MoreThe SCA allowed the appeal and set aside the order of Fabricius J in the high court. An advocate suffering in the terminal stages of cancer applied for an order to allow a medical practitioner to administer a lethal agent at...
Read MoreThe Court declared inter alia as follows: the Applicant is a mentally competent adult; has freely and voluntarily, and without undue influence requested the Court to authorize that he be assisted in an act of suicide; is...
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