Date: 19 July 2017 | Time:  12:30-13:30 | Venues: Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town 

Presenter: Mandla Seloane, LCM – Labour Relations Concultancy

Chair: Rachel Adams, HSRC  Respondent: Chris Oxtoby, UCT’s DGRU

Political theory suggests that a human being is a self-governing entity and that it is therefore necessary to justify the exercise of power by one person over another. That is the reason for having regular elections, so that citizens can give a mandate to those who rule over them. The judiciary, on the other hand, exercises power over citizens without their consent. Whereas there have been revolutions in different parts of the world as a result of politicians exercising power over people without their consent, it raises no eyebrow that judges exercise power over citizens without their consent. Why is that so? What are the trade-offs which made this arrangement possible? What do these trade-offs mean for the manner in which the judiciary does its work? These and related issues will be canvassed in the seminar.

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The HSRC seminar series is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The views and opinions expressed therein  as well as findings and statements of the seminar series do not necessarily represent the views of DST.

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Durban :  The Atrium, 5th Floor, 430 Peter Mokaba Ridge, Berea, 4001 , Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786 or RKhan@hsrc.ac.za , or Hlengiwe Zulu at e-mail HZulu@hsrc.ac.za