CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
ARTICLE: NZIMANDE’S PLAN TO IMPOSE LANGUAGE UNIFORMITY ON OUR UNIVERSITIES
According to a statement made by the Minister of Higher Education, Blade Nzimande, during his budget debate earlier this week, “… we no longer have Afrikaans or Zulu or Tswana universities. All our universities are South African universities and must serve all the people of this country.”
STATEMENT: MANDELA DAY 2014
In celebration of the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela, former President De Klerk will be participating in a press event on Friday, 18 July to publicise the upcoming World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates.
ARTICLE: PROFESSOR JONATHAN JANSEN’S ACCUSATION THAT RIGHT-WING AFRIKANERS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF THE LATE PROF RUSSEL BOTMAN
Jonathan Jansen is one of our most outspoken and influential academic leaders. From time to time he has taken sensible and courageous decisions in navigating the minefield of transformational politics at his own university, the University of the Free State.
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STATEMENT: EFF INTIMIDATION OF JOURNALIST
Veteran journalist, Karima Brown, recently mistakenly posted a message on an EFF media WhatsApp group, advising journalists to “keep an eye out” for a “Breakfast with the Elderly” planned for Wednesday, 6 March. EFF leader, Julius Malema, responded angrily that Brown was not a journalist and implied that she must be “a mole” working for a security agency or for the ANC. After he had published her telephone number in a Tweet, some of his followers viciously abused Brown – calling her “an Indian whore and b****”, and threatening her with rape and death, and her family with violence.
The attack on Brown follows similar EFF attacks on other journalists, including Ranjeni Munusamy, Max du Preez and News24 editor, Adriaan Basson.
ARTICLE: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2019 #BALANCEFORBETTER
The theme for this year’s commemoration of International Women’s Day is #BalanceforBetter, a call for gender parity at all levels of socio-economic life. The theme addresses the lack of gender parity across the overwhelming majority of global business, government, in media coverage, wealth and even sports coverage. What this call highlights, is that at most socio-economic levels, women do not receive the same opportunities, pay or protection as their male peers. This discrimination is based solely on gender, which goes against the very tenets of equality.
ARTICLE: THE ANC GOVERNMENT IS PLAYING TRANSFORMATION GAMES WHILE ESKOM AND SOUTH AFRICA ARE LIGHTS OUT
Recently, Minister Pravin Gordhan said that former Eskom engineers who are now working abroad should be recalled to South Africa to help solve the crisis. Most of them are probably white.
In the same week, Rapport quoted Eskom’s own affirmative action plan, which outlines that by March 2020, there should be 1 308 fewer white employees (who are qualified) in its service. This includes 336 engineers and many middle managers – working where the essential maintenance work needs to be done.
Huh?
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