Pierre De Vos
Contributor at Freelance
Claude Leon Foundation Chair in Constitutional Governance at UCT and author of the Blog, Constitutionally Speaking. I am not a journalist. You need to read.
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1 month ago |
constitutionallyspeaking.co.za | Pierre De Vos
26 February 2025 Budget postponement brings into sharp focus SA’s new coalition reality The postponement of the Budget was, on balance, a positive sign. It suggests a moderate degree of pragmatism among the major players that is surprising, given how radically different the two largest coalition parties are.
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1 month ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Pierre De Vos
Last week’s postponement of the finance minister’s budget speech, which also delayed the tabling of the Budget (the 2025 Appropriations Bill) in Parliament, brought into sharp focus just how much the ANC’s loss of its overall majority in Parliament has changed how the executive is required to function. Maybe the penny is only starting to drop now.
On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Act
2 months ago |
constitutionallyspeaking.co.za | Pierre De Vos
12 February 2025 On the alarmist, misleading, and anti-constitutional claims made by critics of the Expropriation Act It should be possible for citizens with radically different political views to have constructive discussions about the merits of the Expropriation Act. But this becomes difficult when criticisms are not fact based, or are just plain false. When I heard that President Cyril Ramaphosa had signed the new Expropriation Act, I felt just a tad annoyed.
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2 months ago |
dailymaverick.co.za | Pierre De Vos
When I heard that President Cyril Ramaphosa had signed the new Expropriation Act, I felt just a tad annoyed. Not only would I now feel obliged to study the details of the act (a boring and rather technical piece of legislation), it was also going to make it very difficult for me to stick to my New Year’s resolution to ignore (or at least not to respond to) any hysterical, uninformed, or legally questionable takes on constitutional law issues.
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Jan 21, 2025 |
dailymaverick.co.za | Pierre De Vos
Last week I learnt on social media that artisanal miners in South Africa are all undocumented immigrants, that they all terrorise the communities they come from, and that they all commit the most heinous crimes — including murder and rape — on a daily basis.
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