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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 ...
The first constitution was enacted by the South Africa Act 1909, the longest-lasting to date. Since 1961, the constitutions have promulgated a republican form of government. Since 1997, the Constitution has been amended by eighteen amendments. The Constitution is formally entitled the "Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996."
South Africa's nine provinces each produce a number of statutes a year, in areas for which they have either concurrent, or exclusive, legislative competence under section 104 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act, 1996. (See Schedule 4 of the Constitution for a list of the functions areas in respect of which a province may ...
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 ...
South Africa is generally considered to have had five constitutional documents since the Union was established in 1910, including the current one. The constitutions in chronological order are: South Africa Act 1909; Constitution of South Africa, 1961 (also known as the "Republican Constitution")
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 108 of 1996 [4] Public Protector Act 23 of 1994 [5] Executive Members Ethics Act 82 of 1998 [6] Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA) [7] Electoral Commission Act 51 of 1996 [8] Special Investigation Units and Special Tribunals Act 74 of 1996 [9]
Section 14 of the Bill of Rights in the South African Constitution of 1996 [2] expressly provides that "everyone has a right to privacy, which includes the right not to have (...) (d) the privacy of their communications infringed". The rights in the Bill of Rights may be limited, section 36 of the Constitution.
Chapter 1 of the Constitution of South Africa, titled Founding Provisions and containing six sections, enshrines in the constitution key national principles, defines the country's flag and national anthem, and specifies the official languages and principles of government language policy.