Quote of the week
Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
August and Another v Electoral Commission and Others (CCT8/99) [1999] ZACC 3
Employment opportunities in NGO sector
Employment Opportunities
- The DG Murray Trust invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position of Grants Coordinator to be based in Cape Town. The application deadline is 21 May 2010. For more information, click here.
- South African History Online, a non-profit organisation established for the purpose of documenting the unrecorded history of our people, seeks to appoint a Communications and Marketing Officer, to be based in Johannesburg. The application deadline is 25 May 2010. For more information, click here.
- Hivos, the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation which strives for a world in which all citizens have equal access to resources and opportunities for development, seeks to employ a Programme Officer to be based in Johannesburg. The application deadline is 28 May 2010. For more information, click here.
- To view other vacancies in the NGO sector, click here.
