Prof Sandy Liebenberg (HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law), retired Justice Albie Sachs, Justice Sisi Khampepe, Prof Sonia Human (Dean, Law Faculty) & Prof Geo Quinot (Vice Dean, Law Faculty)
On Thursday, 6 October Justice Sisi Khampepe of the Constitutional Court of South Africa delivered the Annual Human Rights Lecture of the H F Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and the Faculty of Law. Entitled “Meaningful Participation as Transformative Process: The Challenges of Institutional Change in South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy”, her lecture focused on the evolution and significance of the Constitutional Court’s meaningful engagement jurisprudence. Justice Khampepe also reflected on the relevance of meaningful engagement to contentious issues such as the Fees Must Fall Movement, and the language debate at Stellenbosch University. The event was attended by retired Constitutional Court justice, Albie Sachs, and Judge Lee Bozalek of the Western Cape High Court, as well as members of the legal profession, NGOs, students and academics. Justice Khampepe’s lecture will be published in the forthcoming edition of the Stellenbosch Law Review.