Understanding Socioeconomic Rights

Water under the bridge, and judges kissing babies, in this episode of Secondary Rules. What business do Courts have thinking about socio-economic rights? Can a Constitution transform a society, and can litigation safeguard a democracy? All this and more as we consider the right to water in the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

• Mazibuko  v City of Johannesburg [2009] ZACC 28
• Constitution of the Republic of South Africa(1996)
• Couzens, ‘Avoiding Mazibuko’(2016)
• Dugard and Mohlakoana ‘More work for women : a rights-based analysis of women's access to basic services in South Africa’(2009)

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