STATEMENT: VIOLENCE WILL NOT IMPROVE ACCESS TO EDUCATION
2015-10-21
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) notes with concern the escalating levels of violence, intimidation and racial tones accompanying student protests at university campuses and elsewhere across South Africa – whether committed by students, or in response to student protests.
The Constitution provides a number of options to claim our rights in a peaceful and lawful manner. This includes the right to assemble, demonstrate, picket and present petitions in a manner that is peaceful and unarmed.
Today, October 15, is the International Day of Rural Women as set by the United Nations. The day seeks to recognise the role of rural women in enhancing agricultural and rural development, improving food security and eradicating rural poverty. Indications, however, are that South Africa is far from this ideal.
[Speech delivered by CFCR Director, Adv Johan Kruger, at Real Talk: “Blacks Only” – White Persepctives hosted by Dialoog (
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes the Supreme Court of Appeal’s (SCA) judgment in SABC v DA in which the Court upheld an order by the Western Cape Division of the High Court to suspend South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Chief Operating Officer, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, pending a disciplinary hearing.
5 October annually marks World Teachers’ Day. The day, according to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), is set aside to ensure that the needs of future generations will continue to be met by teachers. Suffice to say, teachers play a vital role in any society for a number of reasons. They provide education to young people, who in turn become the leaders of the next generation. They also impart knowledge to children in their most impressionable years, thus establishing a foundation that remains for the rest of their lives.
On 22 September 2015 the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) and the School of Public Leadership (SPL) at Stellenbosch University (SU), supported by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), hosted the fourth in a series of breakfast discussions for 2015. The aim of these discussions is to create a platform for conversation and debate about the Constitution and good public leadership.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes a decision by the North Gauteng High Court to deny the State leave to appeal its earlier full-bench judgment in the 
THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2015
A decision by the Economic Freedom Fighters (the EFF) to seek direct access to the Constitutional Court on the Nkandla debacle, was the right decision. Although legal certainty regarding the Public Protector’s powers is an important matter, the Western Cape High Court in Democratic Alliance v SABC and Others arguably correctly clarified the law in this regard.