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South Africa's first bill of rights was drafted primarily by Kader Asmal and Albie Sachs in 1988 from Asmal's home in Dublin, Ireland. [1] The text was eventually contained in Chapter 3 of the transitional Constitution of 1993, which was drawn up as part of the negotiations to end apartheid.
The Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of South Africa (formally the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Act of 2023) made South African Sign Language an official language of South Africa. [1] The bill for the amendment was introduced in the National Assembly on 11 January 2023 by Ronald Lamola, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional ...
Chapter 2 is a bill of rights which enumerates the civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights of the people of South Africa. Most of these rights apply to anyone in the country, with the exception of the right to vote, the right to work and the right to enter the country, which apply only to citizens.
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Hoffmann v South African Airways (2000) — a government-owned airline's policy of refusing to hire HIV-positive people as flight attendants violates the right to equality. Satchwell v President of the Republic of South Africa and Another (2002) — pension and retirement benefits provided to the spouses of judges must be equally provided to ...
Act to amend the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, so as to effect certain consequential amendments necessitated by the provisions of the Constitution Fourteenth Amendment Act of 2008; provide for the filling of vacancies in a Municipal Council; and abolish the right of a member of a Municipal Council to become a member of another political party whilst retaining membership ...
One of the first decisions by the Constitutional Court was the 1995 case of S v Makwanyane, in which the court addressed the constitutionality of the death penalty.The principal judgment, by President of the Court Arthur Chaskalson, found the death penalty to be unconstitutional not because it violated the right to life, but because it violated the prohibition of cruel, inhuman and degrading ...
Parliament of South Africa: Enacted: 22 November 2007: Assented to: 13 December 2007: Commenced: 14 December 2007: Legislative history; Bill title: Constitution Thirteenth Amendment Bill: Bill citation: B24—2007: Introduced by: Brigitte Mabandla, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development: Introduced: 29 June 2007: Amends