Daily Maverick’s regular columnist on matters legal, known only by his or her
nom de plume “Professor Balthazar”, has strayed from the paths of constitutionalism in a column, published on 14 January, to which this response is akin to a trout rising to a well-cast fly on a tranquil pond.
Here is the problem with the anti-lawfare attitude of the learned professor: when SA turned its back on the parliamentary sovereignty of the apartheid era and replaced its more odious features with a supreme Constitution which itself regards the rule of law as supreme, a fundamental change in the system of governance in SA was made (judging by the portrait of an ageing Einstein lookalike that Balthazar uses, it is safe to assume that these changes occurred long after the professor left law school.)
WCED pressed to release report into Brackenfell High School matric event
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town – The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is under pressure to release the investigative report into the Brackenfell High School matric ball incident after it found no racist motives behind it.
The department said last week the report contained confidential or sensitive information and it would not be appropriate to release it.
The EFF said it was not surprised by Education MEC Debbie Schäfer’s decision not to release the investigative report. The EFF, ANC and other organisations has lodged an Promotion for Access to Information Act (PAIA), application in a bid to gain access to the report.