Martin van Staden

“We need municipal authorisation,” is a common line heard from community organisers that on its face appears innocuous but might increasingly hold deadly consequences. What will

AfriForum has for many years been waging a lonely war against South African journalists and “fact-checkers” peddling the myth of white genocide but attributing it

The past few weeks have seen a wave of critical commentary targeting the IRR’s Index of Race Law, an initiative I have had the privilege

On 21 March, Julius Malema celebrated Human Rights Day by once again inciting the killings of (primarily white) farmers. The Supreme Court of Appeal last

The Index of Race Law was launched to little fanfare in December 2022 by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), as the only up-to-date and

Without courts that are respected and obeyed, constitutionalism – as a limitation on state scope and power – cannot work. But this principle can be

Democracy depends on accountability, and that depends on allowing ordinary people to vociferously criticise government and bring pressure to bear on it to change. The

Section 25 of the Constitution is, to many legal thinkers and judges, an inkblot in the constitutional text – it is the disfavoured right. Much

To Pierre de Vos and other transformationists like Karl Klare and Dennis Davis, the world is government’s oyster, and the state may grab words appearing

Pierre de Vos, a well-known legal commentator, warns in Daily Maverick that, “Constitutional nuances [are] lost in alarmist, misleading debate around the Expropriation Act.” In