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Two decades of jurisprudence on substantive gender equality: What the Constitutional Court got right and wrong

Lee StoneCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 10-25 | Published online: 08 Jun 2016

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Laws

  • Republic of South Africa (1990) Maintenance of the Surviving Spouses, Act 27 of 1990, Government Gazette (GG) No 12390 of 4 April 1990.
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Case law

  • Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO) and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others 1996 (8) BCLR 1015 (CC).
  • Bhe and Others v Khayelitsha Magistrate and Others 2005 (1) SA 580 (CC).
  • Brink v Kitshoff NO 1996 (4) SA 197.(CC)
  • Carmichele v Minister of Safety and Security 2001 (4) SA 938 (CC).
  • Glenister v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others (Glenister II) 2011 (3) SA 347 (CC).
  • Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others v Grootboom and Others 2001 (1) SA 46 (CC).
  • Gumede v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others 2009 (3) BCLR 243 (CC).
  • Mazibuko and Others v City of Johannesburg and Others 2010 (3) BCLR 239 (CC).
  • Minister of Finance v van Heerden 2004 (6) SA 121 (CC).
  • Minister of Health and Others v Treatment Action Campaign and Others (No 2) 2002 (5) SA 721 (CC).
  • Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another 2006 (1) SA 524 (CC).
  • National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of Justice 1999 (1) SA 6 (CC).
  • NK v Minister of Safety and Security 2005 (6) SA 419 (CC).
  • Port Elizabeth Municipality v Various Occupiers 2005 (1) SA 217 (CC).
  • President of the Republic of South Africa and Another v Hugo 1997 (6) BCLR 708 (CC).
  • S v Jordan and Others (Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task force and Others as Amici Curiae) 2002 (6) SA 642 (CC).
  • Shilubana and Others v Nwamitwa 2008 (9) BCLR 914 (CC).
  • South African Police Service v Solidarity OBO Barnard 2014 (6) SA 123 (CC).
  • Volks NO v Robinson and Others 2005 (5) BCLR 446 (CC).

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