Sloth-Nielsen, JuliaMbazira, Christopher2014-10-132014-10-132007Sloth-Nielsen, J. & Mbazira, C. (2007). Incy wincy spider went climbing up again – prospects for constitutional (re)interpretation of section 28(1)(c) of the South African Constitution in the next decade of democracy. Speculum Juris, 21(2):147-1660 6986 215 4http://hdl.handle.net/10566/1257INTRODUCTION: This article reviews the first decade of jurisprudence concerning interpretation of the rights enumerated in s 28(1)(c) of the Constitution of South Africa (the Constitution), commonly referred to as the children’s socio-economic rights clause. Three broad trends are identified, which in the main have resulted in a far more limited scope of application of these rights than was originally anticipated. In addition, affirming existing jurisprudence in relation to socio-economic rights generally, dicta of the Constitutional Court signal clearly that the Court is not going to be persuaded to accept or define a minimum core content to elaborate the scope of individual socio-economic rights a d the concomitant extent of the State obligations in respect thereof .en© 2007 Sloth-Nielsen & Mbazira; licensee University of Fort Hare. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.ConstitutionSouth AfricaDemocracyMinistry of HealthChildrenSocio-Economic RightsTreatment Action CampaignArticle