CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS
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INVITATION: LOOKING AHEAD FOR 2018: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE SCENARIOS
THE CONSTITUTION AND GOOD PUBLIC LEADERSHIP: BREAKFAST DISCUSSION SERIES 2018
TOPIC: LOOKING AHEAD FOR 2018: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOCIO-POLITICAL CHANGE SCENARIOS
Speaker: Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees and Head of African Futures and Innovation at the Institute for Security Studies
Respondent: Professor Silviu Rogobete, Professor in Political Science, West University Timisoara and former Consul-General of Romania
UITNODIGING: TOEKOMSBLIK VIR 2018: PLAASLIKE EN INTERNASIONALE SOSIO-POLITIEKE SCENARIOS VIR VERANDERING
DIE GRONDWET EN GOEIE PUBLIEKE LEIERSKAP: ONTBYTBESPREKINGSREEKS 2018
ONDERWERP: TOEKOMSBLIK VIR 2018: PLAASLIKE EN INTERNASIONALE SOSIO-POLITIEKE SCENARIOS VIR VERANDERING
Spreker: Dr Jakkie Cilliers, Voorsitter van die Raad van Trustees en die Hoof van African Futures and Innovation by die Instituut vir Sekerheidstudies
Respondent: Professor Silviu Rogobete, Professor in Politieke Wetenskap, West University Timisoara en voormalige konsul-generaal van Roemenië
CASE DISCUSSION: AFRIFORUM AND ANOTHER V UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE – THE RIGHT TO BE TAUGHT IN AFRIKAANS INESCAPABLY LEADS TO RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
The Constitutional Court (the Court) delivered a crucial judgment in December 2017 on the constitutional right to receive education in the language of one’s choice when it dismissed AfriForum’s leave to appeal in the case between the University of the Free State v AfriForum and Another (SCA judgment).
The SCA judgment upheld the University of the Free State’s decision to replace the dual Afrikaans-English language policy with English as the primary medium of instruction (UFS decision). Importantly, the UFS’s decision was mainly taken due to racial friction caused by a perception that the Afrikaans students (majority of whom were white) were perceived to receive better education, as the Afrikaans classes were smaller.
This raises the question whether the Court’s approach delivered an “objective and justifiable denial to the right”?
CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES
- Equality
- Non-racialism
- Gender Rights
- The Constitution
- The Rule of Law
- Multiparty Democracy
- Personal Rights
- Cultural, Religious and Language Rights
- Freedom of Expression and Political Rights
- Social and Economic Rights
- Property Rights
- Education
- Access To The Courts, Information And Fair Adminstration