Staff Reporter
Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi has ordered the Office of the Solicitor-General and provincial state attorneys to draw up new measures within a month to overhaul the allocation of state legal work.
Speaking at the Legal Practitioners’ Fidelity Fund Conference in Ekurhuleni, Kubayi said the sustainability of the legal profession depended on whether the sector became more transformed and inclusive.
“The outcry of the majority about the lack of transformation of the legal profession is a risk to the sustainability of the legal profession and our democracy,” Kubayi said.
“It is for this reason that I have made a commitment to work closely with the sector to ensure that we drive meaningful transformation of the legal profession so that our children do not find themselves behaving like mad men and women who repeat the same calls for change their parents made without yielding any results.”
Black lawyers have long
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