PHUTI MOSOMANE
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday emphasized the need for increased efforts to utilize the constitution as a transformative tool to address the issues of poverty, unemployment, and inequality.
Ramaphosa delivered a keynote address at the first day of the three-day National Conference on the Constitution held at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Gauteng, under the theme “Reflections on the Constitution: Rule of law, accountability, social and economic justice”.
The South African Constitution was adopted by the Constitutional Assembly on 8 May 1996 and certified by the Constitutional Court in October 1996. On 10 December 1996, former President Nelson Mandela signed the Constitution into law and it came into effect on 4 February 1997.
“Despite numerous achievements, there are still many challenges in the realisation of the vision, values and prescripts of our Constitution. South Africa’s constitutional project will fail if vast inequalities and existing levels of poverty are
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