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We remember the 1956 Women’s March and Marikana, as the HJI launches its TRIPS waiver webinar series and Corruption Watch discusses active citizenry.

National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise's legal counsel has questioned whether Democracy in Action represents the public interest in its application to have Parliament's rules for the impeachment of the head of a Chapter 9 institution scrapped.



As Health Minister Zweli Mkhize takes this time to dedicate his attention to the SIU investigation, as he says, one can only hope that he also reflects not only on his leadership in handling the pandemic, but also on the only requirement that South Africans hold for tainted government leaders: to account fully for their actions and trust the process, writes Corruption Watch's senior journalist and editor Moepeng Valencia Talane.

Democracy in Action wants the court to find the rules unconstitutional and that National Assembly failed to enact enabling legislation to give effect to them.

The Minerals Council South Africa has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement raising the embedded generation threshold to 100MW from a paltry 1MW.

The Western Cape High Court on Thursday heard another application seeking to declare the rules for the removal of a head of Chapter 9 institutions unconstitutional.

Advocate Michelle le Roux argued in court that  deference should be given to Parliaments choices. The court is hearing Mkhwebanes application to have the rules for removing a Chapter 9 head declared unconstitutional. Parliaments rules for removing the office bearer of a Chapter 9 institution are in line with international jurisprudence, the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac) and Corruption Watchs legal counsel, advocate Michelle le Roux, told the Western Cape High Court...

Casac & Corruption Watch support Parly probe into Mkhwebane Lawyers for the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution and Corruption Watch have opposed Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s application to have Parliament’s impeachment rules declared unconstitutional. FILE: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News. 2 hours ago CAPE TOWN - Civil society organisations ...

The scale of the problems in the minerals sector is immense. How does it move towards good governance policies and practices and begin to tackle corrupt conduct, rather than aiding self-serving political interests?

This month, the portfolio committee on health in parliament continued holding public hearings on the NHI Bill.