CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
SUBMISSION: LETTER TO THE EDITOR, SOWETAN
Dear Madam/Sir
REACTING TO RACISM
The editorial entitled “React to Racism” (Sowetan, 7 October 2013) asserts “white South Africans must condemn racism in the same way that black South Africans invariably the victims do” and asks what the FW de Klerk Foundation, among others, is saying about the matter.
ARTICLE: CHURCH AND STATE
No doubt to the alarm of his minders and keepers, President Zuma deviated from the prepared text of his speech yesterday to the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Giyani, Limpopo. His speech should have been suitably innocuous – with a nod to the older generation on International Grandparents Day, exhortations to the youth and the expression of justifiable pride in the fact that the number of children infected with HIV within the East and Southern African region has more than halved in the past 10 years. There was only one reference to “apartheid colonialism” – and for the rest, the tone of the speech was suitably presidential.
CASE DISCUSSION: SCHOOL GOVERNING BODIES AND ADMISSION POLICY: MEC FOR EDUCATION IN GAUTENG V RIVONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
On 3 October 2013, the Constitutional Court upheld, in part, an appeal against a judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal that is of core importance to South African education, school governing bodies (SGBs), as well as public single-medium schools.
The matter rested upon determination of the question of who has the final say in determining admission policy in South Africa’s public schools: schools and their SGBs or provincial departments of education?
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