South Africa’s growing agitation with undocumented African migrants has long been a prickly issue, that some in the ANC describe as an albatross around the party’s neck that must be resolved before the 2024 national elections.
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has hit back at the foundation for its legal bid to stop the termination of the Zimbabwean exemption permit.
Around 180 000 Zimbabweans will have to find another way of regularising their stay after the permit expires in December.
South Africans have learnt that democracy isn’t a destination that they reached with the formal end of apartheid, it's a lifelong quest to keep up the pressure against corruption, and on elected representatives to deliver on their promises.
CEO of the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa), Wayne Duvenage, said that a number of private companies initiated and participated in corrupt arrangements due to the loopholes or the absence of internal safeguards.
The Pretoria High Court has ordered former Presisdent Jacob Zuma to return to prison and serve his 15-month contempt sentence.
The High Court in Pretoria heard an urgent application on Tuesday by the Helen Suzman Foundation, Afriforum and the DA to have the decision to grant Zuma medical parole set aside.
The former President Jacob Zuma's medical parole was challenged in the Gauteng division of the High Court by the Democratic Alliance, Helen Suzman Foundation and AfriForum. Judgment was reserved. #Zuma
The foundation together with AfriForum and the Democratic Alliance are challenging former correctional services boss Arthur Fraser's decision to release Zuma on medical parole in September.
The Helen Suzman Foundation, AfriForum and the Democratic Alliance are challenging former President Jacob Zuma's release on medical parole in September after he was imprisoned for contempt of court in July.
The organisation has raised issues with the records in office of both candidates, saying they were unfit for the position of Chief Justice.
The foundation launched a legal challenge in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday, saying the former president's parole - which was granted last week - was unconstitutionally authorised.
In a lawyers’ letter fired off this week, the foundation has given both Correctional Services Minister Ronald Lamola and Commissioner Arthur Fraser. until 5 pm on Monday to explain the decision to grant Jacob Zuma medical parole.
Legal researcher at the Helen Suzman Foundation, Christopher Fisher, said that the government did its job in terms of carrying out the order of the Constitutional Court.
Jacob Zuma approached the court following a scathing apex court judgment that found him guilty of being in a contempt of a ruling that said he must appear and participate at the state capture commission.
Parliament has continued public hearings into land expropriation without compensation and members of the public and affected parties have been offered another opportunity to make their voices heard following three previous rounds of public hearings over the past three years.
The Helen Suzman Foundation wants lawmakers to come up with special legislation to govern the state’s fight against the pandemic.
The Gauteng Division of the High Court has on Thursday heard an urgent application seeking an order directing Parliament to pass special legislation for management of COVID-19 in South Africa.
