STATEMENT: CFCR WELCOMES MEETING BETWEEN CHIEF JUSTICE AND THE PRESIDENT
2015-08-27
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes the recently concluded meeting between the Chief Justice as head of the Judiciary and the President as head of State. The meeting, at the request of the Chief Justice, Heads of Court and senior Judges of all Divisions, aimed to address the unwarranted attacks by some politicians on the Judiciary, but also the government’s apparent disregard for court orders.
[Paper delivered at the Constitutional Democracy: The Role of provincial and Local Government in making Governance more Effective, Accountable and Innovative Conference, hosted by the Centre for Constitutional Rights, in cooperation with the School for Public Leadership (SPL), the Stellenbosch Good Governance Forum, the European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano (EURAC) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, held from 19 – 21 August 2015]
Johannesburg’s Hillbrow, a residential inner-city neighbourhood, is home to several dilapidated buildings, which house many of the city’s low income earners. Recently the Red Ant Security and Eviction Services, (the Red Ants) so called because of their red overalls and helmets, saw it prudent to evict dwellers from one such building, apparently at the behest of the building’s owner. This, despite it being winter in the Highveld, with temperatures that dip below zero at night.
“Is South Africa ready for a woman president?” – screams the occasional news headline. The same question was posed to the president of the women’s league of the governing party, and elicited the following response: while there had been advances in having women in leadership, the “time was not yet ripe to have a woman lead” the party, and by implication, the country. The same question was asked a year later – the treasurer-general of the same organisation responded, “everybody is ready for a woman leader”.
On 29 July the Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) and the School of Public Leadership (SPL) at Stellenbosch University (SU) supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), hosted the third in a series of breakfast discussions for 2015. The aim of these discussions is to create a platform for conversation about the Constitution and good public leadership.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s intervention in relation to the recent spate of 
THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2015
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) notes with great concern the increasing attacks on the independence, impartiality, dignity and effectiveness of the courts by senior members of the African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partners.