For Jewish people, ‘You shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the feelings of the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt.’ South Africans should remember they were once strangers in their own country, writes GarySEisenberg.
on foreigners, which resulted in the deaths of more than 60 people across the country.”
Challenging the lawfulness of the 2014 restriction was an arduous, expensive, and long-winded affair. My law firm’s endeavours first resulted in defeat in the Western Cape High Court, after which we prevailed on appeal to the Constitutional Court in June 2019, when the restrictive immigration regulations were declared invalid and unconstitutional — for the same reasons as O’Regan’s so long ago.
In 1994, Nelson Mandela created what became known as the Office on Child Rights, which afforded children the highest level of national priority, yet the focus on children’s rights in South Africa has since been effectively abandoned. In 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child the South African Human Rights Commission called on the government to urgently re-prioritise children’s rights.
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