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14 February 1995
As a citizen of our beloved country, I wish
to -make the following recommendations to) be considered for inclusion in our
new constitution.
They are :-
1. A Bill of Rights should be entrenched
in the constitution.
2. At present, fathers of children born out of
wedlock have no automatic rights to access their
children. This right only
applies to the child's mother. Fathers are, however, responsible for the
child's maintenance and upkeep.
This is a gross injustice towards fathers and
probably comes close to some form of prejudice or other. The result of this is
that
both father and child lose out. A child should have an automatic right to
see his father, irrespective of what the relation ship
may be between the
child’s parents.
The way I see the law now, is that children and
especially those born out of wedlock, have no rights. The constitution should,
through
the bill of rights, provide rights to children born out of wedlock to
ensure access to their parents and parents access to their
children without any
hindrance.
3. It is totally immoral and unacceptable to tax estates of
deceased people. This is an old concept and many modem countries have
abandoned
the idea. It is unfair for the state to take a final cut from a dead person,
who has aft his working life contributed
towards the receiver of
revenue.
4. The constitution should entrench freedom of expression at all
cost, in particular in the media.
5. Property rights should be spelled
out in such a way that if anyone causes the devaluation of
another person's
property in anyway, the state ensures that the value of the property is
maintained through any means possible e.g.
through compensation.
6. It
should be unconstitutional to discriminate or harm individuals belonging to
n-minority groups.
7. The weight of a homeowner’s vote i.e. a rate
payer, should be greater than that of a person who may live in an area but is
not a rate payer. This is a simple argument despite what apartheid may
have done me disenfranchised communities the opportunities to ultimate ly own
homes.
Even recipients of RDP homes should only have a weightier vote if they"
are rate payers.
I hope the above will go some way in identifying
some ofmy personal concems.
E Komen
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