Truth be told, one-third gender rule is a clear insult to women

Winston Churchill, the famed British imperialist, is known for many pithy witticisms. This one is memorable – “democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”  Translation – majority rule can often produce bad, unintended consequences. This is the case with the infamous one-third gender rule in the Constitution.

Sections 27(8) and 81(b) of the Constitution provides, in unambiguous and unequivocal language, that no gender shall constitute more than two-thirds of elective and appointive public offices.