Two groups of experts from different parts of the world agree that extreme poverty and all its accompaniments-malnutrition, overcrowding or homelessness, addiction, and lack of access to health care-is the major driving force underlying the presence and spread of tuberculosis, including the current increases in tuberculosis caused by multiple drug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant strains. […]
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Kader Asmal Calls For The Scrapping Of The National Democratic Revolution
It should not be allowed to pass unnoticed that Professor Kader Asmal, an architect of the constitution, a former cabinet member under two Presidents, and an ANC stalwart, has used the opportunity presented by the conference on ethics in public life held in Cape Town in October 2010 to call for the scrapping of the […]
Grootboom To Hangberg – Access To Adequate Housing
The South African constitution is brief and to the point when it comes to the right to housing. It guarantees everyone the right to have “access to adequate housing”. The state is enjoined to “take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to achieve the progressive realisation of this right.” No one may […]
Strikes In Essential Services
Introduction Strikes, all too often accompanied by violence, are common in essential services in South Africa, as the recent public sector strike demonstrates. The purpose of this paper is to explore the legality of these strikes and to suggest what the law could do to better manage them. Essential Services and the Right to Strike […]
The Calling Of Professional Public Servants
An extract from the address of the Reverend Professor Peter Storey on Sunday 22nd August, preaching at a service commemorating the life of his late brother-in-law the Reverend Paul Welsh: “Frederich Beuchner says, ‘The vocation for you is the one in which your deepest gladness and the world’s deep need meet – something that not […]
The Respondents’ Heads of Argument
The case in the Constitutional Court of South Africa between Hugh Glenister and the State download
The Education Debate
Everyone in SA, child and adult alike, is entitled to a basic education according to our Bill of Rights – no ifs, no buts. In the first year of our current Constitution 1,19 million black learners entered the public school system in grade 1, most seeking the “quality education” that would lift them from poverty, […]
Striking Efficiently
Only two weeks before the kick-off of the world soccer spectacular, a deal was struck that ended almost four weeks of national disruption, untold economic damage and widespread anger attributable to strikes in the transport sector. Since then the nation has seen nothing but a show of national spirit, unity and support for Bafana Bafana […]
Striking Interminably: There Has To Be A Better Way
The Transnet strike by SATAWU seems to have taken forever; 18 days is certainly unduly long. UTATA cleverly settled its parallel strike on the basis that if the strike by SATAWU led to a better deal than the one that brought its similar strike to a swift end, its members would be given the benefit […]
Jimmy Manyi: An Intractable Conflict Of Interest
The Director General of Labour, Jimmy Manyi is an ebullient, energetic and assertive senior public servant whose urbane skills would be an asset to any government department anywhere in the world. His Minister is satisfied that he was the best candidate available for the post and he has applied himself vigorously to his responsibilities in […]
