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Molefi Jonas Mamasedi v Chief of SANDF and Others

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What's the definition of a constitution?

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The history of the idea

The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1955 carried the idea forward.

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