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Franny Rabkin

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Legal reporter, Sunday Times. Editor, Advocate.

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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The Western Cape High Court has made an order in the DA and EFFs VAT case: VAT hike is suspended. The fiscal framework is set aside. Order was made this afternoon (Sunday) by agreement between the parties, after a meeting with the judges.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
💀
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If after Tuesday I never have to think about VAT again, it will be too soon
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Wrote this about the law around the VAT hike u turn www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
timeslive.co.za
ANALYSIS | Godongwana's VAT U-turn raises difficult legal questions
Finance minister's statement seems to implicitly acknowledge that he is not legally empowered, through a mere announcement, to reverse the VAT hike
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The way I’m getting notifications and sms’s about vat increases today “dear client”, “dear customer”. Maybe they don’t think the courts are going to interdict
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Godongwana says the DA is seeking to “reframe a political disagreement as a constitutional crisis. This is not the proper function of urgent judicial intervention.” www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
timeslive.co.za
Suspending the VAT hike would have ‘severe and far-reaching’ consequences: Godongwana
The DA is seeking to ‘reframe a political disagreement as a constitutional crisis’, says finance minister in court papers
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Still to try
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Yes!
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Guys!
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Yes. Eish.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Well they say the only way to dealing with bullies is to stand up to them.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Thanks for this. It’s interesting that Chromium ores are excluded from the tariffs and the USA gets 98% of its chromium ore from South Africa.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thank you. I am sorted but thanks a lot
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Yes, very interesting stats. Will post in a bit
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Interesting statistic from the LPC: as at July last year, out of a total 33110 attorneys in South Africa, 16,697 were black and 15,853 were white (560 “race not specified”) - white attorneys still disproportionately over represented given our population demographics, no?
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Plus, does AfriForum not itself go to court fairly often under Equality Act - the most race-based law of all the “race-based laws”?
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Very confused by noise about “race-based laws”. Legislation to promote the achievement of equality is expressly provided for by the constitution. If you have a problem, mobilize for a constitutional amendment 🤷🏻‍♀️.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Does anyone on here have access to the SA criminal law reports? 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
(How can all South Africans unite against some of SA’s races?). I guess this thread is about how misinformation thrives when reporting is inaccurate.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
the EWN story with same quote says “right wing racists”, which makes more sense and is consistent with all the ANC’s other statements on AfriForum
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Thread: This article by would-be ambassador to SA, Joel Pollack refers to an SABC report that quotes the ANC’s spokesperson as calling on all South Africans to unite against right-wing “races”. However… t.co/8hcKuEwRLY
t.co
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/03/south-african-police-open-treason-investigation-into-critics-of-government/
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Bummed that I am missing argument on behalf of MKP in court today and I’m hearing that Mpofu SC is making a compelling case.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Just been told there is no live feed at the Hlophe hearing today.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🙏🙏
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
It’s no longer the JCC but a JCT now (judicial conduct tribunal). Legal arguments are still to be made and he may have a legal defence. But he has proffered no alternative version on the facts.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Don’t mind me, just here having a meltdown
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This is lesson that I should have learnt long ago. GO TO COURT. Don’t rely on live feeds. Yassass, fok man.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I’m told there is a technical difficulty with the live feed. 😭😭😭😭
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thanks my friend.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
There seems to be a delay - does anyone know what the hold up is?
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Will post bits where I can 😊 - for my very few followers on here (thanks for the follows). I’m stubbornly refusing to go back to that other app.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I didn’t physically make it to the Western Cape High Court for the case about whether Dr Hlophe should be permanently barred from the JSC today (kid broke her arm among other factors). But I will be following the case virtually
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
He also did not make submissions to the JCC.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Evidence in Parker Tribunal done and dusted in a day without him testifying and without his counsel asking a single question. Now they are deciding on dates for closing argument
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
There is a website called the Daily Friend (describes itself as the online newspaper of the Institute for Race Relations) which has reproduced the first paragraphs of my story in latest Sunday Times word for word (except for where I quoted Pabasa’s Nomgcobo Jiba) under the byline of staff writer.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think she was well advised. But I would have liked to have seen section 12 tested by the courts.
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Franny Rabkin @franstaar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I wrote something on what the DA’s court case on the Expropriation Act is NOT about. And what it is about. DA’s Helen Zille said the narrow focus of its case was after discussion with lawyers. www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
timeslive.co.za
DA court case on Expropriation Act does not challenge expropriation without compensation
DA's Helen Zille says the narrow focus of the case was a matter of 'strategy'
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