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It is interesting that in the week in which the nineteenth anniversary of the attainment of freedom in South Africa is celebrated, President Jacob Zuma feels the need to defend the track record of the ANC government on corruption. The President is quite right to make...

It is so invigorating to read that the National Development Plan (NDP) is "seeking to grow the economy threefold in the next 17 years". [Business Report 7 March "NDP opens path to engage government"]. Planning Commissioner Bobby Godsell's invitation to "identify...

Businessman Hugh Glenister, on Saturday 29th September 2012, at an awards ceremony in Cape Town, honoured university students and civil society groups for their work in developing best practice implementations of the Constitutional Court's 'Glenister judgement'...

The winning entry in the Glenister Anti-Corruption Challenge submitted by Liezl Munnik and Nicolette Louw from the School of Public Leadership at the University of Stellenbosch. Submission to the Glenister Competition Frontpage Explanatory and Supplementary Notes to...

Team 'Justice League' from Rhodes University Law faculty and team 'Phoenix' from Rhodes University Humanities faculty were chosen as joint runners up. Team 'Justice League's' Entry Anti-Corruption Act Explanatory Memorandum Team 'Phoenix's' Entry The Independent...

An amendment to the South African Police Services Act, 1995, in order to align the provisions relating to the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation with a judgement of the Constitutional Court; to amend those provisions in order to ensure that the Directorate...

Fritz Jooste, Gregory Solik and Zenande Booi from Ndifuna Ukwazi, a non-profit organisation, were chosen as winners in the non-university category. Anti-Corruption Challenge submission by Ndifuna Ukwazi ("Dare to Know")

Paper delivered at the Towards Carnegie 3 conference at UCT (www.carnegie3.org.za) Introduction 1. The oft identified and so called "triple threats" (or threatening troika) facing South Africa in 2012 have been named as "poverty, inequality and unemployment"....

The purpose of this letter is to provide motivation for calling upon The President to exercise his responsibility under section 84(2)(c) of the Constitution by referring the SAPS Amendment Bill [B 7B-2012] ("the Bill") to the Constitutional Court for a decision on its...

Some observers are cynical about the role of parliament in South Africa today, both in general and in particular when it comes to the role of the upper house or National Council of Provinces (NCOP) to which legislation approved in the bigger National Assembly, or...

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The purpose of this letter is to lodge a complaint with both Chapter Nine Institutions about the manner in which the executive and legislative branches of government are going about remedying the defect in the legislation struck down in J251 order 5, namely that the...

Dear Mr Speaker, Forgive my impertinence, but I have to tell you (and everyone else) that when I read of your castigation of the honourable members of parliament over whom you even-handedly preside in your official capacity, I was seized by the urge to yell out: "Give...

The Constitutional Court requires that our South African anti-corruption entity should be adequately independent both structurally and operationally. It has given Parliament until September to come up with a constitutionally compliant and reasonable formula for...