Martin van Staden

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

A chorus of voices from the mainstream media, certain business groups, the ANC-controlled GNU, and even the DA, have told the public, “Relax – everything

The nature and history of the African National Congress (ANC) cannot be discounted when reading the text of the new Expropriation Act. The rule of

“An enemy without a name is impossible to defeat on the battleground of ideas,” writes Andrew Doyle in his The New Puritans (2023). Those who