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
Shortlisted names for appointment to the Constitutional Court
SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR JUDICIAL
POSITIONS
On 22 March 2012, the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) republished an advertisement calling for nominations of interested persons to fill a vacancy in the Constitutional Court. The closing date for the nominations was set for 30 April 2012.
Following the closing date, the JSC has compiled a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed for the vacant position in the Constitutional Court at its sitting to be held on 09 June 2012 as follows:
- Judge L O Bosielo
- Judge M M L Maya
- Judge R W Nugent; and
- Judge R M M Zondo
The shortlisted candidates
will be notified of the time and venue of the interviews in due course.
Issued
by the Judicial Service Commission
Enq: Adv D Ntsebeza SC
0824672490 and Mr C P Fourie 0828811737
06 March 2012
