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Collapse, not openess
The Madlanga Commission, the Zondo Commission and many more, and their findings, are not the manifestation of a free, more open and accountable country; it is the visible manifistations of a country where government institutions, and then specifically those with the means to exercise state violence, are handed over to criminals in return for power and money. It is evidence of a state in collapse.
Frans Minnaar
6 days ago0 min read
Cape Town, Property Rights and the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court's judgement that prohibits the City of Cape Town to sell land (its property) to private interests, in order to use it for developing low-housing housing near the CBD, is part of trends in court judgments that prioritise transformation and redress, while resulting in declining economic growth and a lack of certainty about property rights.
Frans Minnaar
Jul 90 min read
Is SA a free and open democracy for those excluded from Constitutional protection?
South Africa is a democracy. It has the best Constitution; an example for other countries around the world, including in the Western world. This Constitution guarantees all possible freedoms to individuals. A true open society has been established, one that guarantee freedom and equality. That is the narrative; the unquestionable “reality” since 1994.
Except that, in reality, the South African constitution is rather complex in its allowances for, and guarantees of freedoms a
Frans Minnaar
May 160 min read
The Trias Politica and the Phala-Phala Judgement
The Phala Phala judgment is, at most, a technical interpretation of the prescriptions of the Constitution, read in conjunction with that of Parliament’s rules. It is not substitutive, or then, it is not a judgment where judges had to make ideological choices that will shape the nature of South African society. Furthermore, it must be read within the context of Ramaphosa’s diminishing influence in the midst of, for the lack of a better word, the “progressive forces” on the lef
Frans Minnaar
May 60 min read
Affirmative Action
Affirmative action; or, as it is shamefully called in South Africa: “Employment Equity”, was (and is) a total failure. It is an excuse for enriching the vultures circulating around the carcass of an economy in destruction because of the unique model of “redress” applied by those that stole everything they can lay a hand on.
Frans Minnaar
Mar 180 min read
Cape Town, Property Rights and the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court's judgement that prohibits the City of Cape Town to sell land (its property) to private interests, in order to use it for developing low-housing housing near the CBD, is part of trends in court judgments that prioritise transformation and redress, while resulting in declining economic growth and a lack of certainty about property rights.
Frans Minnaar
Jul 90 min read
Grondwetlike Beskerming? Dit hang af van jou ras en kultuur
Die kern van ʼn Grondwetlike demokrasie is die beginsel dat ʼn (meestal geskrewe) Grondwet die mag van die staat beperk, en die regte van groepe, maar veral individue, teen magsmisbruik deur die staat beskerm. Die vraag wat in hierdie artikel gevra word, is of hierdie meganisme werklik die veiligheidsnet aan alle Suid-Afrikaners, op gelyke basis, bied wat gedurende die 1990-1994 oorgangsproses voorsien was?
Frans Minnaar
May 10 min read
"The Firm": South Africa's Governing Oligarchy
The South African regime is nothing else than a criminals "firm". Everything is "top secrets". The small group that takes the decisions are experienced looters, monopolizing the benefits of their "revolution." It will be grave mistake to think that “The Firm” in South Africa is the ANC; it is not. Despite bitter personal infighting, there are beneficiation of collaborators in the criminal regime across political parties.
Frans Minnaar
Mar 110 min read
Remuneration of municipal councilors
The salaries and benefits of municipal councillors are determined by the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998; and then (currently) specifically the regulations titled Determination of upper limits of salaries, wages and benefits of different members of municipal councillors (the September 2023 version).
Download an Excel spreadsheet below to do a quick analysis of the salaries of municipal councilors in your municipality.
Frans Minnaar
Feb 260 min read
Die Israeli chargé d’affaires
Die destydse Israeli regering het noue bande met die voormalige Apartheidsregering van Suid-Afrika gehad. So is dit geen geheim nie dat die twee lande saamgewerk het om kernwapens te ontwikkel. Verder ook, deur baie jare heen, het die stryd tussen die Jode en die Palestyne, in die gebied “tussen die Rivier en die See” simbolies betekenis vir die ANC begin kry; ʼn refleksie van hulle eie stryd teen Apartheid Suid-Afrika.
Frans Minnaar
Feb 40 min read
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