CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF SOUTH AFRICA 2nd Edition

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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
OF
SOUTH AFRICA
2nd Edition
Stu Woolman & Michael Bishop
January 2013: Revision Service 5
Editor’s Note
Intellectual activity is a little bit like seduction. If you go straight for your goal, you almost
certainly won’t succeed. If you want to be someone who contributes to world historical
debates, you almost certainly won’t succeed if you start off by contributing to world histori-
cal debates. The most important thing to do is to be talking about the things that have, as
we might put it, world historical resonance but at the level at which you can be influential. If
your contribution to the conversation then gets picked up and becomes part of a larger con-
versation or part of conversations happening elsewhere as well, then so be it and so much
the better. So I don’t think intellectuals do very well talking about the need for the world to
be democratic, or the need for human rights to be better respected worldwide. It’s not that
the statement falls short of the desirable, but it contributes very little to either achieving its
goal or adding to the rigor of the conversation. Whereas the same person, really showing
exactly what’s defective about democracy and democracies, sets a much better base for the
argument that ours is a democracy that others should be encouraged to emulate… . If you
look at the history of nations that maximized the virtues that we associate with democracy,
you notice that what came first was constitutionality, rule of law, and the separation of
powers. Democracy almost always came last. If by democracy we mean the right of all
adults to take part in the choice of government that’s going to rule over them, that came
very late — in my lifetime in some countries that we now think of as great democracies, like
Switzerland, and certainly in my father’s lifetime for other European countries like France.
So we should not tell ourselves that democracy is the starting point … . That’s not an
argument for going back to restricted suffrage or two classes of voters, or whatever it might
be — you know, the informed or the uninformed. But it is an argument for understanding
that democracy is not the solution to the problem of unfree societies.
Tony Judt ‘On Intellectuals and Democracy’
Dear Subscribers
Both of the authors whose work appears in this revision service understand Judt’s
point all too well. They do not bang their drums in the service of some timeless,
universal ideal. They address a decidedly South African audience — primarily
lawyers, judges and academics — who live here and now, and who must act, in the
service of justice, here and now.
Vicky Bronstein’s chapter on ‘Conflicts’ engages a moment in time contem-
plated by the decidedly practical, hard-nosed drafters of the 1996 Constitution,
but not quite yet upon us. When our multi-party constitutional democracy finally
catches up with its creators, Professor Bronstein’s work will be waiting to mark the
path. It’s consistent thematic beat enables the reader to track carefully the avail-
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able interpretations for each provision that addresses potential conflicts between
national legislation and provincial legislation. Her notion of ‘deliberate regulatory
space’ provides an incisive, preferred reading of these provisions, and raises her
contribution far above more formal, quotidian assessments of the same subject
matter found elsewhere.
PJ Schwikkard’s chapter on ‘Evidence’ could, on the other hand, have been
forced asunder by the sheer weight of extant case-law that notionally falls within
its titular ambit. As the co-author of one of the leading treatises on evidence,
Professor Schwikkard understood that the audience for her mini-monograph
consists of lawyers and judges daily confronted with a more narrowly defined set
of concerns regarding the legitimacy — as determined by a discernible core of
rights found in the Constitution — of the evidence allowed into our courtrooms.
We also wish to thank Richard Stacey, Steve Allcock and Patty Searle for their
editorial efforts. They understand that the path to creating and to maintaining a
decent work on South African constitutional law is neither straight, nor easy, never
ideal, and never, ever at an end.
Professor Stu Woolman
Editor-in-Chief, Constitutional Law of South Africa
Elizabeth Bradley Chair of Ethics, Governance and Sustainable Development,
University of the Witwatersrand Graduate School of Business Administration
Academic Director, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public,
Human Rights & International Law
Managing Editor, Constitutional Court Review
Advocate Michael Bishop
Managing Editor, Constitutional Law of South Africa
Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Member of the Cape Bar
Counsel, Legal Resources Centre’s Constitutional Litigation Unit
Research Associate, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town
Editor, Constitutional Court Review
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF SOUTH AFRICA
Second Edition
Revision Service 5: January 2013
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Second Edition
Revision Service 5: January 2013
KEY TO CONTENTS
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