THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2015
SPEAKERS: PROF ADAM HABIB AND PROF BARNEY PITYANA
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.
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.
THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2015
TOPIC: PARLIAMENT, THE PEOPLE AND ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT
SPEAKERS: MOSIUOA LEKOTA AND TONY LEON
THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2015
SPEAKERS: JOHANN KRIEGLER AND ZAK YACOOB
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.
ANC Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe, accuses the Judiciary of “overreaching” and “contradicting the interest of the state versus judiciary”. He reportedly stated that “there is a drive in sections of the judiciary to create chaos for governance… if it doesn’t happen in the Western Cape High Court, it will happen in the Northern Gauteng – those are the two benches where you always see that the narrative is totally negative and create a contradiction.”
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes the release of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry’s report into the tragic incidents at the Lonmin Mine in Marikana, which led to the deaths of 44 people between 11 – 16 August 2012.
The CFCR also welcomes the recommendation made by the Commission that the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) ability to effectively deal with public order policing be reviewed and strengthened.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Good afternoon and thank you for the invitation to share this lunch and a few ideas with you.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights (the CFCR) welcomes a unanimous judgment handed down by a full bench of the Western Cape High Court preventing Members of Parliament from being arrested in the National Assembly or the National Council of Provinces (the NCOP).
