1. Introduction

In recent weeks and months the editorial and opinion columns of newspapers and internet news sites have been replete with comment to the effect that some of our most important democratic and constitutional institutions, and the Constitution itself, are under attack. The attacks, it is argued, come from the higher parts of government and the governing ANC.

The disturbing goings-on in Parliament during the last few weeks are but the latest example of what appears to be a willingness on the part of the ANC to sacrifice hard-won standards of good governance and to threaten important democratic traditions.

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Written by Mike Pothier, Research Co-ordinator, Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO)