US justice authorities’ deadly earnest suggests that sooner or later they will train a spotlight on our administrators and politicians.
Given the faction-ridden nature of South African politics and the deep divisions in the ANC, a further turn of the wheel is quite conceivable.
Given the faction-ridden nature of South African politics and the deep divisions in the ANC a further turn of the wheel is quite conceivable.
A lack of maths and science education directly affects the quality of life of young people trying to lift themselves out of poverty.
Some of those who abhor classical liberalism are in fact liberals at heart – they just don’t know it.
It’s disconcerting when our Constitution’s founding mothers misconstrue the rationale behind constitutional guarantees of MPs’ freedom of speech.
Lingering suspicions are extremely damaging to Sars, one of the few state institutions to have retained a reputation for integrity.
The Constitutional Court must indeed rule on the matter of doctor-assisted dying, if only because of the need for a national rule.
Poverty levels have dropped but 20% of South Africans are still extremely poor. This is unacceptable for a 21-year-old upper-middle-income country.
We should never forget that our Constitution was designed to prevent the state from violating the rights of citizens and that includes crime suspects.