IN AN unprecedented move, lobby group Advocates For Transformation (AFT) will on Saturday seek the expulsion of the Cape Bar from the General Council of the Bar (GCB) over transformation concerns.The move signifies a lack of unity among SA’s advocates over one of the most pressing issues facing the profession.The AFT wants the Cape Bar to amend its constitution to require that 50% of its council, the governing body, should be nominated by the AFT, as is the case at the Johannesburg and Pretoria Bars. The GCB’s own governing structures are also constitutionally structured to be 50% AFT.The Cape Bar’s constitution is different. It requires that 50% of members of its council be black — African, coloured, or Indian — but this is not dependent on organisational affiliation.Until recently, the 50% black requirement meant in practice that 50% of the Cape Bar council’s members were in fact AFT members, as the majority of black members of the bar were AFT members. But there has been a bruisi...
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