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Title: | A Court-Enforced Bill of Rights for South Africa? |
Author: | Dlamini, C.R.M. |
Year: | 1988 |
Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Period: | April-October |
Pages: | 81-110 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | human rights Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence |
Abstract: | This article contends that not only does South Africa need a bill of rights but that it is imperative that the country should have one. First, it analyses arguments against the adoption of a bill of rights: it is nothing more than a paper tiger; it is incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty (taking as examples the constitutions of Canada, Britain and the USA). Then it turns to South Africa and shows the necessity and possibility of implementing a bill of rights there. Finally, the article looks at the protection of human rights in Africa and points out that no less than 21 African countries have been listed by Amnesty International as violators of human rights. The adoption in July 1981 of the African Charter of Human and Peoples' Rights by the OAU is, possibly, evidence of a change of mind. Notes, ref. |