Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudence

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dc.contributor.authorKondo, Tinashe
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-12T07:06:05Z
dc.date.available2018-11-12T07:06:05Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractIn a country such as Zimbabwe where many are deprived of opportunities and resources owing, in part, to injustices of the past, socio-economic rights are of the outmost importance. As a result, the new Constitution of Zimbabwe, adopted in 2013, expressly provides for socio-economic rights. While these are yet to be extensively tested, two cases discussed in the article illustrate the willingness of the courts to enforce these rights. In the Mushoriwa case, it is shown that state as well as non-state actors have to refrain from negatively interfering with constitutionally-protected and enforceable socio-economic rights. The Hopcik case shows that there is a positive obligation on the state, which may involve the allocation of resources, to ensure that socio-economic rights are realised. These two cases serve as a good platform from which the courts can continue to develop the jurisprudence on socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe. It is suggested that guidance in dealing with more complex socio-economic rights cases can also be obtained from South African jurisprudence, particularly from the Grootboom case.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKondo, T. (2017). Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudence. African Human Rights Law Journal, 17: 163-193en_US
dc.identifier.issn1609-073X
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1996-2096/2017/v17n1a8
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4200
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherPretoria University Law Pressen_US
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectSocio-economic rightsen_US
dc.subjectTrendsen_US
dc.subjectEmerging jurisprudenceen_US
dc.subjectJusticiabilityen_US
dc.subjectInstitutional protectionen_US
dc.subjectConstitutional protectionen_US
dc.subjectJudicial enforceabilityen_US
dc.subjectTransformative constitutionen_US
dc.subjectZimbabween_US
dc.titleSocio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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