Despite initial promises that a national council would be set up by December to deal with gender-based violence (GBV), women’s rights groups say the government is still a long way off from fulfilling its promise. The National Strategic Plan (NSP) to stop gender-based violence, launched in March 2020 by President Cyril Ramaphosa, makes provision for the establishment of a National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide. The council would ensure implementation of the plan, and was supposed to be formed within six months.
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Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens
24 May 2021
In a remarkable display of legal gymnastics, parliament’s constitutional and legal services office has suggested that there is no problem with highly contested changes to the Traditional Courts Bill.
In a remarkable display of legal gymnastics, parliament’s constitutional and legal services office has suggested that there is no problem with highly contested changes to the Traditional Courts Bill.
To its credit, the portfolio committee of justice and correctional services has decided to seek an additional, external opinion on the matter after a presentation from a representative of the law adviser’s office to the committee on 14 May 2021. The presentation was supposed to clear up the question of whether the Bill was unconstitutional, despite removing the right of millions of citizens in the former homeland areas to opt out of traditional courts and choose to pursue justice through the magistrate’s cou
When the state is focused on executive governance by regulation, the craft of drafting good laws easily falls by the wayside. The making of three bills central to South African life dealing with land reform, police transformation and electoral reform illustrates the snags of lawmaking from the unprecedented to the pedestrian and the troubled.
The Unprecedented: Land Court Bill
Presently before the State Law Advisers for certification, or the official endorsement that the bill indeed meets all criteria of being a bill, this draft law is breaking with 26 years of constitutional democratic practice ditching departmental public consultations.
It’s unprecedented to skip this step.