Landmark Constitutional Cases that Changed South Africa

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On 14 February 1995, the Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated by President Nelson Mandela. In his inaugural speech, President Mandela remarked that the “future of our democracy” hinged on the existence and the work of the newly created Constitutional Court. Furthermore, President Mandela rightly asserted that it is the Constitutional Court’s task “to ensure that the values of freedom and equality which underlie our interim constitution – and which will surely be embodied in our final constitution – are nurtured and protected so that they may endure”. These sentiments are as true now as they were almost thirty years ago. However, whether and how the courts have nurtured and protected these sentiments over the last twenty-eight years is the topic that we want to address. This book serves as the first volume in a series of books that considers selected landmark judgments of the South African Constitutional Court.

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Prof Roxan Laubscher is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg. She holds Bachelor degrees in Commerce and Law, as well as a master’s degree and a doctorate in Constitutional Law from the University of Johannesburg. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2011, lecturing Constitutional and Human Rights Law to second year LLB students. She is a member of the editorial board of the UJ Law Faculty’s journal, the Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg/Journal of South African Law. She has presented papers at various local and international conferences and publishes widely on topics in constitutional and human rights law. Her research focuses on structural constitutional law, parliamentary practice and human rights issues. She is also a member of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S).

Marius van Staden (LLB; LLM (UJ); LLD (UP) is an Associate Professor in the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law where he is also Chair of Teaching and Learning. He teaches Labour Law and Jurisprudence. He is an NRF rated researcher and has published widely on labour law and constitutional law. He has authored and co-authored more than 40 journal articles and book chapters and is co-author of Van Niekerk and Smit (eds) Law@work (2024).

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