CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
STATEMENT: BEGIN AT HOME, MINISTER MOTSHEKGA
On 17 September, Minister for Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, announced that Kiswahili has been approved as a second language on offer to schools.
STATEMENT: WHAT IS ZUMA UP TO?
It might be easy to laugh off the comments about State capture in a lecture by former President Jacob Zuma in the Eastern Cape on 12 September as ludicrous, funny and weird – the rantings of a wounded former President. To say that the present crisis is a “politically-decorated expression of state capture” and there is no such thing as “State capture” while the work of the Zondo Commission (into State capture!) – and which he himself appointed – is underway, is nonsensical. At its best, it is a theoretical lesson in semantics, totally devoid of any realism. But that should not worry us. What is Zuma really up to – at worst?
ARTICLE: USE THE POWERS YOU POSSESS
The Joint Constitutional Review Committee was set up in the aftermath of the 27 February 2018 resolution in the National Assembly on expropriation without compensation (EWC).
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS
THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONAL NEGOTIATIONS Synopsis The negotiations had four distinct phases, each in its own way indispensable for the success of the process. The
THE KILLING OF FIVE TEENAGERS IN UMTATA ON 8 OCTOBER 1993
THE KILLING OF FIVE TEENAGERS IN UMTATA ON 8 OCTOBER 1993 RESPONSE OF THE FW DE KLERK FOUNDATION TO COMMENTS OF THE MPENDULO FAMILY The
THE BOIPATONG MASSACRE
THE BOIPATONG MASSACRE On 17 June 2020 the EFF issued a statement to mark the 28th anniversary of the Boipatong massacre. It stated that the
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
- Equality
- Non-racialism
- Gender Rights
- The Constitution
- The Rule of Law
- Multiparty Democracy
- Personal Rights
- Cultural, Religious and Language Rights
- Freedom of Expression and Political Rights
- Social and Economic Rights
- Property Rights
- Education
- Access To The Courts, Information And Fair Adminstration