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• Preface Developing Law for the Anthropcene in the Global South
• Abbreviations
• 1 It's Time to Get Crazy Justifying Radical Judicial Responses to Intersecting Social, Environmental and Climate Injustices
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 An Environmental Law Dispute
• 1.3 A Socio-ecological Systems Perspective for the Anthropocene
• 1.4 A Global South Context and Justification for Radical Judicial Responses for the Anthropocene: Patterns of Marginalisation, Disadvantage, and Vulnerability in South Africa and Conceptualising (In)Justice 1.4.1 Poverty and Inequality in South Africa
• 1.4.2 Social, Environmental, and Climate (In)Justice
• 1.5 Methodology and Structure of the Book 1.5.1 Progressive and Reformist Legal Scholarship
• 1.5.2 A Legal Theory Emerging from a Tapestry of Norms, Woven Together
• 1.5.3 Justifying a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism by Grappling with Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes
• 1.5.4 Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism in Theory and Practice
• 1.5.5 Conclusion: The Importance of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism
• 2 Weaving Together a Tapestry of Norms Transformative Constitutionalism, Transformative Adjudication, and Environmental Constitutionalism
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Transformative Constitutionalism 2.2.1 Support for Transformative Constitutionalism Elsewhere in the World
• 2.2.2 Criticisms of Transformative Constitutionalism
• 2.2.3 Transformative Constitutionalism's Goals: A Critical Perspective
• 2.3 Transformative Adjudication 2.3.1 The Political Nature of Transformative Adjudication through Substantive Reasoning
• 2.3.2 The Need to Overcome Formalism
• 2.3.3 Transformative Adjudication and the Separation of Powers Doctrine
• 2.4 Environmental Constitutionalism in South Africa 2.4.1 Category 1: Laws Explicitly Aimed at the Protection of the Environment and/or Components
• 2.4.2 Category 2: Laws Requiring Transparent, Lawful, Participatory, Fair, and Reasonable Decision Making
• 2.4.3 Category 3: Substantive Rights Interrelated with and Mutually Reinforcing of Environmental Protection
• 2.5 Conclusion
• 3 Problematic Trends in the Adjudication of Environmental Law Disputes in South Africa
• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Overlooking Social, Environmental, and Climate Injustices in Environmental Law Disputes (the "Overlooking Trend") 3.2.1 Adendorffs Boerderye
• 3.2.2 Kenton on Sea
• 3.3 Over-Proceduralising Environmental Law Disputes (the "Over-Proceduralisation Trend") 3.3.1 Normandien Farms
• 3.3.2 The Barberton Mines Judgments
• 3.4 Under-Development of the Environmental Right (the "Under-Utilisation Trend") 3.4.1 Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Paying Lip Service to the Environmental Right
• 3.4.1.1 Propshaft
• 3.4.1.2 iSimangaliso
• 3.4.2 Under-Development by Virtue of Courts Presuming that Substantive Provisions in Environmental Legislation Give Effect to the Environmental Right
• 3.5 Overlooking the Relationships among Environmental Rights and other Interrelated and Mutually Reinforcing Rights (the "Compartmentalisation Trend")
• 3.6 Conclusion
• 4 Developing Law for the Anthropocene Exploring the Content of a Legal Theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism
• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 Justice-Oriented Framing of Disputes
• 4.3 Substantive, Rights-Based Adjudication 4.3.1 Substantive Engagement with Justice-Oriented Provisions in Environmental Legislation
• 4.3.2 Environmental Justice
• 4.3.3 Public Trusteeship
• 4.3.4 Developing the Normative Content of the Environmental Right
• 4.3.5 Ecological Sustainability
• 4.3.6 Inter- and Intra-generational Equity
• 4.3.7 Recognising the Mutually Reinforcing and Interrelated Nature of the Environmental Right and Other Substantive Rights
• 4.3.8 The rights to Life and Dignity
• 4.3.9 Socio-economic Rights
• 4.3.10 Cultural Rights
• 4.4 Conclusion
• 5 The Practical Significance of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism Offering Hope for the Adjudication of Future Environmental Law Disputes
• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Earthlife 5.2.1 The Framing of the Dispute in Earthlife
• 5.2.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in Earthlife
• 5.3 veja 5.3.1 The Framing of the Dispute in veja
• 5.3.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in veja
• 5.4 The Gongqose Judgments 5.4.1 Framing of the Dispute in the Gongqose Judgments
• 5.4.2 Purposive and Substantive Rights-Based Adjudication in the Gongqose Judgments
• 5.5 Conclusion
• 6 Conclusion
• 6.1 Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as Work-in-Progress
• 6.2 Law for the Anthropocene: A Moving Target
• Bibliography
• Index .
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Given the Anthropocene's converging socio-ecological crises, particularly the dire issue of climate change, social movements are increasingly approaching the courts to advance intersecting struggles for social, environmental, and climate justice. Transformative constitutional regimes in South Africa and elsewhere that incorporate environmental and human rights protections offer potentially powerful legal norms to advance the struggles of these movements. Grappling with such norms and with problematic trends in adjudication, Prof. Melanie Jean Murcott develops a legal theory of Transformative Environmental Constitutionalism as a novel framework within which courts could adjudicate environmental law disputes, developing law for the Anthropocene's global struggles.
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What was supposed to be a short business trip to Equatorial Guinea turned into a journey to the depths of hell. Black Beach, located on Bioko island off the mainland of Equatorial Guinea, is one of the world's most feared prisons, notorious for its brutality and inhumane conditions. In 2013, South African businessman Daniel Janse van Rensburg set off to the West African country to finalise a legitimate airline contract with a local politician. Within days, Daniel was arrested by the local Rapid Intervention Force, had his passport confiscated, and was held prisoner without trial in the island's infamous 'Guantanamo'' cells, where he witnessed torture for the first time. He was released by the courts but promptly rearrested, and this time taken to Black Beach. What follows is his remarkable story of survival over more than a year, made possible by his unwavering faith and the humanity of a few fellow inmates. In a thrilling first-person narrative, Daniel relives his ordeal, detailing his arrest, his flight to the South African embassy while dodging armed men, his near escape and subsequent rearrest at the airport, his harrowing incarceration at Black Beach and the horrific conditions in the prison, and his ceaseless hope to return to South Africa and be reunited with his family. A story of courage in the face of overwhelming adversity, this book demonstrates both the strength of the human spirit and the toll injustice takes on ordinary people who fall foul of the powerful and corrupt. -- Publisher's description

• Quick finder for key topics
• South Africa in brief
• The constitution of the Republic of South Africa: an overview
• Structure and functions of the South African government
• South African Parliament
• Groundbreaking judgements of the constitutional court
• Key addresses
• Sessions of the constitutional court
• National anthem of South Africa
• Map of South Africa
• Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996

The full text of the Constitution, with an entrenched Bill of Rights at its heart, is reproduced in this book. An introduction places the Act in context. Some pertinent facts about the country and its population are supplied, as well as contact details for those wishing to visit Parliament or the Constitutional Court. The Constitution informs every area of our law and of its application and interpretation. It is imperative for every legal practitioner and everyone in governmental and non-governmental organisations to take cognisance of its principles.
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'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator 'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David Lammy Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only advocate to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the other leading members of the ANC, the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre, and the inquest into the death of Steve Biko, he then became England's premier advocate. Through the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid - cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa, but across the world - this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature.
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"Bulelwa Mabasa was born into a ‘matchbox’ family home in Meadowlands, Soweto, at the height of apartheid. In My Land Obsession, she shares her colourful Christian upbringing, framed by the lived experiences of her grandparents, who endured land dispossession in the form of the Group Areas Act and the migrant labour system. Bulelwa’s world was irrevocably altered when she encountered the disparities of life in a white-dominated world school. Her ongoing interest in land justice informed her choice to study law at Wits, with the land question becoming central in her postgraduate studies. When Bulelwa joined the practice of law in the early 2000s as an attorney, she felt a strong need to build on her curiosity around land reform, moving on to form and lead a practice centered on land reform, restitution and tenure at Werksmans Attorneys. She described the role played by her mentors and the professional and personal challenges she faced. My Land Obsession sets out notable legal cases Bulelwa has led and lessons that may be drawn from them, as well as detailing her contributions to national policy on land reform and her views on how the land question must be inhabited and owned by all South Africans."-- Back cover

• The village boy
• Spattering out of the nest
• The daring spirit of youthfulness
• Testimony: black teachers who taught and taught
• Triumph over Bantu Education
• Some echoing themes from university life
• In the midst of a complex society
• Trials and tribulations as an attorney
• Why they did not fail
• Letting the sky be the limit
• Through the lens of a judge
• Taking a leap of faith
• The ultimate challenge: Judicial transformation
• Across the frontiers

"The book selects some past events and experiences, national and international, and wonders what lessons were missed, learnt, or are yet to be learnt from them. Tragedies happen again and again because we fail to learn from the past. The past is rich with valuable lessons - rich pickings. The reader is taken back into the past in search of some of those lessons, many of which, regrettably, we failed - and continue failing - to learn. As we dig into the past for those rich pickings, there will be moments to laugh, cry or even weep; but that is exactly how lessons are learnt in life. Other similar incidents learnt from, both abroad and at home, relate to the author's own experiences in South Africa, including as a Judge who heard amnesty applications as a member of the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The book hopes to show that capacity for evil is not peculiar to any nation or race; it also discusses the dangers of tribalism. The chapter 'Beyond the Frontiers' takes the reader into the rest of Africa. A lot is revealed, including divisions the author witnessed - while serving as an AU judge based in Tanzania - within the AU along the languages of, ironically, colonial masters; also referenced is the sorry state of human rights in Africa. Have we seized the opportunity to learn all the valuable lessons which that great teacher, 'The Past', offered? "-- Back cover

• List of Contributors
• 1 Apartheid remains: Nomos, law and spatiality in post-apartheid South Africa JACO BARNARD-NAUDE AND JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS
• 2 Un/mapping Black life: On estranged spatialities, colonial nomos and the ruses of "post"-apartheid JOEL M. MODIRI
• 3 On the San Dominick: Thinking nomos and postcolonial becoming with Melville, Schmitt and Fanon JULIA CHRYSSOSTALIS
• 4 Unlearning, (un)naming, cohabiting KARIN VAN MARLE
• 5 Inventaris van my bankrotskap as digter/Inventory of my poetic bankruptcy ANTJIE KROG
• 6 The ground beneath our feet: Black feminist geography in South African literature BARBARA BOSWELL
• 7 (Un)making Annie: Black female subjectivity, the normative (white) suburban South African home and land repossession VICTORIA J. COLLIS-BUTHELEZI
• 8 "Space is space": The nomos of apartheid, "the coloniser who refuses" and uncolonial spatiality in JM Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians JACO BARNARD-NAUDE
• 9 Queer states: Beyond the nomos of the closet in Tendai Huchu's The Hairdresser of Harare DERRICK HIGGINBOTHAM
• 10 Abstract space: Continuation, infestation and sanitation in the South African Lawscape ISOLDE DE VILLIERS
• 11 Unequal scenes JOHNNY MILLER
• 12 Sense of place, virtual displacement and a nomos beyond apartheid: What value for a rights-based approach? LORETTA FERIS AND JACO BARNARD-NAUDE
• 13 Memory Card Sea Power: Photographs by David Southwood TEXT BY SEAN CHRISTIE FROM 'UNDER NELSON MANDELA BOULEVARD: LIFE AMONG THE STOWAWAYS' AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID SOUTHWOOD FROM 'MEMORY CARD SEA POWER'
• 14 Rewriting type: Writing nomos otherwise IAIN LOW Index.
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This book considers the question of spatial justice after apartheid from several disciplinary perspectives - jurisprudence, law, literature, architecture, photography and psychoanalysis are just some of the disciplines engaged here. However, the main theoretical device on which the authors comment is the legacy of what in Carl Schmitt's terms is nomos as the spatialised normativity of sociality. Each author considers within the practical and theoretical constraints of their topic, the question of what nomos in its modern configuration may or may not contribute to a thinking of spatial justice after apartheid. On the whole, the collection forces a confrontation between law's spatiality in a "postcolonial" era, on the one hand, and the traumatic legacy of what Paul Gilroy has called the "colonial nomos", on the other hand. In the course of this confrontation, critical questions of continuation, extension, disruption and rewriting are raised and confronted in novel and innovative ways that both challenge Schmitt's account of nomos and affirm the centrality of the constitutive relation between law and space. The book promises to resituate the trajectory of nomos, while considering critical instances through which the spatial legacy of apartheid might at last be overcome. This interdisciplinary book will appeal to scholars of critical legal theory, political philosophy, aesthetics and architecture.
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• Making space for transformation
• Law and transformation
• Property barks
• Taking back the land
• Just letting
• Loosening bonds
• What's property law got to do with it?

In Human Rights and The Transformation of Property, leading human rights lawyer Stuart Wilson develops a novel theory of how law leads to social change and what the prospects are for South Africa's Constitution to shape a more just distribution of property. Wilson questions long-held beliefs about the nature of land reform and the appropriateness of the concept of ownership as a way of organising access to land and property in South Africa. The book gives an overview of key aspects of constitutional and common law property rights - including the rights of ownership, possession and eviction; the rights associated with leases and mortgages; the National Credit Act; and the PIE Act - and discusses how they interact. It shows how recent developments in the law of eviction, rental housing, mortgage and consumer credit have opened up new spaces in which unlawful occupiers, tenants and debtors are challenging the power of landlords and financial institutions to dispossess them. By triggering a radical restructuring of property law, Wilson argues, the Constitution may yet keep the promise of a South Africa that belongs to all who live in it. Human Rights and The Transformation of Property offers the most up-to-date critical account of recent developments in residential lease law, mortgage bond law and eviction law, and provides a policy rationale for these developments. It will be a valuable teaching text for law students and a reference guide for law and humanities academics, legal practitioners, NGOs and activists

In Precarious Battle tells how labour broking was defeated in the South African Post Office (SAPO). Labour broking has become synonymous with worker exploitation. By 2011, a third of SAPO's workforce was employed through labour brokers. These 'casuals' worked alongside permanent employees, some for over a decade, but for a quarter of the salary. David Dickinson shares the story of how labour broking provided cheap and compliant labour, and how the use of labour brokers in SAPO divided the workplace and the workforce. He charts the attempts of casuals to organise within the law and how their efforts were defeated at every turn. He describes the increasing ferocity of the wildcat strikes that followed and explains how eventually 294 casuals, the Mabarete, fought their own battle and ended labour broking. This book reflects on how labour broking created misery for those trapped in precarious employment, how the Constitution failed casual workers and how the South African industrial relations system is unravelling.
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• Preface - William Beinart Introduction Land, Law and Chiefs: Contested Histories and Current Struggles - William Beinart
• Chapter 1 Constitutional Court Judgements, Customary Law and Democratisation in South Africa - Geoff Budlender
• Chapter 2 Was 'Living Customary Law' There All Along? - Derick Fay
• Chapter 3 When Custom Divides 'Community': Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province - Sonwabile Mnwana
• Chapter 4 Chiefs, Mines and the State in the Platinum Belt: The Bapo-ba-Mogale Traditional Community and Lonmin - Gavin Capps
• Chapter 5 Grave Sites and Dispossession in Mpumalanga - Dineo Skosana
• Chapter 6 The Abuse of Interdicts by Traditional Leaders in South Africa - Joanna Pickering and Ayesha Motala
• Chapter 7 Resisting the Imposition of Ubukhosi: Contested Authority-Making in the Former Ciskei - Thiyane Duda and Janine Ubink
• Chapter 8 Black Landlords, Their Tenants and the Natives Administration Act of 1927 - Khumisho Moguerane
• Chapter 9 Customary Law and Land Ownership in the Eastern Cape - Rosalie Kingwill
• Chapter 10 A History of Communal Property Associations in South Africa - Tara Weinberg
• Chapter 11 'This is Business Land': The Hlolweni Land Claim, 1983-2016 - Raphael Chaskalson
• Chapter 12 Restitution and Land Rights in the Eastern Cape: The Hlolweni, Mgungundlovu and Xolobeni Cases - William Beinart.
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Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa - chiefs, the state or landholders? Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit. With respect to all of these issues, the courts have become increasingly important. The contributors to Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa capture some of these intense contestations over land, law and political authority, focussing on threats to the rights of ordinary people. History and customary law feature strongly in most disputes and succession to chieftaincy is also frequently disputed. Judges have to make decisions in a context where rival claimants to property or office assert their own versions of history and custom. The South African constitution recognises customary law and the courts are attempting to incorporate and develop this branch of jurisprudence as 'living customary law'. Lawyers, community leaders and academics are called on to assist in researching cases around restitution, land rights and customary law. The chapters in this collection discuss legal cases and policy directions that have evolved since 1994. Some chapters analyse the increasing power of chiefs in the South African rural areas, while others suggest that the courts are giving support to popular rights over land and supporting local democratic processes. Contributors record significant pushback from groups that reject traditional authority. These political tensions are a central theme of the collection and thus serve as vital case studies in furthering our understanding of rights and restitution in South Africa.
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• Preface - William Beinart Introduction Land, Law and Chiefs: Contested Histories and Current Struggles - William Beinart
• Chapter 1 Constitutional Court Judgements, Customary Law and Democratisation in South Africa - Geoff Budlender
• Chapter 2 Was 'Living Customary Law' There All Along? - Derick Fay
• Chapter 3 When Custom Divides 'Community': Legal Battles over Platinum in North West Province - Sonwabile Mnwana
• Chapter 4 Chiefs, Mines and the State in the Platinum Belt: The Bapo-ba-Mogale Traditional Community and Lonmin - Gavin Capps
• Chapter 5 Grave Sites and Dispossession in Mpumalanga - Dineo Skosana
• Chapter 6 The Abuse of Interdicts by Traditional Leaders in South Africa - Joanna Pickering and Ayesha Motala
• Chapter 7 Resisting the Imposition of Ubukhosi: Contested Authority-Making in the Former Ciskei - Thiyane Duda and Janine Ubink
• Chapter 8 Black Landlords, Their Tenants and the Natives Administration Act of 1927 - Khumisho Moguerane
• Chapter 9 Customary Law and Land Ownership in the Eastern Cape - Rosalie Kingwill
• Chapter 10 A History of Communal Property Associations in South Africa - Tara Weinberg
• Chapter 11 'This is Business Land': The Hlolweni Land Claim, 1983-2016 - Raphael Chaskalson
• Chapter 12 Restitution and Land Rights in the Eastern Cape: The Hlolweni, Mgungundlovu and Xolobeni Cases - William Beinart.
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Who controls the land and minerals in the former Bantustans of South Africa - chiefs, the state or landholders? Disputes are taking place around the ownership of resources, decisions about their exploitation and who should benefit. With respect to all of these issues, the courts have become increasingly important. The contributors to Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa capture some of these intense contestations over land, law and political authority, focussing on threats to the rights of ordinary people. History and customary law feature strongly in most disputes and succession to chieftaincy is also frequently disputed. Judges have to make decisions in a context where rival claimants to property or office assert their own versions of history and custom. The South African constitution recognises customary law and the courts are attempting to incorporate and develop this branch of jurisprudence as 'living customary law'. Lawyers, community leaders and academics are called on to assist in researching cases around restitution, land rights and customary law. The chapters in this collection discuss legal cases and policy directions that have evolved since 1994. Some chapters analyse the increasing power of chiefs in the South African rural areas, while others suggest that the courts are giving support to popular rights over land and supporting local democratic processes. Contributors record significant pushback from groups that reject traditional authority. These political tensions are a central theme of the collection and thus serve as vital case studies in furthering our understanding of rights and restitution in South Africa.
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• Executive summary
• Draft bill
• List of sources
• Introduction
• Overview of maternity and parental protection regime in South Africa
• South Africa's legislative and policy framework
• South Africa's obligations under international law
• Best practices in the provision of maternity and parental benefits to informal economy workers
• Benefits to be extended and to whom

Do you possess 'freedom'-the will to do as you choose-as an individual, as a participant in social affairs or as a citizen in the political realm? Well, no. Not really. At least not as most of us understand a term loaded down with metaphysical baggage. Don't worry. You've got something better: a neurological system capable of carrying out the most complex analytical and computational tasks; membership in innumerable communities that provide you with huge stores of knowledge and wisdom; and a politico-constitutional order that ought to provide the material and the immaterial conditions that will enable you to pursue a life worth valuing. Drop the simplistic folk-psychology of unfettered freedom, whilst holding on to intentionality, and you might be inclined to adopt a set of social practices and political arrangements that enhance the chances that you and your compatriots will flourish. As many recent studies of consciousness reveal our neurological systems are complex feedback mechanisms designed to create myriad for trial and error and (if you survive) the production of new stores of knowledge. Individuals-comprised of numerous radically heterogeneous, naturally and socially determined selves-are always experimenting, attempting to divine through reflection and action, what 'works' best: even when 'best' means fully embracing who we already are. Choice architects, those persons charged with constructing the environments within which we operate daily, should (if responsible) regularly run experiments that attempt to eliminate biases, and ultimately, deliver norms that nudge us away from negative defaults toward more optimal ends. A constitutional democracy, made up of millions of radically heterogeneous, densely populated individuals, constantly strives to determine what works best for most of its many constituents. Because South Africa's Constitution states (at an extremely high level of generality) only some of the norms that govern our lives, it remains for citizens, representatives and judges to create doctrines and institutions that serve its capaciously framed ends best. After canvassing the relevant literature in neuroscience, empirical philosophy, behavioural psychology, social capital theory, development economics, and emergent experimental governance, this work suggests that manifold experiments in living that fall within the accepted parameters of our shared constitutional norms are likely, over time, to produce more optimal ways of being that can be replicated by other members of our polity. Our reflexive stance toward best practices-a linchpin of this book's take on experimental governance-when inextricably linked to a commitment to flourishing and to the expansion of individual capabilities, should cause us to alter the content of the fundamental norms that shape our lives and bind us to one another. A political order founded upon experimental constitutionalism and flourishing promises an egalitarian pluralist reformation of South African society. The book spins out its novel thesis against the concrete backdrop of political arrangements and judicial doctrines that have emerged during the first 20 years of our truly vibrant constitutional democracy. Its trenchant analysis of political institutions and constitutional case law shows us how far we have come, and how far we still have to go.

• Early career
• Chaskalson Court
• Langa Court
• Ngcobo Court
• After the Constitutional Court

Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke's first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be a traffic officer, but life had other plans for him. At the young age of 15, he was imprisoned for participating in anti-apartheid activities. During his ten years of incarceration, he completed his schooling by correspondence and earned two university degrees. Afterwards he studied law at the University of South Africa. Practising law during apartheid South Africa brought with it unique challenges, especially to professionals of colour, within a fraught political climate. After some years in general legal practice and at the Bar, and a brief segue into business, Moseneke was persuaded that he would best serve the country's young democracy by taking judicial office. All Rise covers his years on the bench, with particular focus on his 15-year term as a judge at South Africa's apex court, the Constitutional Court, including as the deputy chief justice. As a member of the team that drafted the interim Constitution, Moseneke was well placed to become one of the guardians of its final form. His insights into the Constitutional Court's structures, the personalities peopling it, the values it embodies, the human dramas that shook it and the cases that were brought to it make for fascinating reading.
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Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke's first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be a traffic officer, but life had other plans for him. At the young age of 15, he was imprisoned for participating in anti-apartheid activities. During his ten years of incarceration, he completed his schooling by correspondence and earned two university degrees. Afterwards he studied law at the University of South Africa. Practising law during apartheid South Africa brought with it unique challenges, especially to professionals of colour, within a fraught political climate. After some years in general legal practice and at the Bar, and a brief segue into business, Moseneke was persuaded that he would best serve the country's young democracy by taking judicial office. All Rise covers his years on the bench, with particular focus on his 15-year term as a judge at South Africa's apex court, the Constitutional Court, including as the deputy chief justice. As a member of the team that drafted the interim Constitution, Moseneke was well placed to become one of the guardians of its final form. His insights into the Constitutional Court's structures, the personalities peopling it, the values it embodies, the human dramas that shook it and the cases that were brought to it make for fascinating reading.
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• Family
• Preparing for practice
• Finding his course
• Early political cases
• Romance
• Rivonia : the defence team and its work
• The Rivonia accused make their case
• Rivonia's aftermath
• After Rivonia : Arthur's practice
• At home
• Founding and leading the Legal Resources Centre
• The work of the Legal Resources Centre
• Lawyering beyond the LRC--and the Delmas treason trial
• Photo section
• In (and near) academia
• Negotiations begin
• Shaping South Africa's Constitution
• Forming the Constitutional Court
• Leading the Constitutional Court and the judiciary
• Jurisprudence : establishing the Court's constitutional authority
• Jurisprudence : regulating power
• Jurisprudence : the protection of rights
• Jurisprudence : the process of transformation--and saying goodbye
• After 'retirement'
• At home again
• Departure

Arthur Chaskalson was no stranger to the resistance activism can face in the pursuit of progress; in 1963, he and his legal team failed to prevent Nelson Mandela's imprisonment. However, Chaskalson had the fortitude to continue, establishing legal and non-profit organizations and leading South Africa's first Constitutional Court, eventually tearing down the apartheid system that kept black South Africans subjugated for decades. His is a story of progressive heroism, dedication, and an unflinching belief in law and civil rights

• Introduction
• Two regions, (nearly) one legal tradition
• Settings
• Beginning(s) of the project
• Cause lawyering and litigation in the 1970s
• Black consciousness in South Africa and the US
• Supportive projects : black women against apartheid
• Prosecuting frenzies and deaths in the 1980s
• US Activism and the Free South Africa Movement
• Namibia, sanctions, and apartheid's death grip
• Transitions during the 1990s
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Southern Africa Project trials and inquiries
• Appendix B: Southern Africa Project correspondent lawyers

Bureaucrats of Liberation' narrates the history of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a civil rights organization founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy. Between 1963 and 1994, the Southern Africa Project connected lawyers from Namibia, South Africa, and the United States. Within the Project's network, activist lawyers exchanged funding resources, provided logistical support for political trials, and mediated new voting and governmental systems. The Project's history provides a lens into twentieth century geopolitics tied to anti-apartheid, decolonization, Cold War, and movements agitating against white supremacy. In doing so, it pays careful attention to the Project's different eras, beginning with US Executive Branch officials helming the effort and evolving into a space where more activist-oriented attorneys on both sides of the Atlantic drove its mission and politics