The lockdown, the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and the subsequent regulations for the lockdown are most certainly going to precipitate litigation ...
It has been reported in the media (African News Agency, 29/11/2019) that the Minister of Transport Fikele Mbalula crossed swords in no uncertain terms ...
The newly elected interim leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), John Steenhuisen, recently ...
Although South Africa is a country of infinite potential, as a nation we are in a serious state of chronic political and economic crisis. This is unfortunately being ...
Like millions of other South African not only in your own party, but from other enlightened parties and political persuasions I pen this open letter to you. We believe ...
I refer to Mikhael Petersen’s op-ed on 7 June ‘Why does history judge FW de Klerk so lightly?’ In this piece Petersen refers to certain isolated comments attributed ...
In mature democratic states, like those of Western Europe and North America, the members of the public administration serve the interest of the people and the country ...
Section 16 of the Constitution which addresses freedom of expression declares that everyone has this right which, inter alia, includes:…academic freedom and freedom ...
Section 16 explicitly mentions that freedom of expression includes ‘freedom of the press and other media’. Press freedom is an essential for freedom of expression ...
In a very important constitutional matter argued in the Constitutional Court on Thursday last week the apex Court in South Africa reserved judgement. The matter ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered an impressive and courageous State of Nation Address last Thursday. It was manifestly clear he was speaking as the President ...
The term demarche has its origin in French, the literal meaning of which is ‘step’ or ‘solicitation’ and has come to refer to, inter alia, a formal diplomatic representation ...
It has been reported in the media (The Star 24 January 2019) that ‘South Africa to do what it can to help Zim neighbours’. In the same newspaper it is reported that ...
South Africa is in election mode in the run up to the general election in May this year, which is likely to be highly contested. The leader of the ruling ANC and ...
There can be no doubt that 2019 will be a watershed year for the future of South Africa. The year 2018 ushered in the Ramaphosa administration with the promise of ...
As nation we have commemorated the 16 December as Reconciliation day. From about 1986 when Nelson Mandela was in Pollsmoor prison he began a process of reconciliation ...
Malema?s fascist tactics at the state capture enquiry are undermining the rule of law in South Africa, says the writer.
Commissions of Inquiry take place in terms of the Commissions Act 8 of 1947. Although it is a short piece of legislation it is an important one and it has been extensively ...
Constitution places national and provincial legislatures under obligation to facilitate public involvement in their legislative and other processes.
Democracy has its genesis in the ancient Athens in late 5th century BCE, where for the first time direct democracy was conceived and practised by allowing all male ...
Although our Constitution of 1996 makes a fundamental break with the concept and practice of parliamentary sovereignty, which is one of the definitive characteristics ...
The factions associated with Ramaphosa and Zuma are probably incompatible and at some time in the future there must be a parting of the ways.
The supreme South African Constitution makes the status of non-racialism categorically clear by declaring in section 1, dealing with the fundamental values on which ...
Professionalism of any kind involves, inter alia, the twin concepts of competence and integrity. These two concepts and their requirements are examined below in ...
In the run up to the general election of 2019 and in the discourse and discussions relating to the controversial issue of expropriation of land without compensation ...