Albie Sachs And Transformation In South Africa

Author : Drucilla Cornell,Karin van Marle,Albie Sachs
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317819592

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Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa by Drucilla Cornell,Karin van Marle,Albie Sachs Pdf

Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Constitutional Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel’s sense of the word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook. The essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle, further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name of justice. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in the intersection of Law and Politics.

Author : Drucilla Cornell (jurist.),Karin Van Marle (jurist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:927404325

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Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa by Drucilla Cornell (jurist.),Karin Van Marle (jurist.) Pdf

Author : Albie Sachs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : UOM:39015032817762

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Advancing Human Rights in South Africa by Albie Sachs Pdf

Author : Albie Sachs
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776140008

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We, the People by Albie Sachs Pdf

A stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution. This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25 years of thought about constitution-making and non-racialism. Following the Constitutional Court's landmark Nkandla ruling in March 2016, it serves as a powerful reminder of the tenets of the Constitution, the rule of law and the continuous struggle to uphold democratic rights and freedoms. We, the People offers an intimate insider's view of South Africa's Constitution by a writer who has been deeply entrenched in its historical journey from the depths of apartheid right up to the politically contested present. As a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, Sachs took part in the Defiance Campaign and went on to attend the Congress of the People in Kliptown, where the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955. Three decades later, shortly after the bomb attack in Maputo that cost him his arm and the sight in one eye, he was called on by the Constitutional Committee of the African National Congress to co-draft (with Kader Asmal) the first outline of a Bill of Rights for a new democratic South Africa. In 1994, he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Court, where he served as a judge until 2009. We, the People contains some of Sachs' most memorable public talks and writings, in which he takes us back to the broad-based popular foundations of the Constitution in the Freedom Charter. He picks up on Oliver Tambo's original vision of a non-racial future for South Africa, rather than one based on institutionalised power-sharing between the races. He explores the tension between perfectability and corruptibility, hope and mistrust, which lies at the centre of all constitutions. Sachs discusses the enforcement of social and economic rights, and contemplates the building of the Constitutional Court in the heart of the Old Fort Prison as a mechanism for reconciling the past and the future. Subjective experience and objective analysis interact powerfully in a personalised narrative that reasserts the value of constitutionality not just for South Africans, but for people striving to advance human dignity, equality and freedom across the world today.

Author : Mia Swart,Karin van Marle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004339569

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The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on by Mia Swart,Karin van Marle Pdf

The Limits of Transition: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 20 Years on is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and critiques the work of the TRC after 20 years. The authors consider whether the TRC has continued relevance for South Africa. The book further explores the legacy of the ‘unfinished business’ of the TRC.

Author : Derek Attridge,Rosemary Jolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521597684

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Writing South Africa by Derek Attridge,Rosemary Jolly Pdf

During the final years of the apartheid era and the subsequent transition to democracy, South African literary writing caught the world's attention as never before. Writers responded to the changing political situation and its daily impact on the country's inhabitants with works that recorded or satirised state-enforced racism, explored the possibilities of resistance and rebuilding, and creatively addressed the vexed question of literature's relation to politics and ethics. Writing South Africa offers a window on the literary activity of this extraordinary period that conveys its range (going well beyond a handful of world-renowned names) and its significance for anyone interested in the impact of decolonisation and democratisation on the cultural sphere. It brings together for the first time discussions by some of the most distinguished South African novelists, poets, and dramatists, with those of leading commentators based in South Africa, Britain and North America.

Author : Peris Jones,Kristian Stokke
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004148215

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Democratising Development by Peris Jones,Kristian Stokke Pdf

What are the prospects and means of achieving development through a democratic politics of socio-economic rights? Starting from the position that socio-economic rights are as legally and normatively valid as civil and political rights, this anthology explores the politics of acquiring and transforming socio-economic rights in South Africa. The post-apartheid South African experience shows that democracy is not a guarantee for elimination of poverty and inequality, but also that democratic institutions and politics may provide means for addressing past and present injustices. Thus it is argued that democratic politics of socio-economic rights democratises development while also developing democracy.

Author : Muxe Nkondo
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000838343

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Social Memory as a Force for Social and Economic Transformation by Muxe Nkondo Pdf

This volume of essays is a reflection on social memory as a force for social and economic transformation. Written by scholars and organic intellectuals, it focuses on the uses of social memory, in particular the conflict between the legacies of colonialism and the movement for fundamental change. The content addresses both experts and ordinary citizens alike, with a view to advancing discourse on where we are right now, and how we move on from here to achieve meaningful transformation. As scholars and public representatives with a deep understanding of the social, economic and political dynamics of modern history of South Africa, the contributors offer their unique perspectives and reflections on history, politics, economics, culture, education, ethics and the arts, as well as the links that bind these aspects into an ecology of ideas and attitudes.

Author : Albie Sachs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Human rights
ISBN : IND:30000009715701

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A New City for South Africa by Albie Sachs Pdf

Author : Hein Marais
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1856499677

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South Africa: Limits To Change by Hein Marais Pdf

Drawing on the rich structural and political understandings of radical South African intellectuals, this book explains why the South African government has been unable to breach the boundaries of change erected by the privileged classes. It reveals why it has adopted conservative economic policies, and why the country's popular movement has failed to press home more radical opinions. Hein Marais compellingly probes the hidden dynamics of South Africa's transition, arguing that the democratic breakthrough was much less open-ended than generally believed.

Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9780253353900

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Performing South Africa's Truth Commission by Catherine M. Cole Pdf

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commissions helped to end apartheid by providing a forum that exposed the nation's gross human rights abuses, provided amnesty and reparations to selected individuals, and eventually promoted national unity and healing. The success or failure of these commissions has been widely debated, but this is the first book to view the truth commission as public ritual and national theater. Catherine M. Cole brings an ethnographer's ear, a stage director's eye, and a historian's judgment to understand the vocabulary and practices of theater that mattered to the South Africans who participated in the reconciliation process. Cole looks closely at the record of the commissions, and sees their tortured expressiveness as a medium for performing evidence and truth to legitimize a new South Africa.

Author : Darren Newbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 1868885232

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Defiant Images by Darren Newbury Pdf

"Photography is often believed to witness history or reflect society, but such perspectives fail to account for the complex ways in which photographs get made and seen, and the variety of motivations and social and political factors that shape the vision of the world that photographs provide. This book develops a critical historical method for engaging with photographers to try and understand how they viewed the work they were doing, and examines the place of photography in a post-apartheid era. Based on interviews with photographers, editors and curators, and through the analysis of photographs held in collections and displayed in museums, this research addresses the significance of photography in South Africa during the second half of the twentieth century"--Cover

Author : Narnia Bohler-Müller,Michael Cosser,Gary Pienaar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : 1920538755

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Making the Road by Walking by Narnia Bohler-Müller,Michael Cosser,Gary Pienaar Pdf

"This engaging, readable law book is timely for many reasons. In this period of political turmoil, amidst allegations of bare-faced large-scale grabbing by greedy politicians and their confederates, the principles and mechanisms of our Constitution become more acutely important than ever. Over the last quarter-century or so, through our courts' judgments, delivered without fear or favour, the Constitution has begun to breathe life. Much challenge and much peril and much work still lie ahead. But some of the vibrancy and influence the Constitution has already attained may be traced to the voices and personalities of those behind the judgments: the judges who write them. This book looks at the character and thinking of some of the judges who have helped to start the process of making our Constitution real. The text reminds us that behind the structures of state and the mechanisms of power stand human beings, in all their frailty, but also in all their courage and determination to make our country better for the poorest in it. In other words, judges who take seriously the promise of constitutional governance and of social justice under law"--Justice Edwin Cameron.

Author : Albie Sachs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520024176

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Justice in South Africa by Albie Sachs Pdf

Author : Jabulisile Mhlambi,Sandile Ngidi
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781920690182

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Mintirho ya Vulavula by Jabulisile Mhlambi,Sandile Ngidi Pdf

Mintirho ya Vulavula: Arts, National Identities and Democracy examines the role of arts and culture in development, and specifically its value in consolidating our nascent democracy and in facilitating the transformation of South African society. Contributors to this edited volume interrogate the role of arts, culture and heritage from a transdisciplinary perspective, enriched by the cross-generational perspectives offered by young and older artists, cultural practitioners, activists and scholars. Authors also offer some policy recommendations on how the contribution of arts and culture to social cohesion and nation-building can be enhanced.