@article{Du Plessis_2015, title={The Life and Times of a Learned Jackal for Justice}, volume={18}, url={https://perjournal.co.za/article/view/603}, DOI={10.4314/pelj.v18i4.01}, abstractNote={<p><em>Noscitur a sociis. You are known by the company you keep. Aan jou vriende word jy geken.</em></p> <p>If this saying holds, my friends, then I, your guest of honour at this auspicious occasion, am a human being beyond compare, and perhaps even a semblance of the laureate so profusely showered with your praises today. However, acceding to honest introspection, I fully reckon with the possibility that the proverb may be amiss and at any rate not applicable to me. But let me first speak the following words in bold before I say anything more: “My friends, thank you, simply but sincerely, for your unfaltering camaraderie through the years, as together we negotiated the labyrinth that is académe; for your enthusiasm to walk many an extra mile with me and, in sum, for your amicable and caring involvement in the fulfilment of what to me has been a thoroughly gratifying career (so far).</p> <p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=C4ZqO54AAAAJ&cstart=300&pagesize=100&citation_for_view=C4ZqO54AAAAJ:u-coK7KVo8oC" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/tshiamo/Google_Scholar_logo_201757.png" alt=""></a>    <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=39e0219e-6ecc-454a-8909-aa4654d8f05c" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="/public/site/images/tshiamo/ScienceOpen_Log034368.png"></a></p>}, number={4}, journal={Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal}, author={Du Plessis, L}, year={2015}, month={Jun.}, pages={774–781} }