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"....
Letter To The President Regarding The SAPS Amendment Bill
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...
The Role Of The National Council Of Provinces In The Run Up To Mangaung
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...
The Bread Case
The "Bread Cartel Case" essentially involves two separate class actions, one on behalf of bread consumers nationwide and the other on behalf of bread distributors in the Western Cape. These actions have been launched against three of SA's largest bread producers,...
SAPS Amendment Bill 2012
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Letter to the Public Protector regarding the SAPS Amendment Bill
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...
An open letter to the Speaker of the National Assembly – June 2012
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 Irony In The Perfect Storm That’s Brewing
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...
Hawks In SAPS Are Neither Effective Nor Sufficiently Independent
The Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation or Hawks unit of South African Police Services (SAPS) does good work on priority crime. It does very limited work on corruption in high places because of its structural positioning and its operational constraints. As...
Hawks Or Eagles: What Does South Africa Deserve?
(Notes for an address to the Cape Town Press Club on 15 May, 2012) Hawks and Eagles are both raptors. They are birds of prey that live off the live victims of their predatory non-vegetarian appetites. Hawks are small, scarce and susceptible to poisoning. Eagles see...
IFAISA Submissions To The Constitutional Review Committee Of Parliament
Establishment of an Anti-Corruption Commission as a new Chapter Nine Institution. Superfluity of 100% proportional representation at this stage in the history of the democratic development of the nation. Dysfunctional nature of the Judicial Service Commission due to...
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
It is said that in politics a week is a long time. Last week was a short week, and this week is even shorter for some, given the way that the public holidays celebrating freedom day and workers' day have fallen this year. But for the members of the select committee of...
Parliament STIRS On Implementing The Glenister Judgment
In March last year the Constitutional Court found that the Hawks are not sufficiently operationally and structurally independent to constitute the type of anti-corruption entity which the human rights culture of the Constitution requires and which South Africa is...
The War Business Is Out-Of-Control
Address by Terry Crawford-Browne to Ceasefire Campaign workshop on the 2nd Global Day of Action on Military Spending, Johannesburg, April 17 2012 Almost a century ago, just before the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, a British parliamentarian, Philip Snowden...
Memorandum on the objects of the South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 2011
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