Despite the customary shambolic start, with registrations and opening speeches running many hours behind schedule, the ANC’s 55th National Conference completed its main task – the election of a national leadership core – surprisingly smoothly and without obvious rancour. Democracy Digest 8 – The ANCs National Conference by Mike Pothier 2
Despite the customary shambolic start, with registrations and opening speeches running many hours behind schedule, the ANC’s 55th National Conference completed its main task – the election of a national leadership core – surprisingly smoothly and without obvious rancour. Democracy Digest 8 – The ANCs National Conference by Mike Pothier 2
In June 2020, in the case of New Nation Movement NPC & others v President of the Republic of South Africa & others [2020] ZACC 11, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Electoral Act 73 of 1998 was unconstitutional to the extent that it allowed for citizens to be elected to the National Assembly and […]
According to the government, South Africa’s abstention in the UN General Assembly’s vote to call for an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine was motivated by principle. The Deputy-Minister of International Relations and Co-operation, Candith Mashego-Dlamini, told Parliament that “South Africa “stands by its principled position of peaceful resolution of conflict.” All parties to […]
