The politicians who removed Zuma are likely to be running the government for the next five years. Current events were their first test and offered a hint of how the country may be governed.
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Arbitration hearings into the deaths of mentally ill patients has brought to light shocking cruelty and neglect on the part of South African officials.
President Jacob Zuma’s camp is pushing to have him replaced by an interim leader as an excuse to prolong his disastrous rule for their own benefit.
South Africa’s ruling ANC has a new leader - Cyril Ramaphosa. But this doesn’t mean that the country is out of the woods. Political instability remains a real possibility.
As South Africa marks Media Freedom Day, it’s clear that its battle isn’t over. Attacks on journalists continue –through physical intimidation and there’s also the threat of new laws.
The National Question cannot be resolved solely through South Africa’s constitution. There’s potential for a far more radical transformative project than traditional liberalism.
Medical mediation has become a buzzword in health departments across the world as an alternative to taking legal action to solve disputes.
After South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994, the previously oppressed and dispossessed black majority hoped for constitutional restitution of their land. This has largely failed.
The judgment recognises that religion plays a large role in South African society. The right to follow a religion is embedded in the constitution. This means that South Africa isn’t a secular state.
South Africa’s democracy is in trouble. But the challenge is less about who should control state institutions, and more about how they can be refashioned to deliver to the poor.
Sexual equality should not be mere letters and words in laws. Rather, people - in this case student teachers - must understand sexual equality as a lived reality.
South Africa’s problem is that its constitution is a perfect brochure of the nation it aspires to be. But the contractors entrusted with its future have an entirely different project in mind.
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Fort Hare
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Professor in Political Science, University of South Africa
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Associate Professor of Law, North-West University
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Professor Emeritus of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Associate researcher, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, New York Law School
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Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University
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Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Political Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor and H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
