
Lawson Naidoo on Constitutionalism in the era of the GNU
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Lawson Naidoo is the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), an organisation committed to the principles of progressive constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law. He has held this position since CASAC’s inception in 2010. He has worked as a strategic political consultant focusing on the spheres of anti-corruption and good governance. He is a regular media commentator on constitutional and legal issues.
Naidoo is a Founding Partner at The Paternoster Group – African Political Insight, a consultancy focusing on political economy issues in South Africa.
He will address the Cape Town Press Club on Constitutionalism in the era of the Government of National Unity (GNU).
Naidoo also served as the Chairperson of the Board of Cricket South Africa from June 2021 to September 2024 and as a director of the International Cricket Council (ICC), the global governing body for cricket from 2021-2024.
He spent many years in political exile in the UK, and worked at the ANC Mission in London, serving, inter alia, as a Spokesman for the ANC. He holds an LL. B from the University of Southampton and an LL.M from the University of Cambridge and was admitted as a barrister at the Inner Temple. During 2007-08 he served as the Deputy Secretary of the Presidential Enquiry into the fitness of the National Director of Public Prosecutions to hold office (the Ginwala Enquiry). He previously held the position of Special Advisor to the Speaker of the National Assembly from 1994 to 1999.
He will take questions.
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Lawson Naidoo