Constitutional Court of South Africa

Personally, I would have wished that the work of the Adho Committee would have finished.

former chairperson of the pretoria and halting attorneys association tian yubar says a lack of proper public participation led to the constitutional court striking down the public procurement act this comes after the court ruled the the legislation was unconstitutional and invalid yesterday huber says the court identified a cluster of issues however the over how public participation was managed and dealt with.

Our constitution says parliament must let the public have a real say before it passes a law.

And what happened here was that a whole chapter of this bill, the chapter dealing with who gets preference when government awards a tender, was read at the last minute.

So the ANC is gonna have a very hard time convincing any future court that not pressing a button doesn't matter, because buttons make technology work.

Of course, the ANC could well try to approach the Constitutional Court, and that would be their logical next move.

I would imagine they would apply for direct appeal to the Constitutional Court because the election is less than 50 days away, so they're gonna try and go to the highest court and overturn this decision, but that'll be a very tall order.

And of course, we await the next steps from the ANC.

I wanna talk to the IEC's response now and where things may go, and let's take a look at Sy Mamabolo, IEC leader, who reacted to this victory in the electoral court.

Um, indeed, uh, they have issued a statement saying that they would now look at their next, uh, legal steps that they, um, can take.

We know that, uh, the Electoral Act says that a ruling of the Electoral Court is final, but we have seen, uh, in the past, uh, for example, the case of allowing, uh, former President Jacob Zuma to contest elections for the NK Party being taken to the Constitutional Court, um, to ventilate, uh, uh, its views on the matter after the Electoral Court had made a finding.

And so we can only expect that that is possibly the route the ANC might take, but it's calling for all its members to remain calm, its supporters to re-remain calm, and not to make any statements, uh, that could jeopardize any legal steps it still plans to take.

Uh, we also hear from the DA, which, as I said, was, um, their application to intervene was condoned by the court.

So Ndaba unsuccessfully reviewed that award in the Labor Court, and he's, um, persisting here right up to the Labor Appeal Court.

So, um, let's hope we don't see this at the Con Court.

So the commissioner had found that the discrepancies about whether Mdima was struck with one or two hands, grabbed, pushed, or hit on a particular part of the body were not material to whether force had unlawfully and intentionally been applied.

She regarded Sassa's witnesses as willing to make concessions, while Ndaba repeatedly altered his version and resisted concessions.

So, I mean, for me, it would be hugely problematic if we singled out farmers for particular protection that we're not giving to other citizens in other aspects of our society.

And as you say, the Constitutional Court has said that Kiel de Boer is not hate speech.

But the government could say that we are obliged to respect the decision of the Constitutional Court as are American politicians required to respect the decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeal.

But we would much prefer people not to sing it.

We think it is disgusting.