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  Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking – 24 April 2018 Last week Afriforum issued a threat that it will pursue a private prosecution of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Mr Julius Malema, on charges of money laundering, racketeering and corruption. The threat is a fundraising tactic, as Afriforum solicits money largely from conservative white people who view […]

  By Theuns Eloff: Executive Director, FW de Klerk Foundation 18 April 2018 A first national dialogue on land reform took place at the end of March in Johannesburg at the request of the ANC members of the Parliamentary Review Committee. This was ostensibly an attempt by the Ramaphosa faction within the ANC to wrest ownership of the process […]

If EWC were to be adopted, even in diluted form, it would be a body blow to the already battered national accord on which the new South Africa was founded.  The property clause was one of the most tightly negotiated compromises in the final constitution. Non-ANC parties conceded the principle of expropriation in the national […]

  Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking 11 April 2018 It is not surprising that former President Jacob Zuma has not provided any explanation for why he may be innocent of the recently reinstated charges of racketeering, corruption, money laundering and fraud. His lawyers have so far successfully managed to use technical legal arguments (as well as […]

The majority argued that section 25 offered sufficient recourse as it stands and must, for the first time, be properly be used to enable effective land reform. The minority of delegates, who did argue for an amendment, spoke only of an explanatory amendment, in line with the present section 25. By Theuns Eloff: Executive Director, […]

Joleen Steyn Kotze, Senior Research Specialist in Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State The Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s main political opposition party, has held its national congress and declared its readiness for the 2019 elections. It […]

Dirk Kotze, Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s court appearance carries huge significance for the country. That’s because his criminal trial is not merely about public outrage at state capture and corruption in high political offices. Nor is it just about Zuma facing the consequences of his […]

  Paul Hoffman SC, Director Accountability Now The question which may burn the green shoots of constitutionalism to cinders is whether the political will can be generated for the ANC to take the strong medicine of accountability for its institutional misdemeanours or “sins of incumbency” as they are sometimes called. March was a good month for […]

  ” … the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) inexplicably agreed to entertain further representations from Mr Zuma and his lawyers, ostensibly so that he would be able to consider afresh whether to drop the charges against Zuma.” Pierre de Vos, Constitutionally Speaking 28 March 2018 Former President Jacob Zuma will finally appear in court […]

Roger Southall, Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s new President, Cyril Ramaphosa, is presently receiving numerous plaudits on how he’s handling the transition from the troubled Jacob Zuma presidency. Zuma’s generals have been scattered, his underlings fleeing the battlefield. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, against whom Ramaphosa fought for the leadership and under whose wing […]