University of the Western Cape

Other Constitutional Issues (discrimination, equality before the law and religion)

7) Minister of Home Affairs and others v Watchenuka and another (2004) 1 All SA 21 (SCA)

27 May 2012

Main Issue: Child of alien parents (asylum seekers)/ A Zimbabwean mother and her disabled son challenging the Refugees Act which generally prohibited employment/studying pending the finalisation of an asylum application.

Jooste v Botha 2000 (2) BCLR 187 (T)

27 May 2012

Main Issues: Child’s right to parental care under section 28(1)(b) of the Constitution.

S v Makwanyane and Another 1995 (6) BCLR 665 (CC)

27 May 2012

Main issues: Death penalty

Tasco Luc De Reuck v Director of Public prosecutions and others (2004) (1) SA 406 (CC)

27 May 2012

Main Issue: Challenging the constitutionality of the offence of child pornography and considerations of freedom of expression and privacy