Thank you, hon Speaker. These different arms of government have powers. Everything they do in practice derives from their powers. If you make the laws, you use your power that you have as Parliament and you make the laws. Those who look at the laws might - and they have done so in the past - say that your laws are unconstitutional. So, in exercising your power, we have not always been accurate as this House. There are laws that have been sent back, because in the process of exercising your power, you might make mistakes, though not deliberately. The executive has been taken to task on decisions it has made on the basis of the power that it has been given by the Constitution as well.
Equally, the judiciary makes decisions - judgments - that, at times, are actually overturned by it. Other levels of court make judgments; the higher courts overturn them, saying that the judgments were not correct. So, the issue of power and decisions cannot be separated. If you say that we are reviewing and assessing whether these decisions or functions that have been undertaken - emanating from the power - are fine, it's because we just want to make sure that everything is done according to what needs to be done in the country. That is what we are saying. The very fact that this Parliament has, in fact, reviewed about 16 aspects of the Constitution tells you the story. Nothing is so perfect that it has no mistakes. Only God makes no mistakes. We make mistakes. He had to sacrifice his Son to come and help us ... "sesenze nesono". [... because we had sinned.] Thank you, hon Speaker. [Applause.]
Presidential pardons referred to in October 2010 6. Mr P J Groenewald (FF Plus) asked the President of the Republic:
What progress has been made in finalising presidential pardons of persons to whom he referred in October 2010? NO659E