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On May 7, 1996 about 50 politicians were gathered together in the Parliament buildings in Cape Town negotiating the final details of South Africa's long-awaited democratic Constitution. There, too, were huddles of advisers, the long-suffering members of the administrative staff of the Constitutional Assembly, and members of the press who, generally absent from the process, had come to record the last moments. Behind the scenes the lay-out team was ready to put the last touches to the document and printers stood ready. Late that night, Cyril Ramaphosa, the Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly, pleaded with the group in his characteristically ironic fashion: "I know it's late but just 20 minutes more, just 20 minutes – for our Constitution which is for the next 20 years, no, 50 years, 100 years, 200 years. …"

The Adventure Bites - Cooking with Kids program enhanced nutrition curriculum by including a Life Skill development focus and a family night - to improve youth nutrition behaviors. The data was collected using the WSU 4-H Life Skills pre-post youth evaluations, staff surveys, a parent retrospective pre-post survey, and comparison data from non-program sites. The results support adding Life Skills and family night events into youth nutrition curricula. There are opportunities to improve evaluation and do further testing, to determine what the individual impact of Life Skill development and/or individual impact of having family nights had on changes in youth behaviors regarding nutrition.

The Constitution provides two procedures for passing ordinary bills in Parliament. Under the s 76 procedure, the provinces have real influence through their participation the NCOP. Under the s 75 procedure, provincial influence is very limited. The Constitution stipulates that bills that fall within an area of concurrent provincial/national competence must follow the s 76 process, but does not set out criteria to determine whether a bill should be 'tagged' as a s 76 or s 75 matter. Currently Parliament uses a Canadian test to 'tag' Bills. However, that approach fails to recognize the constitutional role of the NCOP. It is also designed to decide whether or not laws fall within the jurisdiction of provinces, an issue irrelevant to the tagging decision. This article argues that tagging decisions should be guided by South Africa's constitutional principles establishing the relationship between provinces and the national government, and suggests some criteria to ensure that those bills that most affect provinces are properly considered in the NCOP.