Archive for October 2016

FirstRand chair cautions on state capture, downgrade, risks FirstRand chairman Laurie Dippenaar says he sometimes fears that “the line in the sand” between our democratic institutions (and the Constitution) and those who seek to subvert them “has already been crossed”. Writing in the group’s annual report, published on Tuesday, Dippenaar cites a portion of the…

Rethinking Protest in a Constitutional Dispensation South Africa has been described as the “protest capital of the world”. With 188% growth in protests over the last five years, numbering 3,542 in the period 2015/2016, the label is well deserved. By Prof NICK BINEDELL and MARIUS OOSTHUIZEN. In the past weeks, while students were hurling rocks…