This well-publicised case highlights some serious concerns in the way that state-owned entities work (or don’t work, as the case may be). And highlights once again how important and, indeed, indispensable, our courts and the all-important Constitution are in upholding the law and ensuring justice is served in South Africa. In the matter of South African…
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Who can forget that fateful day of the 2015 State of the Nation Address when the Economic Freedom Fighters were forcibly removed from the National Assembly? In authorising the brutal ejectment of the EFF from the National Assembly, the speaker relied on an Act of Parliament bearing the rather long-winded name of “Powers, Privileges and…
The year: 2015 The event: State of the Nation Address The issue: Use of jamming devices by Parliament The reason: Preventing the South African public from witnessing the spectacle that was about to unfold The 2015 SONA will go down as one of the most interesting, and disturbing in living memory. Can you remember what President…