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Canary in the Constitution: What future of SA Jews tells us about our democracy

On the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s Constitution, a UCT lecture reflecting on the country’s dwindling Jewish minority offers a telling measure of whether the constitutional promise of minority rights – made in Parliament on 8 May 1996 – is being honoured for all South Africans, writes Tony Leon. In places and events, both obvious and [...]

Suzman wouldn’t have deplatformed Imitiaz Sooliman, but she would have called him out

On Tuesday, Adriaan Basson, editor in chief of News 24, expressed "renewed gratitude that in South Africa the ‘rights of journalists, authors and artists to write, say and sing what they like’ is an established right in 'our maturing democracy'." Basson is correct, too, that we should "never ever take our open democratic spaces and [...]

By |2024-10-30T05:27:08+00:00October 30th, 2024|Basson, Helen Suzman, Israel, Jewish, Sooliman, South African Politics|0 Comments
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