A new report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) argues that the strong protections for civil liberty in the Constitution are not always acknowledged or properly applied by the courts.
The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) will host an online media briefing on Wednesday at 10am on its latest report, Civil Liberty in South Africa: Freedom Under Law Three Decades After Apartheid.
Both federation and devolution are concepts of political decentralisation. The pitfalls of centralisation have been well-documented, but briefly, when a society (or any other social unit) places some important good or service – electricity comes to mind – under the control of a single institution, and hence a single point of potential failure, that represents a significant risk.