The land is ours - South Africa's first black lawyers and the birth of constitutionalism. TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI. Penguin Books, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN: 978 1 77609 285 7. Lawfare - Judging politics in South Africa. MICHELLE LE ROUX AND DENNIS DAVIS. Jonathan Ball, 2019. 351 pp. ISBN 978-1-86842-960-8: The Land Is Ours: South Africa's First Black Lawyers and the Birth Of Constitutionalism. By TEMBEKA NGCUKAITOBI. Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2018. 312 pp. ISBN 978 1 77609 285 7.: Lawfare: Judging Politics in South Africa. By MICHELLE LE ROUX and DENNIS DAVIS. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2019. 351 pp. ISBN 978 1 86842 960 8
This review essay comprises two main parts. The first provides a brief overview of the books that focuses on detailing how the authors approach their respective subject matter, in particular connecting historical occurrences to contemporary upheavals. The second part makes a critical intervention by...
| Publicado en: | South African Historical Journal Vol. 73; no. 4; pp. 927 - 948 |
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| Sumario: | This review essay comprises two main parts. The first provides a brief overview of the books that focuses on detailing how the authors approach their respective subject matter, in particular connecting historical occurrences to contemporary upheavals. The second part makes a critical intervention by interrogating some of the arguments made by the authors to determine whether their historical claims indeed support the conclusions they proffer regarding the state of contemporary South African constitutionalism. In particular, the article engages the texts at the point at which they are demonstrably at pains to position themselves as being in conversation with the present, as they seek to mount a simultaneous defence and rescue of the current South African constitutional project from antagonists accused of either misunderstanding or attacking the constitution's Eurocentric origins. |
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