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What do you think

of the Constitution?

And I ask this because I had a very interesting interview recently with Gaten McKenzie.

Yes.

Where he said, we've got to bring back the death penalty.

We've got to suspend the Constitution, he said.

Now, that's heresy for many people

in this country.

Constitution, well, my doctorate is in constitutional law.

That's my field of interest.

I was present during the negotiations, and sometimes people refer to the Constitution as the best constitution in the world.

It is a good constitution, but it's not the best constitution.

Well, there are certain things that we could have done much better in terms of addressing the reality of South Africa.

We are a very diverse society.

We could have gone much further in terms of decentralization, in terms of federal principles.

Is the constitution like our labor laws, which were borrowed

from almost ideological West

Germany? Parts of the constitution were taken from there.

For example, the second House of Parliament, the Council of Provinces, is supposed to be like the second chamber of Germany, the Bundesrat.

And it's not exactly the same because in those instances, they've got what we've got called our provinces.

They've got their lender.

And the delegations there are supposed to act in the best interest of that specific geographical area.

But in our instance, it's just a party split down the line.

Why is this so much of an influence from Germany? And I ask this because I know there are a lot of German NGOs who pour a lot of money into South Africa.

A lot of those NGOs and some of the advisors at the time had also good connections who have studied in Germany at some stage.

What do you think

of the Constitution?

And I ask this because I had a very interesting interview recently with Gaten McKenzie.

Yes.

Where he said, we've got to bring back the death penalty.

We've got to suspend the Constitution, he said.

Now, that's heresy for many people

in this country.

Constitution, well, my doctorate is in constitutional law.

That's my field of interest.

I was present during the negotiations, and sometimes people refer to the Constitution as the best constitution in the world.

It is a good constitution, but it's not the best constitution.

Well, there are certain things that we could have done much better in terms of addressing the reality of South Africa.

We are a very diverse society.

We could have gone much further in terms of decentralization, in terms of federal principles.

Is the constitution like our labor laws, which were borrowed

from almost ideological West

Germany? Parts of the constitution were taken from there.

For example, the second House of Parliament, the Council of Provinces, is supposed to be like the second chamber of Germany, the Bundesrat.

And it's not exactly the same because in those instances, they've got what we've got called our provinces.

They've got their lender.

And the delegations there are supposed to act in the best interest of that specific geographical area.

But in our instance, it's just a party split down the line.

Why is this so much of an influence from Germany? And I ask this because I know there are a lot of German NGOs who pour a lot of money into South Africa.

A lot of those NGOs and some of the advisors at the time had also good connections who have studied in Germany at some stage.