Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
Feedback meeting on Cop17 in Cape Town
What exactly happened at COP17, and what are the scientific
and ethical implications for South Africa and the world?
The Archbishop of Cape Town invites you to hear a panel of participants in the recent COP 17 climate talks in Durban share their insights into what happened there and what this means in the global, African, South African and Western Cape contexts.
In response to the high level of interest, the Archbishop is now hosting a similar event to an earlier meeting held at UCT. If you missed the first meeting, here’s your chance to be informed and engage with the speakers.
Thursday 8March 2012, 6 pm
Memorial Chapel, Bishops School,
Campground Road, Rondebosch
Panelists:
- The Most Revd Dr Thabo Makgoba (Host), Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Chair of the Anglican Communion Environmental Network (ACEN).
- Prof Mark New (Chair), Director of UCT’s African Climate and Development Initiative
- Prof Harald Winkler, Group leader: Energy, Environment and Climate Change at the Energy Research Centre, UCT, and member of the South African UNFCCC negotiating team at COP17
- Prof Guy Midgley, Chief Director: Climate Change at the SA National Biodiversity Institute,
and member of the South African UNFCCC negotiating team - Prof Bruce Hewitson, National Research Foundation Chair for Climate Change, UCT
- Dr Nigel Crawhall, Director of Secretariat of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee
Convened by
The Diocese of Cape Town Environmental Group
and
SAFCEI (The Southern African Faith Communities’
Environment Institute)
For further information, contact the Rev Dr Rachel Mash
on rmash@mweb.co.za. There will be a limited time for questions, please email them in advance.
