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16 Law Democracy & Dev. 1 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/laacydev16 and id is 1 raw text is: Towards a more activist parliament more engaged with civil society YUNUS CARRIM Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Editorial note: What follows is the edited text of a speech delivered by Yunis Carrim at the launch of the Community Law Centre's Parliamentary Programme in Cape Town on 20 October 2010. It is reproduced here because of its relevance to the topic of LDD's Special Collection for 2011/2012, Civil society participation in Parliamentary oversight, as well as the importance of the issues it addresses in the context of South Africa's evolving democratic practice. I start with an apology. I was approached to speak some weeks ago. The topic suggested was around making Parliament more effective and strengthening its interaction with civil society. I explained that I now serve on the Executive, and it might be more useful to have a senior parliamentary committee chairperson speak on the topic - but the organisers wanted me to speak about my experiences of chairing three parliamentary committees between 1998 and 2009 and how these attempted to encourage civil society participation. I said that would be fine, FORUM Page 1

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