On the establishment of the ANC Constitutional Committee in 1990 and its connection with the Community Law Centre. #DOI30yrs
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Albie Sachs, former associate of the Centre and former judge of South Africa’s Constitutional Court (1994-2009). On the Centre as the engine room of the intellectual foundation for the new Constitution…and on combining dreaming, imagining and ‘nuggety research’.
The Dullah Omar Institute turns 30 this year! Albie Sachs, Bulelani Ngcuka, Brigitte Mabandla, Renfrew Christie, Nicolette Naylor, Frans Viljoen & Vincent Saldanha recall the founding of the Community Law Centre in 1990 and its journey to becoming the Dullah Omar Institute.
The Dullah Omar Institute hosted a webinar on Transparency in local government procurement during COVID-19 on 15 July 2020, which attracted practitioners, researchers and civil society actors.
The first of a series of webinars on local government and COVID-19, hosted by the Dullah Omar Institute and the International Budget Partnership, took place on 04 June 2020, in partnership with the South African Local Government Association.
On 14 April 2020, the Dullah Omar Institute, together with the South African Local Government Association (SALGA) hosted a Webinar on Local Government & COVID-19. With more than 100 participants, including Ms Bogatsu (MM Frances Baard District Municipality) and Mr Lance Joel (COO: SALGA), we discussed the impact of the lockdown on municipal services, finance & governance.
South Africans have been faced with and negatively affected by SOE failures, most recently those of PRASA and Eskom along with the distressing evidence presented at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry.
On 9th of October, Higher Education Minister, Naledi Pandor, delivered the 12th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture at the University of the Western Cape. She said, Adv Dullah Omar is one of the less-referred-to stalwarts of the liberation movement. Yet his influence on our history and still emerging democracy continues to be felt long after his passing.
We caught up with Prof Nico Steytler of the Dullah Omar Institute to chat about his role as editor of The BRICS Partnership: Challenges and Prospects for Multilevel Government.
The influence of the late Anti-Apartheid struggle stalwart Dullah Omar in developing South Africa's democracy continues to be felt long after his passing in 2004.
Topic: “Entrenching a human rights culture in South Africa – problems, prospects,successes”
On 03 October 2017, the founder of the Graça Machel Foundation,Graça Machel delivered the 11th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture. The lecture, titled ‘A call for a nation’s soul searching’, reflected on the founding principles of the South African Freedom Charter and Constitution. Machel also addressed the spate of violence, moral degeneration and socio-economic inequalities in the country, after which she called for a framework for healing and action.