PLEASE CLEAR UP 1973 DECREE ISSUE

Sir,

Please publish my letter because I think it will help the authorities in deciding on this 1973 Decree debacle. I must say that Jan Sithole is right to say this degree will have disastrous consequences for our economy. In fact it will become an obstacle to our First World vision. If the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, as everyone seems to agree, why then is it difficult for government to issue a one-line statement saying “The 1973 decree is dead and buried as per our supreme law of the land which is the Constitution.”

That one line should be enough to convince everyone and AGOA will be ours again. But we must first agree if the Constitution is indeed the supreme law of the land ‘in practice’. From where I’m standing, the Constitution exists only on paper and that’s very sad for a country aspiring to the First World.

For example, the so-called Terrorism Act appears to have been taken from apartheid SA and some politicians here want to hang on to it as if their lives depended on it, yet it defies the Constitution.
Also, the Constitution calls for a certain number of women in Parliament but this constitutional requirement is being ignored with impunity. Was our good Constitution a big mistake then?

Mthunywa

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