Constitution places national and provincial legislatures under obligation to facilitate public involvement in their legislative and other processes.
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.
Education MEC Panyana Lesufi has lost a titanic struggle to admit 55 English-speaking learners to an Afrikaans medium high school.
An interesting, informative and necessary debate is occurring in the leadership of the DA on the juxtaposing of white privilege and black poverty.
Although such violent protests cannot be condoned, it is necessary to ask why they are occurring and what should be done in response to them.
What also emerges is that the credibility of President Zuma is increasingly untenable and he has become a liability for the ANC.
A coup rarely alters a nation’s fundamental social and economic policies instantaneously, nor does it significantly redistribute power.
There needs to be meaningful consultation to find solutions to problems that plague dysfunctional schools without harming those operating successfully.
President Jacob Zuma is playing a dangerous and manipulative strategy to evade at every cost legal and constitutional accountability.
Political and social integrity and non-racialism must triumph over political expediency and naked political ambition, based on racial nationalism.
Within the ANC there is unprecedented instability and a real danger of some kind of political implosion.
In Zimbabwe the policies of Mugabe have indeed destroyed the economy of that country. In this regard Mantashe is correct.
It makes our jurisprudence and that of Kenya interesting, and is an indication that democracy is working in both countries on the African continent.
At this juncture of our post-apartheid history, we dare not neglect our responsibility morally, socially and politically to our children.
An obsession with problems related to President Jacob Zuma has led to other seminal issues, such as poverty alleviation, not being meaningfully addressed.
The ANC has also called for Parliament to make it a punishable offence for political parties to abuse the courts.
Significantly, not only the fate of President Jacob Zuma, but that of the country, depends on the ruling on a secret no-confidence ballot.
To understand the no-confidence motion, it is necessary to comprehend the difference between presidential and parliamentary systems of government.
In a liberal democracy, such as prevails in South Africa, Parliament cannot fall under the monopoly of one party, or of the executive authority of the day.
The Gauteng mental health project, in which at least 94 mentally ill patients died in appalling conditions, is a tragedy of the first order.
According to Mzwanele (Jimmy) Manyi, South Africa must abandon its constitution and embrace a majoritarian parliamentary system in order to address the socio-economic ...
Parliament has started the process of finding a suitable person for the Office of the Public Protector, which plays a seminal role in the functioning of our constitutional ...
THE Constitutional Court’s historic judgment relating to President Zuma and the Nkandla debacle is a watershed in our constitutional development and jurisprudence. ...
I refer to the meritorious letter in the Cape Times, “Rhodes Must Fall folly now spreads”, by FW de Klerk, former state president.
Judges are the flaming stars in our constitutional firmament and deserve our unqualified support, says George Devenish.