Suid-Afrika se hoogste hof gee die gemeenregtelike verweer van ouerlike bevoegdheid tot redelike en matige tugtiging ’n doodskoot : nabetragting oor die saak van Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others 2020 (1) SA 1 (KH)

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dc.contributor.author Bekink, Bernard
dc.date.accessioned 2021-04-06T10:53:16Z
dc.date.available 2021-04-06T10:53:16Z
dc.date.issued 2021-03
dc.description.abstract The debate in legal circles in South Africa about the lawfulness of the common-law defence, until recently available to parents, of parental entitlement to administer moderate and reasonable chastisement to their children has been going on for more than a hundred years. Notwithstanding the long duration of the debate and the important effect of the constitutional developments in South Africa under the Constitution of the RSA, 1996, in conjunction with the requirements of international law, legal certainty about this particular legal question was only achieved in September 2019. In Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others, the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa, decided that the common-law defence of parental authority to administer moderate and reasonable chastisement to their children, even in the privacy of their own homes, is unconstitutional and therefore invalid. After weighing up all competing interests and rights of both parents and their children, the court came to the final conclusion that no lawful justification remains for the retention of the defence of parental entitlement to administer physical chastisement to their children, not even on religious grounds, and that the limitation of the rights of children who are subjected to such practices are unjustified and not legally permissible. Unless legal amendments are effected in South Africa in the future, this decision of the court dealt parents’ entitlement to administer moderate and reasonable chastisement to their children a mortal blow. en_ZA
dc.description.abstract Die regsdebat oor die geldigheid van die gemeenregtelike verweer waaroor ouers tot onlangs nog binne die Suid-Afrikaanse regstelsel beskik het, naamlik die bevoegdheid tot redelike en matige tugtiging van hulle kinders, word al meer as ’n honderd jaar lank in Suid-Afrika gevoer. Nieteenstaande die lang duur van die debat en die belangrike uitwerking van die staatsregtelike ontwikkeling in Suid-Afrika onder die Grondwet van die RSA, 1996, in samehang met die vereistes van die internasionale reg, het daar eers in September 2019 regsekerheid oor dié bepaalde regsvraag gekom. In Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others het die Konstitusionele Hof, Suid-Afrika se hoogste hof, beslis dat die gemeenregtelike verweer van ouerlike bevoegdheid tot redelike en matige tugtiging van hulle kinders, selfs in hulle private wonings, ongrondwetlik en derhalwe ongeldig is. Ná opweging van al die mededingende belange en regte van sowel ouers as hulle kinders kom die hof tot die finale beslissing dat daar regtens geen regverdiging meer bestaan vir die voortgesette behoud van fisieke ouerlike tugtiging nie, selfs nie eens op grond van godsdienstige riglyne nie, en derhalwe ook nie vir die volgehoue inbreukmaking op die regte van kinders wat aan sodanige tugtigingspraktyke blootgestel word nie. Tensy daar ander regswysigings binne die Suid-Afrikaanse regstelsel aangebring word, beteken hierdie beslissing van die hof dat die toediening deur ouers van redelike en matige fisieke tugtiging aan hulle kinders ’n finale doodskoot gekry het. en_ZA
dc.description.department Public Law en_ZA
dc.description.librarian hj2021 en_ZA
dc.description.uri https://journals.co.za/content/journal/akgees en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Bekink, B. Suid-Afrika se hoogste hof gee die gemeenregtelike verweer van ouerlike bevoegdheid tot redelike en matige tugtiging ’n doodskoot: Nabetragting oor die saak van Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others 2020 (1) SA 1 (KH). Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, Jaargang 61 No. 1: Maart 2021 doi.10.17159/2224-7912/2021/v61n1a4. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 0041-4751
dc.identifier.other 10.17159/2224-7912/2021/v61n1a4
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/79315
dc.language.iso Afrikaans en_ZA
dc.publisher Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap and Kuns en_ZA
dc.rights Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns en_ZA
dc.subject Moderate chastisement en_ZA
dc.subject Reasonable chastisement en_ZA
dc.subject Corporal punishment en_ZA
dc.subject Common law en_ZA
dc.subject Best interest en_ZA
dc.subject Assault en_ZA
dc.subject Dignity en_ZA
dc.subject Limitation of rights en_ZA
dc.subject Parental authority en_ZA
dc.subject Education en_ZA
dc.subject Violence en_ZA
dc.subject Redelike tugtiging en_ZA
dc.subject Matige tugtiging en_ZA
dc.subject Lyfstraf en_ZA
dc.subject Gemenereg en_ZA
dc.subject Beste belang en_ZA
dc.subject Aanranding en_ZA
dc.subject Menswaardigheid en_ZA
dc.subject Beperking van regte en_ZA
dc.subject Tugtigingsbevoegdheid en_ZA
dc.subject Positiewe ouerskap en_ZA
dc.subject Opvoeding en_ZA
dc.subject Geweld en_ZA
dc.title Suid-Afrika se hoogste hof gee die gemeenregtelike verweer van ouerlike bevoegdheid tot redelike en matige tugtiging ’n doodskoot : nabetragting oor die saak van Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others 2020 (1) SA 1 (KH) en_ZA
dc.title.alternative South Africa’s highest court deals a mortal blow to the common-law defence of parental authority to administer reasonable and moderate correction : reflecting on the case of Freedom of Religion SA v Minister of Justice and Others 2020 (1) SA 1 (CC) en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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