Politics and IR. Universities and education policy. Books. Handbags. Idris Elba. Lenny Kravitz. Not necessarily in that order.
Mar 30, 2021 • 68 tweets • 40 min read
Just started the first consultative meeting of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on electoral reform. The Chair of the Committee Mr Valli Moosa has opened the meeting. Follow on #electoralreformSA. @HomeAffairsSA
First speaker is Ms Tebogo Suping of @ActivateZA who is asking the Committee to move its consultations to where young people are and not to be tokenistic in its engagement. #electoralreformSA
Jun 12, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
1. Morning tweeps! As promised, I'm going to share some thoughts about yesterday's ConCourt decision on #electoralreform. Sorry it took me so long. I decided to read all 3 judgements (two concurring & one dissenting) and the Electoral Task Team report (Slabbert report) of 2003.
2. First thing is that the New Nation Movement & others were contesting the constitutionality of the Electoral Act (73 of 1998) which limits participation in elections to political parties. ConCourt agreed that the Act is unconstitutional and gave parliament 2 years to fix it.