Vol X

Constitutional Court Review X

EDITORIAL
1. Constitutional Court Review Beyond the Global
Pandemic
David Bilchitz
III
LEAD ESSAYS
2. The Constitutional Court’s 2018 Term: Lawfare or Window on the Struggle for Democratic Social Transformation?
Theunis Roux, University of New South Wales
1
3. Judicial Appointments in India: From Pillar to Post
Arghya Sengupta, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy,
& Jay Vinayak Ojha, Independent
43
SYMPOSIUM: REFUGEE LAW
4. Access to Effective Refugee Protection in South
Africa: Legislative Commitment, Policy Realities,
Judicial Rectifications?
Ruvi Ziegler, University of Reading
65
5. No Return to Persecution or Danger: Judicial
Application of the Principle of Non-Refoulement in
Refugee Law in South Africa and Malawi
Redson Edward Kapindu, High Court of Malawi
107
SYMPOSIUM: INTERNATIONAL LAW
6. The Constitutional Court’s Judgment in the SADC Tribunal Case: International Law Continues to Befuddle
Dire Tladi, University of Pretoria
129
7. We Are All International Lawyers; Now What? Taking Seriously the Constitutional Injunction to Integrate International Law Obligations into South African Law
Andreas Coutsoudis & Max du Plessis, University of KwaZulu-Natal
155
8. International Law, Access to Courts and Non-Retrogression: Law Society v President of the Republic of South Africa
Sanya Samtani, University of Oxford
197
ARTICLES
9. South Africa’s Doctrinal Decline on the Right to Protest: Notification Requirements and the Shift from Fundamental Right to National Security Threat
Jane Duncan, University of Johannesburg
227
10. What’s So Wrong with Quotas? An Argument for the Permissibility of Quotas under s 9(2) of the South African Constitution
Nomfundo Ramalekana, University of Oxford
251
11. Sexual Harassment and Disciplinary Procedures: Never the Twain Shall Meet
Bonita Meyersfeld, University of the Witwatersrand
301
12. The Constitutional Court on the Rights of Minority Trade Unions in a Majoritarian Collective Bargaining System
Stefan van Eck & Kamalesh Newaj, University
of Pretoria
331
13. ‘Swartman’: Racial Descriptor or Racial Slur? Rustenburg Platinum Mine v SAEWA obo Bester [2018] ZACC 13; 2018 (5) SA 78 (CC)
Joanna Botha, Nelson Mandela University
353
14. Where Is Property? Some Thoughts on the Theoretical Implications of Daniels v Scribante
Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel & Bradley Slade, Stellenbosch University
379
15. The Problems with Prince: A Critical Analysis of Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development v Prince
Nabeelah Mia, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights
and International Law
401

 

Vol IX

Constitutional Court Review IX

THE RULE OF LAW, THE SEPARATION OF POWERS & ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS
1. Pushing the Boundaries: Judicial Review of Legislative
Procedures in South Africa
Stephen Gardbaum, University of California
1
2. A Tactical Separation of Powers Doctrine
Aziz Z Huq, University of Chicago
19
3. Precautionary Constitutionalism, Representative
Democracy and Political Corruption
Firoz Cachalia, University of the Witwatersrand
45
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
4. Plea Bargaining in South Africa: An Economic
Perspective
Richard Adelstein, Wesleyan University
81
5. Reconciliation as the Aim of a Criminal Trial: Ubuntu’s
Implications for Sentencing
Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg
113
LAND REFORM, HOUSING & THE SPATIAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF APARTHEID
6. Unpacking Section 25: What, If Any, are the Legal
Barriers to Transformative Land Reform?
Jackie Dugard, University of the Witwatersrand
135
7. From Housing to City: On the Possibilities of the Right
to the City in South Africa and India
Ajey Sangai, O.P. Jindal Global University
161
8. Dismantling Apartheid Geography: The Limits of the
Law
Ralph F Madlalate, Harvard University
195
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRUCTURE & CONTENT IN CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
9. A Service Conception of the Constitution: Authority,
Justification, and the Rule of Law in Proportionality
Analysis
Richard Stacey, University of Toronto
219
10. Forcing the Court’s Remedial Hand: Non-Compliance
as a Catalyst for Remedial Innovation
Helen Taylor, University of Oxford
247
11. Invalid Court Orders
Mitchell Nold de Beer, Cape Bar
283
AB, REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS & CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
12. Surrogacy, Geneticism and Equality: The Case of
AB v Minister of Social Development
Denise Meyerson, Macquarie University
313
13. The Constitution as an Instrument of Prejudice: A
Critique of AB v Minister of Social Development
Donrich Thaldar, University of KwaZulu-Natal
343
14. The Best Interests of the Child and the Constitutional
Court
Meda Couzens, University of KwaZulu-Natal
363
THE LIMITED INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN MORAL THEORY & LAW ON THE CONSTITUTION
15. Kindred Strangers: Why has the Constitutional Court
of South Africa Never Cited the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights?
Tom Gerald Daly, University of Melbourne
387
16. Human Dignity in the Common Law of Contract:
Making Sense of the Barkhuizen, Bredenkamp and Botha Trilogy
Hanri Du Plessis, University of South Africa
409
THINGS WE DON’T LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
17. The More Things Change: Multiracialism in
Contemporary South Africa
Martin Brassey, University of the Witwatersrand
443
18. The Silent Right: Environmental Rights in the
Constitutional Court of South Africa
Ruth Krüger, University of the Witwatersrand
473
19. Judicial Independence and the Office of the Chief
Justice
C H Powell, University of Cape Town
497
20. The Rights of the State, and the State of Rights in
State Information Technology Agency v Gijima Holdings
(Pty) Limited

Robert Hlati Freeman, University of Oxford
521
21. Breaking the Silence: The Treatment of Ius Cogens in
Zimbabwe Torture Docket and Al Bashir
Mia Swart, HSRC
537

 

Vol VIII

Constitutional Court Review III

Elections
1. Liable Lies
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
1
2. Autonomy, Fairness, Pragmatism, and False Electoral Speech: An Analysis of Democratic Alliance v African National Congress
Geo Quinot & P J H Maree
23
3. My Vote Counts: The Basis and Limits of a Constitutional Requirement
of Political Disclosure
Graeme Orr
52
4. My Vote Counts, International Standards and Transparency of Political Party
Funding: Does the State Have a Duty to Provide for Continuous and
Systematic Disclosure?
Joo-Cheong Tham
74
5. Don’t Blame the Librarian if No One Has Written the Book:’ My Vote
Counts
and the Information Required to Exercise the Franchise
Toerien van Wyk
97
The Public Protector
6. A Politics of Accountability: How South Africa’s Judicial Recognition of
the Binding Legal Effect of the Public Protector’s Recommendations
Had a Catalysing Effect that Brought Down a President
Stu Woolman
155
7. ‘Coercing Virtue’ in the Constitutional Court: Neutral Principles,
Rationality and the Nkandla Problem
Michael Tsele
193
Commissions and Legal Aid
8. Reconceiving Commissions of Inquiry as Plural and Participatory
Institutions: A Critical Reflection on Magidiwana
Grant Hoole
221
9. The Right to Civil Legal Aid in South Africa: Legal Aid South Africa v
Magidiwana

Magidiwana
Jason Brickhill & Christine Grobler
256
Gender and the Judiciary
10. Ms. Elsie Klaase and the Constitutional Court’s Missing Women
Mateenah Hunter & Tim Fish Hodgson
283
11. Twenty-Three Years of Gender Transformation in the Constitutional
Court of South Africa: Progress or Regression
Moses Retselisitsoe Phooko & Sibusiso Blessing Radebe
306
Case Comment
12. South African Reserve Bank v Shuttleworth: A Constitutional Lawyer’s
Nightmare
Cora Hoexter
333

 

Vol VII

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Administrative Law
1. Good Reviews, Bad Actors: The Constitutional Court’s Procedural Drama
Leo Boonzaier
1
2. The Puzzle of Pronouncing on the Validity of Administrative Action on Review
Geo Quinot & P J H Maree
27
3. The Ebb and Flow of the Application of the Principle of Subsidiarity – Critical Reflections on
Motau and My Vote Counts
Melanie Murcott & Werner van der Westhuizen
43
4. Administrative Action, the Principle of Legality and Deference – The Case of Minister of Defence and
Military Veterans v Motau
Andrew Konstant
68
5. The Test for ‘Exceptional Circumstances’ Where an Order of Substitution is Sought: An Analysis of Trencon Against the Backdrop of the Separation of Powers
Lauren Kohn
91
6. Clarifying the Exceptional Circumstances Test in Trencon: An Opportunity Missed
Raisa Cachalia
115
Affirmative Action
7. Dignity and Equality in Barnard
Samantha Vice
135
8. Affirmative Action and Intensity of Review:
South African Police Service v Solidarity obo Barnard
Chris McConnachie
163
The Zimbabwe Torture Docket Case
9. South Africa’s Competing Obligations in Relation to International Crimes
Lilian Chenwi & Franziska Sucker
199
10. Neither Complimentary nor Complementary: National Commissioner of the South African Police Service v Southern African Litigation Centre and Another
Salim A Nakhjavani
247
Articles
11. Constitutional Heedlessness and Over-Excitement in the Common Law of Delict’s Development
Emile Zitzke
259
12. Against the Interests of Justice: Ignoring Distributive Justice When Certifying Class Actions
Khomotso Moshikaro
291
Case Comment
13. No Place for the Poor: The Governance of Removal in Zulu and SAITF
Irene de Vos & Dennis Webster
321

 

Vol VI

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Local Government
1. Confronting the State of Local Government: The 2013 Constitutional Court Decisions
Jaap de Visser and Nico Steytler
1
2. Britannia Beach and Lagoonbay: The Constitutional Court in Muddy Waters? Some Comparative Reflections on the Benefits of an Active Judiciary
Henk Kummeling
24
3. Adding Injury to Insult: Intrusive Laws on Top of a Weak System
Phindile Ntliziywana
32
4. Playing With Power: The Competing Competencies of Provincial and Local Government
David Borgström and Uday Kiran Naidoo
57
Customary Law
5. Transformative Constitutionalism and Customary Law
Aninka Claassens and Geoff Budlender
75
6. Tradition and Modernity: Adjudicating a Constitutional Paradox
Kate O’Regan
105
7. The Exceptionalism and Identity of Customary Law under the Constitution
Wilmien Wicomb
127
8. Living Customary Law: A Truly Transformative Tool?
Rita Ozoemena
147
Education
9. Procedure or Principle: The Role of Adjudication in Achieving the Right to Education
Sandra Fredman
165
10. Executive Heavy Handedness and the Right to Basic Education 199
A reply to Sandra Fredman
Yana van Leeve
199
Case Comments
11. Domestic Enforcement of International Judicial Decisions against Foreign States in South Africa:
Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe v Fick
Hannah Woolaver
217
12. Search and Seizure without Warrant
Alistair Price
245
13. AllPay Remedy: Dissecting the Constitutional Court’s Approach to Organs of State
Meghan Finn
258
14. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Another v Masingili and Others
Anél du Toit
273
15. A False Start in the Development of Class Action Law?
Mukaddam and Others v Pioneer Food (Pty) Ltd and Others
Georgina Jephson
286

Vol V

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Symposium 1: Constitutional Courts as Hedges against Democratic Authoritarianism
1. Lead Essay: Samuel Issacharoff: (New York University): The Democratic Risk to Democratic Transitions 1
2. Reply: Theunis Roux (University of New South Wales): The South African Constitutional Court’s
Democratic Rights Jurisprudence
33
3. Reply: Martin Krygier (University of New South Wales): What About the Rule of Law? 74
Articles
4. Dikgang Moseneke (Deputy Chief Justice, Constitutional Court): Courage of Principle 91
5. Anton Fagan (University of Cape Town): Causation in the Constitutional Court: Lee v Minister of Correctional Services 104
6. Stu Woolman (University of the Witwatersrand) & Brahm Fleisch (University of the Witwatersrand): The Problem of the ‘Other’ Language 135
Symposium 2: Socio-Economic Rights: Competing Models of Constitutional Review
7. Lead Essay: Brian Ray (Cleveland Marshall College of Law): Evictions, Aspirations and Avoidance 173
8. Reply: Katharine Young (Boston College): The Avoidance of Substance in Constitutional Rights 223
9. Reply: David Landau (Florida State University): Aggressive Weak-Form Remedies 244
10. Reply: Jackie Dugard (University of the Witwatersrand): Beyond Blue Moonlight: The Implications of Judicial Avoidance in Relation to the Provision of Alternative Housing 265
11. Reply: Stuart Wilson (Socio-Economic Rights Institute): Curing the Poor: State Housing Policy in
Johannesburg after Blue Moonlight
280
12. Reply: David Bilchitz (University of Johannesburg): Avoidance Remains Avoidance: Is It Desirable in
Socio-Economic Rights Cases?
297
Comments and Replies
13. Comment: James Fowkes (Yale University): Managerial Adjudication, Constitutional Civil Procedure and Maphango v Aengus Lifestyle Properties 309
14. Reply: Michael Dafel (South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and
International Law): On the Flexible Procedure of Housing Eviction Applications
331
15. Comment: Mia Swart (University of Johannesburg) & Thomas Coggin (University of the Witwatersrand):
The Road Not Taken: Separation of Powers, Interim Interdicts, Rationality Review and
E-Tolling in National Treasury v Opposition to Urban Tolling
346
16. Reply: Ngwako Raboshakga (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs): The Separation of Powers in Interim
Interdict Applications
366
Symposium 3: Constitutional Courts as Hedges against Democratic Authoritarianism
17. Vanessa Barolsky (Human Sciences Research Council): Glenister at the Coalface: Are the Police Part of an Effective Independent Security Service? 377
18. Bonita Meyersfeld (University of the Witwatersrand): Domesticating International Standards:The
Direction of International Human Rights Law in South Africa<
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399
19. Franziska Sucker (University of the Witwatersrand): Approval of an International Treaty in Parliament: How Does Section 231(2) ‘Bind the Republic’? 417
20. Juha Tuovinen (European University Institute): What to Do with International Law? 3 Flaws in Glenister 435
Comments
21. Comment: Karthy Govender (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal): The Risk of Taking Risky Decisions: Democratic Alliance v President of the Republic of South 451
22. Comment: Okyerebea Ampofo-Anti (Webber Wentzel) & Ben Winks (Webber Wentzel): There and Back Again: The Long Road to Access to Information in M&G Media v President of the Republic of South Africa 466

 

Vol IV

Vol III

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Lead essays/responses
1. Lead Essay: Heinz Klug (Wisconsin): Finding the Constitutional Court’s Place in South Africa’s Democracy: the interaction of principle and institutional pragmatism in the Court’s decision making
1
2. Reply: Conrado Hübner Mendes (Sao Paolo): Fighting for their Place: Constitutional Courts as Political Actors: A Reply to Heinz Klug 33
Articles
3. David Bilchitz (Johannesburg): Citizenship and Community: Exploring the Right to Receive Basic Municipal Services in Joseph
45
4. Jason Brickhil (Legal Resources Centre): Precedent and the Constitutional Court
79
5. Geo Quinot (Stellenbosch): Substantive Reasoning in Administrative-Law Adjudication 111
6. Lucy A Williams (Columbia): The Role of Courts in the Quantitative-Implementation of Social and Economic Rights: A Comparative Study
141
Comments
7. Redson Edward Kapindu (SAIFAC/Johannesburg): The Desperate Left in Desperation: A court in Retreat — Nokotyana v Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality revisited
201
8. Kirsty McLean (Witwatersrand/Advocate, JHB Bar): Meaningful Engagement: One Step Forward or Two Back? Some Thoughts on Joe Slovo
223
Articles
9. Thaddeus Metz (Johannesburg): The Reach of Amnesty for Political Crimes: Which Burdens on the Guilty does National Reconciliation Permit?
243
10. Bonita Meyersfeld (Witwatersrand): If You can See, Look: Domestic Partnerships and the Law 271
11. Denise Meyerson (Melbourne): Who’s In and Who’s Out? Inclusion and Exclusion in the Family Law Jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa 295
Comments
12. Daria Roithmayr (Southern California): Lessons from Mazibuko: Persistent Inequality and the Commons 317
13. Karin van Marle (Pretoria): Reflections on Post-Apartheid Being and Becoming in the Aftermath of Amnesty: Du Toit v Minister of Safety and Security
347

Vol II

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Lead essays/responses
1. Lead Essay: Sujit Choudhry (NYU/Berkeley): ‘He had a Mandate’: The South African Constitutional Court and the African National Congress in a Dominant Party Democracy 1
2. Reply: Jonathan Klaaren (Witwatersrand): Dominant Democracy in South Africa? A Response to Choudhry 87
3. Lead Essay: Stephen Ellmann (New York): Marking the Path of the Law 97
4. Reply: Christopher Mbazira (Makerere): The Role of Transboundary Dialogue: A Response to Stephen Ellmann
145
Articles
5. Catherine Albertyn (Witwatersrand): ‘The Stubborn Persistence of Patriarchy’? Gender
Equality and Cultural Diversity in South Africa
165
6. Martin Brassey (Advocate/Johannesburg Bar): Back Off But Back Up! Administrative Law Rightly Yields to Labour Law 209
7. Hugh Corder (Cape Town): Principled Calm Amidst a Shameless Storm: Testing the Limits of the Judicial Regulation of Legislative and Executive Power
239
8. Frank Snyckers (Advocate/Johannesburg Bar): The Flight from Rights: Rule Aversion in
Dealing with the Criminal Process Molimi, Zuma, Thint (Holdings), Shaik and Zealand
269
Comments
9. Michael Bishop (Cape Town): Vampire or Prince? The Listening Constitution and Merafong Demarcation Forum & Others v President of the Republic of South Africa & Others 313
10. Lilian Chenwi (Witwatersrand): A New Approach to Remedies in Socio-Economic Rights Adjudication: Occupiers of 51 Olivia Road and Others v City of Johannesburg and Others 371
11. Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers/London): The Significance of the Living Customary Law for an Understanding of Law: Does Custom Allow for a Woman to be Hosi? 395
12. Pierre De Vos (Cape Town): Between Moral Authority and Formalism: Nyathi v Member of Executive Council for Dept of Health, Gauteng 409
13. Nico Steytler (Western Cape): The Decision in Wary Holdings (Pty) Ltd v Stalwo (Pty) Ltd and Another 2009 (1) SA 337 (CC): Be Wary of these Holdings 429

Vol I

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Lead essays/responses
1. Lead Essay: Frank I Michelman (Harvard): On the uses of Interpretive Charity: Some Notes on Application, Avoidance, Equality and Objective Unconstitutionality from the 2007 term of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
1
2. Reply: Tshepo Madlingozi (Pretoria): The Constitutional Court, Court Watchers and the Commons: A Reply to Professor Michelman on Constitutional Dialogue, ‘Interpretive Charity’ and the Citizenry as Sangomas
63
3. Lead Essay: AJ van der Walt (Stellenbosch): Normative Pluralism and Anarchy: Reflections on the 2007 Term
77
4. Reply: Karl Klare (Northeastern): Legal Subsidiarity and Constitutional Rights: A Reply to AJ van der Walt
129
Articles
5. Jaco Barnard-Naudé (Cape Town): ‘Oh, What a Tangled Web we
Weave …’ Hegemony, Freedom of Contract, Good Faith and Transformation – Towards a Politics of Friendship in the Politics of Contract
155
6. Cora Hoexter (Witwatersrand): Clearing the Intersection? Administrative Law and Labour Law in the Constitutional Court
209
Comments and Replies
7. Loretta Feris (Cape Town): Sustainable Development in Practice: Fuel Retailers Association of Southern Africa v Director- General Environmental Management, Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment, Mpumalanga Province 235
8. Dire Tladi (United Nations): Fuel Retailers, Sustainable Development & Integration: A Response to Feris 255
9. Patrick Lenta (KwaZulu Natal): Cultural and Religious Accommodations to School Uniform Regulations 259
10. Iain T Benson (Advocate/Canadian Bar): The Case for Religious Inclusivism and the Judicial Recognition of Religious Associational Rights: A Response to Lenta 295
Comments
11. Glenn Penfold & Dario Milo (Attorneys/Webber Wentzel): Media Freedom and the Law of Privacy: NM & Others v Smith & Others (Freedom of Expression Institute as Amicus Curiae) 311
12. Sanele Sibanda (Witwatersrand): Wanted: A Principled Approach to the Balancing of Policy Considerations Steenkamp NO v Provincial Tender Board, Eastern Cape 335
13. Ann Skelton (Pretoria): Severing the Umbilical Cord: A Subtle Jurisprudential Shift Regarding Children and their Primary Caregivers 351