Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa

by Albie Sachs

This books covers the important human rights issue in South Africa with a view toward a future democratic South Africa. Topics covered free speech, judges and gender, the family, children's rights, the South African legal system, land issues, and the future constitutional position of
white South Africans.

216 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 1991

About the author

Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He was appointed by Nelson Mandela in 1994 and retired in October 2009. Justice Sachs gained international attention in 2005 as the author of the Court's holding in the case of Minister of Home Affairs v Fourie, in which the Court overthrew South Africa's statute defining marriage as between one man and one woman, finding this to be a violation of the Constitution's general mandate for equal protection for all and its specific mandate against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.