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Socio-Economic Rights | The Grootboom Case - Part 1

Grootboom Case: Constitutional Court Press Summary

Grootboom Case: Constitutional Court Full Judgment

Grootboom Case - Part 1: Video Transcript

Video Chapters

- Where law and political economics collide
- Progressive realisation
- This is it! the case
- Dignity and the dilemma
- Feeling and bravura. The judgment.
- Reasonableness within available resources

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.

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