Assignment 07
Name:
Student number: 6
Module name: Social Dimensions of
Justice
Module Code: SJD1501
Due Date: 7 June 2023
, Question 1
1. Social media platforms play a progressively imperative part in social life,
communication, and dissemination of data. They unavoidably touch upon the
lives of most individuals, with judges being no exception. However, given the
nature of the judicial office, the use of social media by judges raises concerns.
Usually, the way judges utilize social media may influence the public’s
discernment of judges and certainty within the legal frameworks and can lead to
situations where judges are seen to be biased. The right to privacy is protected
by s14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and the
Protection of Personal Information Act. The Act recognizes the right to privacy
enshrined in the Constitution.
2. Social media is a public platform and everyone using it, just as in real life, has
the right to not be defamed by someone else or subjected to hate speech. Section
16(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa sates that everyone has a
right to freedom of expression. However, this right can be limited in terms of the
limitation clause provided in section 36 of the Constitution which states that, “the
rights in the Bill of Rights may be limited only in terms of law of general
application to the extent that the limitation is reasonable and justifiable in an open
and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom”.
Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination
Act puts a strict prohibition on hate speech. No person may publish, circulate,
promote, or communicate words based on one of the prohibited grounds,
against any person, if these words can be interpreted to demonstrate a clear
intention to either harmful or to incite harm; or to promote or broadcast hatred.
3. Social media promotes a kind of independence whose result contains a
coordinated effect on how racism and despise discourse is articulated online. It
is additionally influencing how we get to hate discourse. In social media, a racist
comment does not characterize the person. Taking after a bigot comment, the
client will not fundamentally see his or her account closed, but their comment
will be blocked, quieted, hushed, or erased. In computerized situations, we are
associated with people, but we are isolated in a consistent display. Social media
has advanced prejudice on a better indent with all sorts of racial isolation been
advanced on social media stages such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Question 2
The key consequences of procurement corruption on service delivery are as follows,
corruption affects the quality of services offered to the citizens, corruption diverts
government revenues, corruption affects the economic growth of the country, it leads to
loss of confidence in public officials, and it also breeds impunity and dilutes the public.
It can be concluded that making guilty officers refund, improvement in accountability
and transparency, strong and independent judiciary revision of laws and acts on
procurement and inception of e-procurement systems might be the measures to be
taken to eradicate public procurement corruption to provide optimum service
Name:
Student number: 6
Module name: Social Dimensions of
Justice
Module Code: SJD1501
Due Date: 7 June 2023
, Question 1
1. Social media platforms play a progressively imperative part in social life,
communication, and dissemination of data. They unavoidably touch upon the
lives of most individuals, with judges being no exception. However, given the
nature of the judicial office, the use of social media by judges raises concerns.
Usually, the way judges utilize social media may influence the public’s
discernment of judges and certainty within the legal frameworks and can lead to
situations where judges are seen to be biased. The right to privacy is protected
by s14 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 and the
Protection of Personal Information Act. The Act recognizes the right to privacy
enshrined in the Constitution.
2. Social media is a public platform and everyone using it, just as in real life, has
the right to not be defamed by someone else or subjected to hate speech. Section
16(1) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa sates that everyone has a
right to freedom of expression. However, this right can be limited in terms of the
limitation clause provided in section 36 of the Constitution which states that, “the
rights in the Bill of Rights may be limited only in terms of law of general
application to the extent that the limitation is reasonable and justifiable in an open
and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom”.
Promotion of Equality and Prevention of Unfair Discrimination
Act puts a strict prohibition on hate speech. No person may publish, circulate,
promote, or communicate words based on one of the prohibited grounds,
against any person, if these words can be interpreted to demonstrate a clear
intention to either harmful or to incite harm; or to promote or broadcast hatred.
3. Social media promotes a kind of independence whose result contains a
coordinated effect on how racism and despise discourse is articulated online. It
is additionally influencing how we get to hate discourse. In social media, a racist
comment does not characterize the person. Taking after a bigot comment, the
client will not fundamentally see his or her account closed, but their comment
will be blocked, quieted, hushed, or erased. In computerized situations, we are
associated with people, but we are isolated in a consistent display. Social media
has advanced prejudice on a better indent with all sorts of racial isolation been
advanced on social media stages such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
Question 2
The key consequences of procurement corruption on service delivery are as follows,
corruption affects the quality of services offered to the citizens, corruption diverts
government revenues, corruption affects the economic growth of the country, it leads to
loss of confidence in public officials, and it also breeds impunity and dilutes the public.
It can be concluded that making guilty officers refund, improvement in accountability
and transparency, strong and independent judiciary revision of laws and acts on
procurement and inception of e-procurement systems might be the measures to be
taken to eradicate public procurement corruption to provide optimum service
