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Mark Swilling, Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development, Stellenbosch University It’s been almost a year since the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture in South Africa began to hear testimony. Also known as the Zondo Commission, it is headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who has listened to 130 days of live testimony […]

This report differs from the previous report on Pravin Gordhan as the report itself now contains an instruction that remedial action cannot be ignored while the court considers a review of the report. Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking – 8 July 2019 It is a truth universally acknowledged that, for many South Africans, neither the […]

Dr Theo de Jager, Board Chairman, SAAI – 2 July 2019 With a dramatic increase in farm attacks and murders, and while public discourse in this regard has been intensifying in South Africa as well as abroad, one of the most polarising issues is the question of whether this atrocity simply is an extension of […]

A fascinating book called How Democracy Dies by Ziblatt and Levitsky, warns of the electoral route to authoritarianism, and contains the following insight “the tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy, gradually, subtly, and even legally, to kill it”. I think we can relate […]