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NXESI PROMISES NUANCE IN EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

A “ground-breaking” settlement reached yesterday between Employment & Labour Minister Thulas Nxesi and trade union Solidarity states that “affirmative action shall be applied in a nuanced way… and the economically active population (EAP) statistics will only be one of the many factors that will be taken into account in the compliance analysis of affirmative action in any workplace”.

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BELA BILL OPPOSITION CONTINUES

While public hearings on the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill continue nationally, it is no surprise that the majority of the comments received have voiced strong opposition to it.

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DON’T TEAR UP THE CONTRACT: CALL THE DELINQUENTS TO ACCOUNT!

In his recent articles on the Constitution, Prof Koos Malan expresses the view that those of us who supported the constitutional transformation of South Africa between 1989 and 1996 were motivated by some kind of liberal-religious delusion. Dave Steward, Chairman of the FW de Klerk Foundation, responds.

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2022 HUMAN RIGHT REPORT CARD

The FW de Klerk Foundation has just published its annual Human Rights Report Card for 2022. The Report found that, with the exception of the severe derogation of many fundamental rights by COVID regulations under the Disaster Management Act, South Africa continued to maintain basic standards of constitutional democracy during 2021.

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