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Honourable Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces,
Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces,
Honourable Members of the NCOP,
Premier of Gauteng,
Mayor of Ekurhuleni,
MECs and Provincial Speakers,
National and Provincial Chairpersons of SALGA,
Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders,
Religious, community and traditional leaders,
Distinguished Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my privilege to address this special sitting of the National Council of Provinces, which is a vital part of our democracy and which gives voice to the diverse views, needs and interests of the South African people.
The NCOP is one of the most important instruments of the Constitutional principle of cooperative governance, linking the national, provincial and local spheres of government.
It is in our provinces and municipalities that we are charting the course for our country’s development by providing water, electricity, housing, health care and other services to our people.
Most of the work of improving people’s lives happens locally.
The drafters of our Constitution recognised that a strong, effective and capable local government system is necessary for meaningful transformation and progress.
The Constitution clearly outlines not just the
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In Memoriam 2024
Chabani Manganyi (1960-2024)
Distinguished academic, scholar, intellectual activist, psychologist, and public servant Professor Noel Chabani Manganyi (DLitt 2008)died on 31 October 2024.
He was born in the district of Louis Trichardt and after his schooling, studied at the University of South Africa where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962 and received an honours degree in psychology in 1964, a master’s in 1968 and a doctorate in 1970 with a thesis titled “Body Image in Paraplegia”. As part of his doctoral requirements, he held an internship in clinical psychology at Baragwanath Hospital and was appointed as a clinical psychologist, a post he occupied for three years until he left to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale from 1973 until 1975.
Prof Manganyi published a series of monographs – the first was Being Black in the World (Spro-cas/Ravan1973, WUP 2019), the last Looking Through the Keyhole (Raven Press 1981). In these works, he examined the effects of institutionalised racism on the internal worlds and external realities of South Africans – including alienation, distorted relations with the body and quest for freedom. He was one of the few, who before the Truth and Recon