South African Constitution

bolshie bob wants to revitalise apartheid legislation

They say that those in power eventually revert to the ways of their former opponents or oppressors. It was Pete Townsend who carved those immortal lines "meet the new boss, just like the old boss" into rock history in 1971.  This is an application of "the more things change, the more they stay the same". […]

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Limits to restitutive policies. BDlive Editorial

there is now a firmly established judicial precedent that frowns upon the use of rigid racial or gender quotas to achieve affirmative action goals. While the constitution acknowledges the need for policies to address the legacy of apartheid, to be legal such discrimination on the basis of race must be "fair", which implies that attempts

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Races cannot be classified, court hears

CLASSIFYING people in accordance with their race is "legally impossible", says trade union Solidarity in court papers challenging the constitutionality of an affirmative action policy. The aim of the policy is to address the fact that the lucrative liquidation industry still remains largely a white, male enclave. But the implication of Solidarity’s argument is that

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African Mole and the Constitution – open Sesame

The Army Gymnasium in Heidelberg was graced with two special people in 1986, MC Snyman and an Adrian Molalike known as Fourie. MC Snyman is an institution but little is known about Fourie so I'll talk about him. Fourie was an avid fan of Eugene Terreblanche and the AWB. The wonderful contradiction was that he

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