Keyword: Bill of Rights

Memo to the Chief Justice: Democratic Freedoms are Indivisible

Picture: Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng courtesy GovernmentZa/flickr Dale T. McKinley - In a democracy worthy of the name, no specific belief, conscience, thought, opinion or religion has special legal or societal status. As captured in the equality clause of South Africa’s Bill of Rights, “everyone is equal before the law”, wherein “equality includes the full and equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms”. Those rights and freedoms encompass the political, civil, legal, environmental, social, economic and cultural. Simply put, all of our...