OP-ED: Section27 podcasts engage in constitutional thinking aimed at the ordinary citizen By Zukiswa Pikoli
. These were some of the most insightful and engaging conversations with some of our country’s foremost thinkers, activists and citizens.
In 1994 a democratic dispensation came, ending the apartheid government whose constitution, adopted in 1983, was in opposition to a democratic and inclusive society. That constitution did not recognise the inherent rights enshrined in the preamble of our current Constitution respecting those who built and developed the country or that South Africa belonged to all those who live in it and that we were united in our diversity.
An inclusive government takes citizens into their confidence and keeps them there by being transparent and conscientious when discharging their duties and respect that citizens provide them with the mandate of running the country. Civil society organisations are entrusted with strengthening the efforts of ordinary citizens to speak truth to the power that is state institutions and as a result, should be seen as an additional level of ensuring accountability.
What became further apparent as our podcast series went on is that the Constitution is not a self enacting document. As such, you would be hard pressed to find that all chapters and sections are implemented and enforced without the need for confrontations and testings, of the correct interpretation and application of its responsibilities.
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