CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS

The Constitutional Court recently handed down judgment in a matter which addressed certain aspects of the relationship between credit providers and consumers. The judgment considered a credit provider’s obligations under the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (“the Act”) when it seeks to notify a consumer of his or her default before approaching a court to enforce the credit agreement between them.

1. The Centre for Constitutional Rights (CFCR) is a unit of the FW de Klerk Foundation – a non-profit organisation dedicated to upholding the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution). To this end, the Centre seeks to promote the values, rights and principles provided for in the Constitution, to monitor developments including policy and draft legislation that might affect the Constitution and the values, rights or principles provided therein, to inform people and organisations of their constitutional rights and to assist them in claiming their rights.