About Stuart Hayward

Stuart Hayward Stuart "The Mentalist" Hayward - an eclectic prodigy. Stuart has a voracious appetite for legal issues and is an ardent patriot of our fine republic. A final year law student at the University of Stellenbosch his education keeps him at the coal-face, never before has the law been this interesting. Stuart’s skilful analyses of political dealings will keep you up to speed with what’s cracking in terms of the state of the judiciary, the movements of the executive and often begs the question: are laws merely made to be broken or just abused???

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Latest Articles by Stuart Hayward:

    Dewani debacle

    Dewani debacle

    “It’s highly unlikely that Tongo and the hijackers are the only ones in on it- watch this space, neither Scorsese nor Tarantino could have better scripted this mouth-watering saga!”
     
    The all [...]

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    • Posted on 8th Dec 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 2 comments

    Amanzi is my nemesis- Adventures on the Fish River

    Amanzi is my nemesis- Adventures on the Fish River

    Soutpans rapid springs to mind.
    A smidgen over 200m of rocky river bed, a rollercoaster of white water beset by boat-ravenous boobytraps. Thrown out with around 150 m to go, I [...]

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    • Posted on 8th Oct 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 4 comments

    Mark Hanley- Tribute to a Bishops legend

    Mark Hanley died this week. A geography teacher and previous housemaster of Founders House at Bishops College in Cape Town.
    I will remember Mark for his passionate approach to life and [...]

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    • Posted on 2nd Sep 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 5 comments

    Highly Contagious Hypochondria

    Highly Contagious Hypochondria

    Believe me. Dodgy bark and resin mined from the clutches of the Orient fell well short of anything I had ever deemed to be medicine.
    A dreadful human rights record, infamously [...]

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    • Posted on 31st Aug 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 6 comments

    A tale of Enobarban proportions

    A tale of Enobarban proportions

    “ALL RISE” droned the Registrar……my brief interlude into the life of a riot policeman had been cut short by a less interesting sort of judge.
    He hates his job. He’s been [...]

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    • Posted on 3rd Aug 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 2 comments

    Xeno-ethiopa-phobia

    Xeno-ethiopa-phobia

    The “Ama kwiri-kwiri” have once again failed to slip under the radar. World Cup fever out, racial attacks back in.
    I could not help tuning my ear into Redi Direko’s 702 [...]

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    • Posted on 16th Jul 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 2 comments

    Real Dutchmen & Beetroot

    Real Dutchmen & Beetroot

    HIV. A seemingly insurmountable hurdle. When the last Spaniard and Dutchman (the authentic kind I might add), have finally left our shores it will be high time for policy makers [...]

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    • Posted on 13th Jul 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 1 comments

    The brilliance of Zapiro… and we thought the showerhead caused a fuss

    The brilliance of Zapiro… and we thought the showerhead caused a fuss

    A certain Kurt Westergaard ring a bell?
    Allow me to dust the cobwebs-
    He is one of 12 Danish cartoonists at the heart of a 2008 global Islamic furor e  regarding cartoons [...]

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    • Posted on 22nd May 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 2 comments

    Wat sou De La Rey gedoen het?

    Wat sou De La Rey gedoen het?

    “far better to use the top of the palate, best leave the back of the throat for masticatory purposes!”
    Die stem. Die Matie, die swartgevaar.
    The Afrikaner is being pushed into a [...]

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    • Posted on 21st Apr 2010
      by Stuart Hayward
    • 9 comments
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