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Apartheid was technically about separateness, but it was fundamentally about inequality. The founding premise of the ideology was to preserve the total hegemony of white South Africans. The liberation organizations opposing the apartheid regime sought to affirm that the country belonged to all those that lived in it. Thus, it is unsurprising that the commitment to equality is one of the founding values of the Constitution and an indelible thread woven throughout the fabric of the Bill of Rights. After some misstatements about certain rights being more important than others, courts have interpreted rights in the Bill of Rights to be of equal worth. However, the centrality of the right to equality cannot be gainsaid.
Recommended Citation
Karthy Govender,
The Developing Equality Jurisprudence in South Africa,
107
Mich. L. Rev. First Impressions
120
(2009).
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