Cwenga Mayekiso

Entrenchment by Interpretation: Section 25 of the South African Constitution and the Failure of Socio-Economic Redress

This article examines a paradox in South Africa’s post-apartheid constitutional order: a Constitution drafted to dismantle racial dispossession has become a principal legal framework through which the holdings that dispossession generated are secured. Although the 1996 Constitution is widely regarded as among the world...