The Grootboom Case - Part 1
2000
Grootboom and Others v Government of the Republic of South Africa and Others
Provision of housing by the state
Although he didn't write a separate judgment in this seminal socio-economic rights case, Justice Sachs explains how he saw the issues and how the Court came unanimously to focus not on individual claims to get a house, but on whether the state had adopted reasonable measures to provide for housing.