CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
ARTICLES AND STATEMENTS
PODCASTS
SUBMISSIONS
SPEECHES
EVENTS
ARTICLE: HERITAGE DAY 2013: NOT JUST ANOTHER WALK (BRAAI) IN THE PARK?
One of the most important aspects recognised in the Constitution of South Africa, is the importance of our collective heritage and the rich cultural, linguistic and historical diversity of our people.
This includes the heritage of all our peoples – from the first nations of South Africa – the KhoiKhoi, Nama and San; our indigenous African peoples – the Zulus, Xhosas, Ndebeles and Swazis; the Tswana, Pedi and South Sotho, Tsonga and Venda; white South Africans descended from the Dutch, English, German and French settlers; our extended coloured community; to the Asians who arrived from the Dutch East Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries, and from India during the 19th century.
ARTICLE: ECONOMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS – AN INCONSEQUENTIAL INTERPRETATION
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) was established earlier this year by ousted African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) leader, Julius Malema and others with the objective of “pursuing the struggle for economic emancipation”. The EFF is now applying to the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for registration as a political party. Although, according to their “Founding Manifesto”, the EFF will “contest political power…in order to capture the state”, their “primary role of mass organisation and activism, as a means to raise the political consciousness of the people, will remain the bedrock of [their] political practice”.
STATEMENT: FW DE KLERK TALKS ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA’S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
In a speech on 13 September 2013 at the Nedbank SA Charity Golf Day at Foxhills resort in England, FW de Klerk shared his views on South Africa’s past, present and future.
He said that he could recall no time since 1994 when so many South Africans had been so despondent. He added that “we should remember 1994 – not only because it was the birth of our new society – but because it provides an important reminder that we South Africans have the ability to solve even the most intractable problems”.
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