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The respondents based their claim on two constitutional provisions: section 26 of the Constitution, which provides that everyone has the right of access to adequate housing, thereby imposing an obligation on the State to take reasonable legislative and other measures to ensure the progressive realisation of this right within its available resources; and
S v Twala [1999] ZACC 18: 5 Brummer v Gorfil Brothers Investments [2000] ZACC 3: 6 S v Manamela [2000] ZACC 5: Co-written with Madala and Sachs. 7 Government v Grootboom [2000] ZACC 19: 8 Independent Electoral Commission v Langeberg Municipality [2001] ZACC 23: 9 S v Price [2001] ZACC 1: 10 De Beer v North-Central Local Council and South ...
Yacoob was born on 3 March 1948 in Durban in the former Natal Province. [1] His father was a Muslim cleric and he was classified as Indian under apartheid. [2] [3] At the age of 16 months, he became blind due to meningitis, [4] and from 1956 to 1966, he attended the Arthur Blaxall School for the Blind in Durban.
Judges Priya Pillai, left, Zak Yacoob, center, and Stephen Rapp, right, listen to the first witness of the 'people's tribunal' where prosecutors symbolically put Russian President Vladimir Putin ...
The table below lists the judgments of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered in 2005.. The members of the court at the start of 2005 were Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Deputy Chief Justice Pius Langa, and judges Tholie Madala, Yvonne Mokgoro, Dikgang Moseneke, Sandile Ngcobo, Kate O'Regan, Albie Sachs, Thembile Skweyiya, Johann van der Westhuizen and Zak Yacoob.
CAIRO (Reuters) -A Hamas official said on Tuesday Israeli hostages can be brought home from Gaza only if a fragile ceasefire is respected, dismissing the "language of threats" after U.S. President ...
Irene Grootboom (c. 1969 – 2008) was a South African housing rights activist best known for her victory before the Constitutional Court in 2000. [1] The Court found that the government had not met its obligation to provide adequate alternative housing for the residents of Kraaifontein ’s Wallacedene informal settlement .
Scores of unexploded bombs dating from World War II have been recovered from a children’s playground in northern England after a chance discovery.. Local officials in the town of Wooler ...