- Title
- Justifications and limitations of affirmative action
- Creator
- Weinand, Lorentia Leana
- Subject
- Affirmative action programs -- South Africa
- Subject
- Discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Subject
- Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- LLM
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/44077
- Identifier
- vital:37105
- Description
- The main aim of this thesis is to establish whether affirmative action is justified and to consider the limitations imposed thereon. Regard had to be made to the past position, as affirmative action emanated from the apartheid era. This paper provides for an extensive discussion of what affirmative action entails and compares the past position of unfair discrimination towards the current position of affirmative action. It is important to have regard to the Constitution, legislation and case law relating to the application of affirmative action. Within this paper reference to the Constitution, LRA, EEA, case law, academic writings and journal articles is made in order to evaluate on what basis affirmative action is founded, justified and limited. The approach used in terms of substantive equality based on the Van Heerden1 and Harksen v Lane2 judgments. Provision is made as to whom affirmative action applies to. The process of implementation of affirmative action is visited with a view to give guidance on how affirmative action should be implemented, what the short comings are in the public sector with the implementation process and to provide guidelines to achieve a positive and effective affirmative action in South Africa Because certain people regard affirmative action as reverse discrimination, the contrary had to be analysed by way of legislation and authority from case law in order to provide for the correct position. It would become apparent from this paper that affirmative action does not only apply to designated employees, after the Van Heerden Judgment the courts have developed their approach in a number of authorities for example in Alexandre v Provincial administration of the Western Cape Department of Health3. India makes use of affirmative action that is in some instances similar to the South African approach. For a distinct reason I have chosen a comparison between India and South Africa. The reason is that, each individual’s personal circumstances that are to benefit from affirmative action have to be assessed before affirmative action applies to them. Further that I do not agree with the fact that a group as a whole should benefit, therefore recommendations have been made.
- Format
- v, 87 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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