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The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) submitted public comments on the Protected Disclosures Bill to the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on 14 May 2026. While welcoming the Bill's expansion of protections and the introduction of financial rewards for whistleblowers, PARI identifies significant risks regarding the security and administration of the proposed central disclosure database and the restrictive criteria for calculating financial awards.

The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), representing groundWork and Earthlife Africa, submitted comments on July 23, 2021, regarding the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment's (DFFE) draft Guideline for considering climate change implications in environmental authorisations and licenses. While welcoming the initiative, the CER argues that the draft is insufficient to address the climate crisis and fails to meet the legal requirements of the Constitution and the National Environment Management Act (NEMA). The submission advocates for a 1.5°C warming limit as the primary benchmark for emissions assessments rather than Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and calls for the inclusion of social costs of carbon and full lifecycle GHG emissions in project evaluations.

This report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) provides commentary on the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) Secretariat's second working paper (WP #2) regarding proposed amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules. The IISD argues that the proposed changes are insufficient to promote meaningful reform of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) and suggests that several priority reforms require amendments to the ICSID Convention itself rather than just the Arbitration Rules.

The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) provide comments on draft rules for transparency in investor-State arbitration. The document argues for an 'opt-out' approach to ensure transparency is the default, criticizes broad tribunal discretion that could entrench a secretive status quo, and proposes specific modifications to draft articles regarding the publication of documents, awards, and hearing transcripts.