Prof De Visser, Director of the Dullah Omar Institute and local government expert has been providing expert analysis in various media on the 2016 elections and on coalitions. He explained the rules governing elections and particularly the rules impacting on the efforts to build coalitions in so called 'hung councils'.
Videos
On 3 August, millions of voters will exercise their right to vote and decide who controls South Africa’s 257 municipalities. The stakes are high because municipalities deal with basic services and parties are competing for control of powerful cities, such as Johannesburg, Cape Town and eThekwini.
The Forum of Federations, a global network on federalism and devolved governance, has produced an educational video series on decentralisation. It includes a documentary on South Africa in which Jaap de Visser analyses the history and practice of provinces and municipalities in South Africa.
Every year thousands of people in Africa are arrested and detained in Africa for pettyoffences, many dating back to colonial times such as being ‘a rogue and vagabond’.
As part of our 25th Anniversary, we collected the perspectives of a range of individuals who all have in common that they were associated with the Community Law Centre and/or with our founding Director, the late Adv Dullah Omar.
On litigating socio-economic rights and on the value of institutions such as CLC
On the Centre as the engine room of the intellectual foundation for the new Constitution…and on combining dreaming, imagining and ‘nuggety research’.
On working for Dullah Omar as an intern, Amy Biehls’ tragic death and how it sparked thinking on restorative justice
On CLC as the research angle for the liberation movement and on shaping the local government system as we know it.