Madonsela

While the media can get it wrong, it is needed if there is going to be accountability, writes Thuli Madonsela. A little over a century ago, Louis Brandeis, who later served as a justice of the US Supreme Court, penned the now famous adage, "Sunshine is the best of disinfectants".Sunshine's disinfectant power seems to be corroborated by…

Professor Thuli Madonsela, on behalf of the Social Justice and Covid-19 Policy and Relief Monitoring Alliance (SCOPRA), has written to the presidency following a high court ruling which declared some Covid-19 regulations irrational and unconstitutional. In the letter, she recommends how best government can implement the Disaster Management Act, saying there is a lack of communication…

Thuli Madonsela. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24) The Law Trust chair in Social Justice at Stellenbosch University, Thuli Madonsela, in an open letter, wrote all policies must comply with the Constitution's equality clause and, by implication, the dictates of social justice.She says public policies and conduct must not only pass the reasonableness test in a court of law,…