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- Title: Human Rights and Customary Law Under the New Constitution (Reflection)
- Author : Transformation
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 172 KB
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My paper was written in 1992 and published in Transformation 22 (1993) on the eve of the appearance of South Africa's new Constitution. The legal future was unsettled. A bill of rights was to be enacted imposing a rule of equal treatment for all people in the country regardless of their race, sex or gender. At the same time, however, the freedom to practise a culture of choice was to become a guaranteed right. In other words, the stage was set for a head-on confrontation between traditional African cultures, long associated with gender discrimination, and the equality clause. Culture and fundamental rights in the Interim and Final Constitutions