Book contents
- Anti-Constitutional Populism
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Anti-Constitutional Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Anti-Constitutional Populism
- I Populisms
- Chapter 1 Populist Constitutionalism – Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
- Chapter 2 Anti-elitism and the Constitution – Some Reflections on Populist Constitutionalism
- Chapter 3 Constitutional Populism in South Africa
- Chapter 4 Subaltern Populism – Dutertismo and the War on Constitutional Democracy
- II Courts
- III Anti-Constitutionalism After Post-Communism
- IV Eu Responses
- V Concluding Reflections
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter 3 - Constitutional Populism in South Africa
from I - Populisms
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Book contents
- Anti-Constitutional Populism
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Anti-Constitutional Populism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Anti-Constitutional Populism
- I Populisms
- Chapter 1 Populist Constitutionalism – Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
- Chapter 2 Anti-elitism and the Constitution – Some Reflections on Populist Constitutionalism
- Chapter 3 Constitutional Populism in South Africa
- Chapter 4 Subaltern Populism – Dutertismo and the War on Constitutional Democracy
- II Courts
- III Anti-Constitutionalism After Post-Communism
- IV Eu Responses
- V Concluding Reflections
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
On 13 December 2019, South Africa’s Parliament published a notice inviting public comment on a proposed amendment to that country’s celebrated 1996 Constitution.1 In seven tersely worded pages, the explanatory memorandum sets out the need for a change to section 25 – the property clause. If adopted,2 the amendment would add a provision stipulating that a court, ‘where land and any improvements thereon are expropriated for the purposes of land reform’, may determine that the compensation payable is ‘nil’. In addition, Parliament, rather than the judiciary, would be given the authority to specify the circumstances in which this kind of determination could be made.
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