ANC MPs have dismissed the Zondo Commission’s recommendation for opposition legislators to chair some parliamentary committees, and are tactically dithering on the recommendation to establish an oversight committee on the Presidency that is increasingly centralising powers.
The activist spirit of the Human Rights Festival contrasted with the officious and legalistic posture of the National Conference on the Constitution. They need to work together to be effective.
Two articles by South African communist Paul Trewhela on the 27 maio 1977 massacre in Angola. Paul Trewhela was a member of the South African communist party in the mid-'60s, was imprisoned for three years, then worked with Baruch Hirson in exile.
Open Secrets and Shadow World Investigations want the two judges to be called before the Judicial Conduct Committee to account for "their failure to adequately investigate the arms deal".
A special provincial funeral will be held for anti-apartheid activist Peter Jones, who was part of establishing the first branch of the Black People's Convention in the Western Cape.