It is probably fair to say that most people would have expected President Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint Judge Mandisa Maya as the next Chief Justice of South Africa. Not only was she a very strong candidate, there was also widespread support for having a woman at the head of the judicial arm of government for […]
Prudent. Relaxed. Short. This Budget Speech was all three of these, and all round a good debut for the new Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana. Response The 2022 Budget by Mike Pothier
Last night’s State of the Nation Address contained one of the longest ‘shopping lists’ of economic measures that we have heard for some time from a President. In one way this is fitting, since the solutions to so many of the problems that beset our nation – poverty, inequality, unemployment, underdevelopment, and general socio-economic want […]
In a Response published last September with the title ‘Choosing the New Chief Justice’, we wrote that President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to allow public participation in the selection process was “a significant and welcome development”. Since the Constitution gives the President the power to make the appointment without such participation, it was “a voluntary concession […]
