x Bookmark In her 1983 essay, ‘Living in the Interregnum’, Nadine Gordimer quotes Antonio Gramsci: ‘The old is dying, and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum there arises […]
Read morex Bookmark New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution and Another as […]
Read morex Bookmark In a string of recent judgments dealing with the South African Revenue Service (Sars) appointing agents to collect outstanding tax debts, the case of Barnard Labuschagne Inc v […]
Read morex Bookmark On 15 March, the South African government declared a national state of disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002 (the Act). On 23 March, […]
Read morex Bookmark The simple difficulty with the plenary jurisdiction argument is that it avoids the most important word in s 167(3)(b)(ii) of the Constitution, viz ‘if’. In short, the conditional […]
Read morex Bookmark Section 216(1) of the Constitution provides that national legislation must establish a national treasury and prescribe measures to ensure both transparency and expenditure control in each sphere of […]
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Read morex Bookmark In terms of s 15(1) of the Constitution ‘[e]veryone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion’ and in s 31(1) it provides that […]
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