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Only 4.6% of home robberies and 2.3% of carjackings result in convictions Guy Lamb, Director, Safety and Violence Initiaitive, University of Cape Town 21 February 2020 In February last year South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that his government would pursue five fundamental goals over the next decade. One of these was particularly bold, namely […]

Theunis Roux, Professor of Law, UNSW It is hard to comment on a draft constitutional amendment that is apparently not in its final form. But the stakes surrounding the proposed change to section 25 of South Africa’s constitution are too high to wait until the governing African National Congress (ANC) sets out exactly how it […]

Susan Booysen, Research director at Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra), Visiting Professor and Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand The spotlight will be firmly on South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as he runs the gauntlet of delivering the annual state of the nation address on behalf of the governing party, African National Congress (ANC), […]

The ANC’s NEC has, at its recent lekgotla, stated that it wants the ANC Executive to decide on when expropriated land should be subject to nil compensation (and not the courts, as the amendment reads at present). Theuns Eloff: Chair, FW de Klerk Foundation Board of Advisers – February 2020 The deadline for comments on […]