The Convention for a Democratic South Africa and Socio-Economic Rights

Current issues concerning socio-economic challenges faced by the majority of South Africans are attributed to the former apartheid regime and its inequality policies between black and white citizens. Salient to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks was the centralization of the negotiations on the political transition from the old apartheid regime to a democratic dispensation at the expense of socio-economic discussions. It is for this reason that this book examined the historical background leading up to the CODESA talks and the impact of the former liberation movements in the attainment of peace and stability in South Africa. The book also examines socio-economic rights from the South African perspective and further analyses how these rights ought to be fulfilled and enforced by the courts. Further examination is on the transitional justice system towards the constitutional reforms and on the failure of the prosecuting authorities to prosecute the perpetrators of apartheid atrocities. Towards the end, this book focused on the proposed peace framework which must include the socio-economic rights towards a new transitional period.

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Konanani Happy Raligilia is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at UNISA; a member of the Policy and Research Committee at BMF; and Project Leader of the Medical Law and Biotechnology flagship at UNISA. He holds an LLB (Univen), an LLM in Labour Law (University of Limpopo), and an LLM in International Law (University of Pretoria).