The interrelationship between equality and socio-economic rights under South Africa's transformative constitution

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dc.contributor.authorSandra, Liebenberg
dc.contributor.authorBeth, Goldblatt
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-07T11:54:05Z
dc.date.available2019-10-07T11:54:05Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThis article develops the interrelationship between the equality and socio-economic rights in the Bill of Rights to enhance the responsiveness of our jurisprudence to the mutually reinforcing patterns of poverty and inequality in South Africa. We proceed from the principle that rights are interdependent and interconnected, and examine the implications of this for our evolving socio-economic rights and equality jurisprudence. We argue that such a reading accords with the mandate of the courts to promote the foundational constitutional values of human dignity, equality and freedom in their interpretation of the Bill of Rights, and advances the transformative goals of the Constitution. The article examines how equality jurisprudence should be developed so as to be more responsive to material disadvantage and the values protected by socio-economic rights. Thereafter, it examines how an equality perspective can enrich South Africa’s evolving jurisprudence on socio-economic rights. We demonstrate how the value of equality can be integrated within the model of reasonableness review developed by the Constitutional Court for evaluating positive socio-economic rights claims. Finally, some of the strategic implications of this interdependent reading of equality and socio-economic rights for developing a jurisprudence that facilitates the attainment of social and economic transformation in South Africa are considered.en_US
dc.identifier.citationLiebenberg, S & Goldblatt, B. 2007. The interrelationship between equality and socio-economic rights under South Africa's transformative constitution. South African Journal on Human Rights. 23, 336-361en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/5007
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Journal on Human Rightsen_US
dc.subjectSocio-economic rightsen_US
dc.subjectEquality rightsen_US
dc.subjectTransformative Constitutionen_US
dc.subjectMaterial disadvantageen_US
dc.subjectSubstantive equalityen_US
dc.titleThe interrelationship between equality and socio-economic rights under South Africa's transformative constitutionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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