The structure of the Indian and new Namibian Constitution together with a number of recent environmental cases before the Indian Supreme Court point the way towards the inclusion of environmental interests in a new South African constitutional dispensation. It is suggested that environmental considerations...
The South African constitutional discourse is the foundational agency that produces citizenship, centring subjectivity as a relational engagement with the existential reality of the everyday life of ordinary people. In this paper, however, it is pointed out that in terms of the constitutional provision...
The interpretive declarations related to Article 1(f), which defines "discrimination against women", and Article 31, dealing with the question whether the South African Constitution offers more favourable human rights protection than the Protocol. Against the background of a general discussion of ...
After the fall of Apartheid, South Africans drew up a newConstitutionunder President Nelson Mandela, the cornerstone of which is the Bill of Rights, guaranteeing freedom and equal rights to all. The South African Human Rights Commission was launched on March 21 in 1996, 35 years after the fate...
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The focus on cultural rights in the constitution is discussed, and the relevance of several constitutional institutions in terms of ensuring human rights, is mentioned. With a clear understanding of the constitutional, judicial and institutional contexts in place, the paper discusses the potentially ...
The Union's constitution kept all political power in the hands of whites. In 1912, the South Africa Native National Congress was founded in Bloemfontein and eventually became known as the African National Congress (ANC). Its goals were the elimination of restrictions based on color and the ...
Section 35(1) of South Africa's interim Constitution and section 39(1) of the final 1996 Constitution require courts to have regard to applicable public international law when interpreting the Bill of Rights. The author examines the effect of this obligation on the work of the Constitutional Cou...
The South African Constitution has been hailed as one of the most progressive in the world and has received high acclaim internationally (Mkhwanazi 2016:6). However, the war on women, their bodies and their right to self-determination pe... G Mkhize,F Vilakazi - 《Image & Text》 被引量:...
The purpose of this article is to analyse the role of human rights (specifically the Bill of Rights in the Constitution) and government efforts to alleviate poverty (through certain programmes and service delivery) in the face of adverse socio-economic realities in South Africa. The research ...