THE FUSE

“We account to the Constitution and to the people of the Republic of South Africa,” said Commissioner Sandra Makoasha, the chairperson of the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) national inquiry into food systems in SA, addressing a director-general whose minister, like many others, had failed to appear at the inquiry. “When the commission is called useless in public, no one in the department considers that it is because they failed to assist the commission in adhering to their constitutional mandate.”