Fundamental Rights in South Africa: A Brief Introduction provides essential information about fundamental rights in South Africa, giving undergraduate law students a sound basis upon which to build their understanding of the South African Bill of Rights. The book seeks to examine every component of the Bill of Rights, referring selectively to current authority.

The book provides practical exercises that will assist students with understanding fundamental rights and that will keep them engaged in the subject.

• Introduction
• General rules concerning the Bill of Rights
• Interpretation of the Bill of Rights
• Classification of fundamental rights
• Normative rights
• Conventional human rights
• Modern social and political rights
• Constitutional recognition of pluralism
• Socio-economic rights

• Undergraduate law students
• Non-law students (e.g. political studies)
• Academics
• Politicians
• Civil servants
• Members of the general public