Category Archives: Constitutionalism

Cameron Brisbane, Electricity tariffs- the great deception

http://sacsis.org.za/site/article/1902

Raymond Suttner, Realignments in South African politics

http://www.polity.org.za/article/realignments-in-south-african-politics-2014-01-29

Raymond Suttner interview on current situation with Creamer Media’s Polity

General council of the bar slams government for silence over homophobic steps on the continent

Govt criticised for silence on anti-gay legislation

Amandla Marikana! by All Clear band (lyrics by Allan Kolski Horwitz)

Lyrics Continue reading →

Greg Nicolson, on Durban Deep police killing

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-24-durban-deep-in-photos-another-day-another-police-victim/#.UuIQbv2asy5

State action used to threaten those who may not give Zuma warm reception in Eastern Cape

Note how police are present and those who are not inlined to give Number one a warm reception are threatened not only with organisational discipline but the arm of the state

http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/boo-face-arrest-eastern-cape-anc-warns-members/

Magistrates attacked for treatment of rape complainants

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/22/like-being-raped-all-over-again

Human rights watch slam SA police as ‘human rights threat’

There was a time during the struggle against apartheid when Human Rights Watch exposed the repression of the apartheid regime. Continue reading →

The murky background to water shortage and killings in Mothutlung

Mothotlung water shortages shrouded in murk

Securing licence for Goldfields costs shareholders millions in shares to associates of former gangster Gayton McK

Gold Fields: Ex-con McKenzie’s cronies given R330m

Pierre de Vos, Water is life, but the struggle for it is deadly

Important location of the battle for water in Mothutlung that has already cost three lives, allegedly as a result of police violence, in the context of constitutional rights, in the Bill of Rights and in judgments of the Constitutional court

 

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2014-01-15-water-is-life-but-the-struggle-for-it-is-deadly/#.Utf0ef3H1SV

Bling queen off hook as state messes up case

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/16/bling-queen-off-hook-as-state-messes-up-the-case

Brits Financial mismanagement and water supply failure not new

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/2014/01/16/brits-tragedy-was-a-long-time-coming

Mothultlung: where death is delivered faster than service

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-16-mothutlung-where-death-is-delivered-faster-than-service/#.UtfOI_3H1SV

3 people killed by police, while water supply is sabotaged and water tank suppliers provide water whose quality is questioned

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/16/dirty-water-scandal

Continued protests over lack of water and police violence and killings in Mothutlung, outside Brits.

Protests continue and police appear to have thrown a man out of a Nyala leading to his sustaining severe head injuries

http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/cops-are-killing-us-1.1631690#.UtYj2v3H1SU

Rebecca Davis and Thapelo Lekgowa, Dying for water in Brits: Protestors’ blood flows again

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-14-dying-for-water-in-brits-protestors-blood-flows-again/#.UtTRDf3H1SU

Police under fire for excessive force

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/01/14/cops-crowd-control-over-the-top

Pollice in Tshwane Metro kill hawker without facing charges

Jan Rivombo a hawker was apparently killed when refusing to hand over fruit without any form of receipt to Tshwane Metro police. He joins a long line of people who have died in the last few year at the hands of the police, apparently for reasons that did not require the use of deadly force.  No one has been charged with the offence, giving a sense that lawlessness is widely tolerated

 

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2014-01-13-analysis-never-forget-jan-rivombo/#.UtOOdf3H1SV