The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual campaign that begins on 25th November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and concludes on 10th December, which is International Human Rights Day. It focuses on raising awareness about the devastating impact that gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) has on women and […]
Friday 18th November marked the official close of the two week long deliberations at the 27th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP27). COP27 took place on the African continent, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, starting on 6th November. Environment Digest 40 – COP27 – Reactions by Lovedonia […]
The Paris Agreement is a legally-binding interna- tional treaty on climate change. It was adopted by the 196 state parties to the United Nations Frame- work Convention on Climate Change at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21), on 12 Decem- ber 2015 in Paris, France. It officially came into force on 4 November 2016.1 […]
During the Transport Lekgotla held in 2005, October was declared ‘Transport Month’. According to the Department of Transport this month is used to raise awareness of the important role of transport in the economy and to encourage participation from civil society and business in the provision of a safe, affordable, accessible and reliable transport system.1 […]
A budget – even a mini-budget – is all about being able to finely balance all the competing priorities. To execute this balancing act, trade-offs need to be made, and this year’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, delivered on October 26th, was all about those trade-offs. Economic Digest 33 – Mini Budget 2022 by Kenny […]
Corruption, incompetence, patronage and misgovernance were never official policies of the governing ANC, but cadre deployment, which was and still is official policy, promoted and facilitated all of these. Once cadre deployment became the norm, the era of State Capture was a virtual inevitability. People appointed primarily on the basis of their party loyalty, rather […]
As issues around mobile people continue to be in the forefront of South African politics, it has been interesting to note two trends – seemingly going in somewhat different directions – emerging amongst cabinet ministers. While one should not read the statements of Ministers Phaahla and Cele as changes in the direction of policy with […]
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 […]
As part of his Heritage Day speech this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa emphasised that xenophobia has no place in our heritage. He said that South Africans were a welcoming and hospitable people: “Our heritage is also the best version of ourselves that we seek to become. I am referring here to ubuntu, which speaks to […]
High levels of crisis pregnancies in South Africa and limited options lead large numbers of desperate girls and women to abandon their babies in unsafe circumstances, or to seek late-term abortions, which often result in the mother’s death, over and above that of the baby. The availability of ‘baby savers’ as a safe relinquishment option […]
