Yesterday, the Helen Suzman Foundation, as friends of the court, together with Robert McBride, asked the Constitutional Court to confirm the High Court’s ruling which, in a unanimous judgement, ruled in their favour, thereby enforcing IPID’s autonomy. Piet Olivier, Legal Researcher at the Helen Suzman Foundation, explains the relevance of this ruling.

The City of Johannesburg implemented water restrictions to ensure it can meet the water department’s instruction to reduce consumption in the city by 15 percent. Dr. Marius Claassen, Water Resource Manager at the Council for Scientific & Industrial Research wrote a paper on water scenarios and how these are important for water resource planning.

Ordinary ANC members this morning are preparing to occupy the party's headquarters at Luthuli House and say they will proceed with their plan, despite acts of intimidation and members being intimidated from participating  in the #OccupyLuthuliHouse campaign. Does the campaign have the necessary support to pull off the campaign? Is the party at war with itself?

The police top brass will release its annual crime stats today several months after Police Commissioner Lt-Gen Khomotso Phahlane introduced his back-to-basics programme and restructured the police. Head of Governance, Crime and Justice at the Institute for Security Studies, Gareth Newham spoke to John about the effect that the restructure has had on the latest crime stats.

EWN’s Stephen Grootes wrote an article about the spat between Treasury and Eskom, that also involves the Gupta-owned company, Tegeta. Stephen spoke to John Robbie about whether these allegations have anything to do with in-fighting in the ruling party and what that means.

The Public Protector of South Africa, Advocate Thuli Madonsela spoke to John Robbie about broadly about unconscious racism and hyper-sensitivity on the part of victims who believe that some of the hair regulations and comments are racist. She also spoke about the racist and sexist implications of keeping rules unchanged.

In a bitter public spat, Treasury has accused Eskom of resisting efforts by Treasury to co-operate with the process of reviewing the power utility’s coal contracts, but Eskom denied yesterday that it was blocking a Treasury investigation into coal contracts with Tegeta. John spoke to Treasury Chief Procurement Officer, Kenneth Brown about this matter.

John spoke to SACP Deputy Secretary-General, Jeremy Cronin, who said that the SACP cannot call for President Zuma to step down as that would undermine the alliance. He has said that the party didn’t discuss leaving the tri-partite alliance at their Central Committee meeting over the past couple of days.