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The South African Transition to Democratic Rule: Lessons for International and Comparative Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 February 2017
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1 For further discussion of CRT, see generally Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado & Jean Stephancic eds., 2000); Kimberle Crenshaw et al., Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (1996).
2 Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader (Adrien Katherine Wing ed., 2000).
3 I have written about the subject mentioned in this paragraph in greater detail in The New South African Constitution: An Example for Palestinian Consideration, 7 Palestine Y. B. Int’l L. 105 (1992-94). I have written about the constitutional process in Communitarianism vs. Individualism: Constitutionalism in Namibia and South Africa, 11 Wise. Int’l L.J. 295 (1993).
4 My writings include Legal Decision Making during the Palestinian Intifada: Embryonic Self-Rule, 18 Yale J. Int’l L. 95 (1993); Democracy, Constitutionalism & The Future State of Palestine (1994); From Liberation to State Building in South Africa: Some Constitutional Considerations for Palestine, in Liberation, Democratization and Transitions to Statehood in the Third World 91 (May Jayyusi ed., 1998); Human Rights in the Palestinian Basic Law, in Moral Imperialism (Berta Hernandez-Trayol ed., 2000); The Palestinian Basic Law: Embryonic Constitutionalism, 31 Case W. Res. J. Int’l L. 383 (1999).
5 For more on the TRC, see, e.g., Omar, Abdullah, Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Accounting/or the Past, 4 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 5 (1998)Google Scholar; Goldstone, Richard, Justice as a Tool for Peace-Making: Truth Commissions and International Criminal Tribunals, 28 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 485 (1996)Google Scholar.
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7 See Wayne R. Lafave & Austin W. Scott, Substantive Criminal Law §§ 1.5, 2.14 (1986).
8 Lansing, Paul & King, Judy, South Africa ‘s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The Conflict between Individual Justice and National Healing in the Post-Apartheid Age, 15 Ariz. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 753, 766 nn. 114, 115(1998)Google Scholar.
9 wa Mutua, Makau, Hope and Despairfora New South Africa: The Limits of Rights Discourse, 10 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 63 (1997)Google Scholar.
10 I was privileged to be involved as a pro bono adviser to the African National Congress Constitutional Committee in the years leading up to the 1993 interim Constitution, which incorporated most of these protections in its equality clause, with the exceptions being pregnancy, birth and marital status.
11 Wing, Adrien K. & de Carvalho, Eunice, Black South African Women: Towards Equal Rights, 8 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 57 (1995)Google Scholar.
12 State v. Kampher, 1997 (4) SA 460 (C) 463. For further discussion of this case, see Jennifer Lukot’f, South Africa Takes the Initial Step toward a Brilliant Twenty-First Century: A Comparative Study of State v. Kampher & Bowers v. Hardwick, 18 N.Y.L. SCH. J. Int’l & COMP. L. 459 (1999). For more on the rights of homosexuals, see Johnson, Voris, Making Words on a Page Become Everyday Life: A Strategy to Help Gay Men and Lesbians Achieve Full Equality under South Africa’s Constitution, 11 EMORY Int’l L. Rev. 583 (1997)Google Scholar.
13 See a Critical Race Feminist Conceptualization of Violence: South African and Palestinian Women, 60 Albany L. Rev. 943(1997).