In this episode of the Constitution@Work, the Constitutional Rights Programme team, including Daniela Ellerbeck, Sonia Twongyeirwe and Shanees Nkandu, are joined by Professor William Gumede to discuss electoral reform.
Daniela Ellerbeck and Lusanda Mahkuntsu examine the Constitutional Court’s recent ruling about whether the Court should allow South Africa’s surveillance law to keep working after it became invalid, while Parliament finishes fixing it.
The FW de Klerk Foundation releases its “The Constitution and The Cabinet Report” to address whether the national executive is actually giving effect to the promise in the Preamble to “improve the quality of life of all citizens and free the potential of each person”?
The FW de Klerk Foundation welcomes the Western Cape High Court’s judgment directing the Western Cape Education Department to take firm steps to ensure every learner has access to schooling in 2026.
The FW de Klerk Foundation’s submission on the SIU’s Draft National Corruption Risk and Prevention Framework points out the unconstitutionality of South Africa’s current anti-corruption framework and calls for urgent reforms.
Lusanda Mahkuntsu considers whether the Constitutional Court had jurisdiction to hear a challenge brought by former President Jacob Zuma and the uMkhonto weSizwe Party against certain decisions of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Lusanda Mahkuntsu considers the Constitutional Court’s decision on whether the tie-breaking mechanism in the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act, 1998 is constitutional.
Ismail Joosub outlines what the President’s declaration of Gender-based Violence as a national disaster legally means, as well as the pitfalls if the government doesn’t fulfil its strengthened legal obligation.
Ismail Joosub considers the recently published 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index, which ranks South Africa first in Southern Africa and second on the continent for criminality.
