The appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africa

dc.contributor.advisorPillay, Rani
dc.contributor.emailtotofiduli2@gmail.comen_US
dc.contributor.postgraduateFiduli, Toto Jeremiah
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-05T06:20:24Z
dc.date.available2023-04-05T06:20:24Z
dc.date.created2023
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionMini Dissertation (LLM (Socio-Economic Rights))--University of Pretoria, 2022.en_US
dc.description.abstractIt has been over 22 years since the Grootboom matter was adjudicated by the Constitutional Court and not much transformation has been achieved. Millions of South Africans continue to live under extreme poverty due to inadequate provision of social services. This situation may be attributed, to some extent, to the way the Constitutional Court has interpreted and enforced socio economic rights. Ngang explains that the court is faced with a challenge of enforcing socio-economic rights while respecting the separation of powers. This is precisely why the court adopted the reasonableness standard in Grootboom to adjudicate socio-economic rights, as opposed to scrutinising whether the measures adopted realise the rights. Van der Berg argues that when the courts adjudicate socio-economic rights claims, they should scrutinise whether the state allocated a reasonable budget for the progressive realisation of the rights. The state priorities can be evaluated by assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of resource allocation to fulfil the rights. In that way, the court will ensure that the state allocates resources reasonably within its available resources to progressively achieve socio-economic rights. It is against the background of the criticism of the Constitutional Court’s approach in adjudicating socio-economic rights cases that the present study is undertaken.en_US
dc.description.availabilityUnrestricteden_US
dc.description.degreeLLM (Socio-Economic Rights)en_US
dc.description.departmentPublic Lawen_US
dc.identifier.citation*en_US
dc.identifier.otherS2023en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/90357
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2022 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.subjectTransformative constitutionalismen_US
dc.subjectReasonableness standarden_US
dc.subjectInadequate social welfare servicesen_US
dc.subjectSocio-economic rightsen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleThe appropriateness of the reasonableness standard in ensuring the effective realisation of socio-economic rights in South Africaen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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