This week marks the mid-way point of the third term and the programme has a familiar pattern: lots of unglamorous legislating, oversight and scrutinising, with some set piece battles in prospect.
Fireworks are expected during the debate on the parliamentary ad hoc committee report on the Nkandla upgrades. MPs visited ...
According to the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), the recent presence and non-arrest of Omar Al-Bashir, the President of Sudan, in South Africa, while he was attending the African Union (AU) summit, is, in many ways, a turning point in the way South Africa engages with the international justice ...
The Cape High Court ruling against the media in the so-called parliamentary censorship and signal jamming case serves to emphasise the importance the constitution places on the integrity of our democratic institutions.
The court, sitting as a full bench, ruled two to one that Parliament "has a right to protect ...
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation's (IJR) Ashley Kriel Youth Leadership Development project in collaboration with the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights (JELI) in Atlanta, Georgia, have convened and hosted a cross-cultural dialogue project titled Crafting Change Agents. This program served as a cross-cultural ...
On Wednesday, 20 May 2015, the South African Police Service (SAPS) briefed the Police Portfolio Committee on progress made on the implementation of the Child Justice Act. Since the implementation of the legislation, the number of children charged for crimes has been on a downward trajectory. The Act looks toward ...
This is a week for detailed law-making, with issues ranging from maintenance, to freedom of expression, to land expropriation, to trade union accountability and decriminalising consensual sex between children of certain ages.
Beyond this, the legislature’s budget vote season doesn’t show any sign of slowing down as most days are ...
By Nolundi Luwaya
Earlier attempts to introduce a legal system that empowered chiefs to administer justice were fiercely opposed as provisions of the Traditional Courts Bill were deemed unconstitutional. Now a revised bill addressing rural issues is in the pipeline, writes Nolundi Luwaya.
Cape Town - The government is preparing ...
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, War Trauma Foundation (Netherlands), The International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE) and the African Centre for Migration and Society cordially invite you to a book launch and public discussion coinciding with the hosting of an international conference titled ‘Healing communities, transforming society: Exploring the interconnectedness ...
Just like the rest of the country, Parliament vibrates with concern about the recent spate of xenophopic attacks . As part of countrywide efforts to counter these incidents, the legislature has suspended its plenary sittings for this week to allow MPs to go to their constituencies and mobilise their communities ...