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Introduction and background
The year 2024 marks 30 years of Freedom and Democracy, and 28 years since the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa was adopted in 1996.
Since 1994, we have as a nation, through Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary, been working on building a stable constitutional democracy that works for the people.
We continue to evolve and are learning lessons on how best we can change legislation to be responsive to the conditions of the people.
An illustration of this is the recent passing of the 18th amendment of the Constitution to recognise South African Sign Language as one of the official languages of the Republic of South Africa.
Since the introduction of the White Paper on local government and the democratic local government in 2000, we are observing instability in this sphere of government, which is attributed to a variety of reasons. Amongst others, these include a deficit in required capacity, financial instability and recently loosely arranged coalition governments.
Twitter poll on National Dialogue on Coalition Governments: https://twitter.com/PresidencyZA/status/1681315930838798342?t=8OX6uGT85FVVnzug78Pliw&s=08
