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Submission to Department of Health on National Health Insurance Green Paper |
The Helen Suzman Foundation has submitted its comments to the Department of Health on the National Health Insurance Green Paper. Read the Executive Summary and download the submission HERE |
The Implications of the Simelane Judgment
The Supreme Court of Appeal has found the appointment of Adv. Menzi Simelane to the position of National Director of Public Prosecutions by President Zuma to be invalid. |
Focus 63 - Sustain...ability? | |
 | Focus 63 is available for download This edition of Focus is dedicated to the broad topic of Sustainability, and is immediately concerned with COP 17 or, to give it its full title, the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Durban in November and December of this year.
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Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture | |
 | On 22 November 2011 Kate O'Regan, former Justice of the Constitutional Court, delivered the annual Helen Suzman Memorial Lecture: A Forum for Reason: Reflections on the role and work of the Constitutional Court The Lecture was hosted by the Helen Suzman Foundation, in association with the Gordon Institute for Business Science, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty, the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at UCT, and HSBC. Download the full Lecture HERE |
Secrecy Bill and Tyranny | |
22 November 2011 Media Statement for immediate release The South African Constitution enshrines and protects the free flow of information between citizens, and from our government to our citizens. This access to information is essential for accountable, transparent and responsive government. It is an essential component of the liberal constitutional democracy which South Africa aspires to be. The Protection of State Information Bill represents a real threat to that aspiration. It will deprive South Africans of information which we are constitutionally entitled to. It has the capacity to impose further constraints upon all South Africans who continue to struggle under the heavy hand of an inefficient, overly burdensome and, often, corrupt bureaucracy. This can in effect deny our right to access the information we need to realise our socio-economic rights. The Bill will cover an already opaque area of government with an even darker shroud. The additional powers granted to the Ministry of State Security by the Bill allow the Ministry, arbitrarily, to interfere with the functioning of other organs of state. The Ministry is thus able to exert undue influence over our government – while at the same time obscuring this influence from public scrutiny. This will amount to tyranny. This Bill cannot credibly be described as in South Africa’s best interests. Instead, it is a case of political expediency triumphing over Constitutional rights. It marks the beginning of policy being driven by a secretive and self-serving security cluster. Helen Suzman Foundation |
