{"id":964762,"date":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964762"},"modified":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:56","slug":"calls-for-submissions-on-apartheid-era-and-colonial-legislation-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/calls-for-submissions-on-apartheid-era-and-colonial-legislation-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls for submissions on apartheid-era and colonial legislation paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Law Reform Commission is calling on interested parties to submit written submissions on its discussion paper which seeks to review apartheid-era and colonial legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry will assess whether the legislation is compatible with expressive rights contained in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>It will further advise on whether legislation found wanting in this regard should be retained as is, retained with amendments, or revoked.<\/p>\n<p>The sections of interest deal with Freedom of Religion, Belief and opinion, Freedom of Expression, Assembly, Demonstration, Picket and Petition as well as Association and Political Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Although South Africa became a constitutional democracy on 27 April 1994, old-order legislation in force was retained to ensure, amongst others, an orderly transition.<\/p>\n<p>However, the continued existence of these laws has garnered much criticism prompting Parliament to initiate a government-wide review of all pre-democratic era legislation to ensure they are compatible with the spirit and letter of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Comments on this review must be submitted by 30 September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inquiry will assess if the legislation is compatible with expressive rights in the Constitution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[851,852,853,854],"class_list":["post-964762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitution","tag-existence-of-apartheid-era-laws-to-be-questioned","tag-freedom-of-expression","tag-freedom-of-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}