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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.