Increasingly, the courts are being called on to settle disputes that should be dealt with by other constitutional or political institutions.
Jacob Zuma. Picture: REUTERS/Rogan Ward
SA is awash with court cases between political actors. Hardly a week goes by without a civil society organisation or a political party approaching ...
A new collection of legal and autobiographical writings by former Constitutional Court judge,Albie Sach, offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution. Sachs, who lost his arm and his sight in one eye in a bomb attack by the apartheid regime in Maputo, was appointed by Nelson ...
By Mondli Makhanya
“Your conscience will not guide you, but ANC branches will.”
Those words were said by Water and Sanitation minister and senior ANC leader Nomvula Mokonyane last weekend, urging President Jacob Zuma to stand firm in the face of calls for him to do the right thing.
Conscience ...
BY KGALEMA MOTLANTHE OCTOBER 05 2016
The medium-term budget policy statement that the minister of finance will deliver to Parliament towards the end of October, will again provide South Africans with a clearer picture of the priorities of our government. By updating the revenue, spending and borrowing projections for the ...
By Steven Friedman
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WHEN South Africans debate how public money should be spent, we can be sure that the voices of most of the people will never be heard.
The conflict over university fee increases is the latest example. We are told that "the students" want some ...
BY RONÉE ROBINSON.
It is by now well established that the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) is the vehicle giving effect to the right of access to information, enshrined in section 32 of the constitution. This is an important right, albeit an importance easy to disrespect and disguise. ...
By Buchule Raba
On Tuesday‚ the President’s office said that the government had appointed an actuary to calculate the quantum of each claim and was preparing to make an offer once all loss of support claims had been completed.
“Proposed amounts for settlement of the claims of unlawful detention and ...
THE conclusion of the 2016 local government elections is an important and happy political moment for SA. Faced with the option of either retreating into tradition or accepting the responsibility of choice, South Africans by and large chose the latter.
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves," ...
By Cyril Ramaphosa
HIV is a powerful enemy. If we want to defeat it, we must continue to be on guard.
Sixteen years ago an 11-year-old South African boy, tiny for his age, stood alone on a huge stage. He had a microphone in his hand and a smile on ...
BY THABANG MOTSOHI
The report by Municipal IQ on the trends in service delivery protests in SA is very disturbing. A worrying component of these protests is the increasing level of violence, and even more worrying is the fact that the violence is perpetrated mostly by the youth, who should ...