Two key draft laws advance the NDR, but threaten SA democracy – IRR
21 September 2022 - Two key pieces of legislation signed off by parliamentary committees yesterday proceed in lockstep in advancing the National Democratic Revolution, posing an existential risk to South Africa’s constitutional democracy.
IRR warns of serious deficiencies in Unlawful Entering on Premises Bill
20 September 2022 - The grave risks associated with the mounting threat of land invasions means that serious deficiencies in the Unlawful Entering on Premises Bill of 2022 need urgent attention if the law is to properly serve the public interest.
20 September 2022 - One of South Africa’s diminishing band of the super-rich, Rob Hersov, set tongues a-wagging and feathers a-ruffling last week with his comments about the depressing state of the country, and his, ahhh, perspectives on what has brought it to this point. ‘Corrupt clowns, criminals … Cyril’s clown Cabinet,’ he declaimed. Some in this circus are older, some younger, ‘but all of them are incompetent.’ The President – dare one say Ringmaster to all this? – was a ‘useless, spineless failure’.
18 September 2022 - The idea of instant gratification is probably most easily mocked only by those of us for whom the prospect of having to put off getting what we want most, reasonably speaking, is made that much more bearable by the certainty that getting it eventually is not wholly unrealistic.
ANC stalls at final EWC committee phase
15 September 2022 - The ANC yesterday stalled at the final committee phase of the Expropriation Bill – intended to introduce controversial expropriation-without-compensation (EWC) provisions – seemingly because it felt the committee needed to “take a final relook at the report”.
14 September 2022 - "Custodial takings" of private property is the enormous threat to the economy posed by the Expropriation Bill, the draft law set to be considered this week by the portfolio committee on public works and infrastructure, and likely sent on to the National Assembly for its endorsement.
14 September 2022 - The recent news that Mosiuoa Lekota, leader of the Congress of the People (Cope), was removed as head of the party is just the latest in the sorry tale of what was once regarded one of South Africa's greatest political hopes.
IRR sends MPs 11th hour plea to cut EWC provisions
13 September 2022 - Every member of the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure was sent a letter today from the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) urging them on the eve of their final discussion of the Expropriation Bill to delete no-compensation provisions that pose an existential threat to all South Africans’ property rights.
3 August 2022 - Eight years ago former President Jacob Zuma said the ANC will rule “forever and ever”. That is looking increasingly unlikely.
13 September 2022 - In the coming days, on the 14th to be precise, the Parliamentary Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure will decide on the wording of the New Expropriation Bill.
12 September 2022 - Your editorial is correct that the ANC’s resolution to push expropriation without compensation (EWC) was “ill-advised”, but incorrect that it “has stalled and is unlikely to see the light of day” (“Ramaphosa’s crisis of inertia,” September 12).
12 September 2022 - In view of the extent of violent crime in South Africa, and specifically the recent spate of horrific tavern shootings, there have been renewed calls for expanded and more rigid firearm control. Some, like News24's Adriaan Basson, have suggested a near complete ban on civilian gun ownership, along the lines of the Japanese model. Police Minister Bheki Cele has long expressed similar intentions, and a proposed amendment to the Firearms Control Act (FCA) would push South Africa along the path to this objective.
