KGALEMA MOTLANTHE: Taking stock of the effects of 1,000 laws passed since 1994
Public hearings are under way to assess the effects of the 1,000 post-apartheid laws that ensure our constitutional paradigm
WE ADOPTED our Constitution in May 1996. It marked a clear break with the past, when Parliament had been supreme and was able to pass the many unjust and discriminatory laws that characterised apartheid and the other forms of minority rule preceding it. In our democratic SA, the Constitution is supreme and all laws and conduct have to be consistent with it. South Africans — and the world — revered its inspiring founding provisions of a single, democratic South African state based on the values of human dignity and the achievement of equality and the advancement of human rights and freedoms; nonracialism and nonsexism; supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law; universal adult suffrage, a national common voters’ roll, regular elections and a multiparty system of democratic government to ensure accountability, responsiveness and openness. The Constitution we adopted listed our 11 official languages — Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, ...
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