KZN ANC premier Sihle Zikalala must be complimented for saying the quiet part out aloud: he wants the constitution removed so he can exercise unrestrained power and by embracing black majority rule, shows he rejects non-racialism (The Mercury...
History shows that crises are exploited by governments to extend authoritarianism. When that occurs, civil liberties suffer. The peremptory declaration by the KZN Premier Sihle Zikalala that all those who test Covid-19 positive will be forced...
It is a pity that anti-Trump sentiment, as exemplified by the December 20 editorial viewpoint, has blurred The Witness’s grasp on the flawed realities of the vote to impeach President Trump. It is the standard partisan practice to accuse...
The outrage and hand-wringing at the release of the latest crime statistics adds nothing to deterring the tsunami of violent crime that prevails (The Witness, September 13). The reactions of the different party spokesmen on the subject read like...
In his attempt to assert that capital punishment will not materialise in South Africa (Star, June 6), Dougie Oakes ignores the relationship between constitutionality and democracy within the context of moral order. Given the increasing impunity...
Constitutional scholar, George Devenish, asserts that South Africa’s socio-economic inequality is not due to the failure of the constitution but is a consequence of, inter alia, maladministration and corruption (Mercury, April 30). But...
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