This Week on The Scene: Judge Dennis Davis on the Prospects for South African Social Democracy

Judge Dennis Davis, legal scholar and jurist of the High Court of Cape Town, South Africa, discusses the reasons for the continuing and pervasive inequality and insecurity of today’s South Africa, almost thirty years after the country’s triumphant defeat of apartheid and embrace of democracy.

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(original air date: January 27, 2023)

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Read Judge Davis’s groundbreaking article, Transformative Constitutionalism and the Common and Customary Law.

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