In what is no doubt a major victory for openness and transparency in parliamentary proceedings, the SCA today ruled that both the use of a signal jamming device, and the manner in which the shenanigans of MPs during SONA 2015 were…
The legislature has approved the appointment of Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane as the new Public Protector. Her appointment was supported by a large majority of votes, with the Democratic Alliance opposing it due to questions about her past involvement with the State…
Did you know that you as a private citizen are, in certain circumstances, entitled to prosecute an accused if the state declines to do so? This has been a part of our Criminal Procedure Act for years and yet one…
The Constitutional Court is currently faced with making an interesting decision on the law relating to intestate succession as applied to same-sex couples who are not in a valid civil union. When a person dies without leaving a valid will,…
The heat was well and truly on all the way through Thursday 11 August into the early hours of Friday the 12th, as fourteen Public Protector hopefuls battled it out with the ad hoc parliamentary committee mulling the replacement of…
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