The South African Constitution offers protection to citizensandnon-citizens, and is one of few constitutions in the world that indisputably does so. The preamble of the Constitution reiterates South Africa’s commitment to uphold the rule of law, and this commitment greatly depends on consistent app...
South Africa is currently celebrating the success of its new constitution. The final draft of the document has only recently been ratified by the country's constitutional Assembly. After turmoil, uncertainty and years of struggle, the nation is now experiencing a democratic birth.;This thesis ...
The South African Constitution, one of the most progressive in the world, contains many important protections such as the rights to equality, housing, and education. The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Law (BEE) was designated to address the economic inequities of apartheid. South Africa's...
South Sudan is bounded on the north bySudan; on the east byEthiopia; on the south byKenya,Uganda, and theDemocratic Republic of the Congo; and on the west by theCentral African Republic. Relief South Sudan’s vast plains and plateaus are drained by theNile Riverand its tributaries. This ...
For centuries South Africa’s official languages were European – Dutch, English and Afrikaans. African languages, spoken by at least 80% of the people, were ignored. In 1996 a new constitution gave official protection to all of the country’s major languages. ...
Rights, the public and the South African Constitution: civil society and the performance of rights: Anthropology Southern Africa: Vol 31, No 1-2 The concept of rights holds considerable dominion over the discourses of the state and the public. This situation has left us unable to comprehend, ...
(CAR) earlier this month took many by surprise, not least because of the president’s failure to inform parliament of the deployment and the costs involved as he is required to do by the South African constitution (Johannesburg Star, January 8; for the intervention in the CAR, see Terrorism...
(Klare 1998), the notion of a constitutional dialogue, and an interpretation of amongst others the horizontal application of rights, the justiciability of socio-economic rights, the 'rules of standing' in the South African Constitution (s 38) and the phrase 'access to...' This enables us ...
How does the EU–South African Trade Development and Cooperation Agreement serve as a tool to ensure that basic services recognised under the South African Constitution are secured and reinforced so that the most vulnerable are protected? Benefits under the agreement will be hardly maximised by South...