About the Library

The Constitutional Court library is, naturally, an invaluable resource for the judges and their clerks.

Since its inception in 1995, however, it has developed into a major national repository. And it has even greater ambitions: to become the biggest human rights library in the southern hemisphere, to serve as a hub for the exchange of legal materials across Africa and to offer, through the virtual library, access to its resources beyond the physical confines of the Court.

CONTACT US

  info@concourt.org.za

  Switchboard: +27 11 359-7400

   Constitutional Court , 1 Hospital Street , Constitution Hill , Braamfontein , 2017

   Constitutional Court, Private Bag X 1, Constitution Hill, Braamfontein, 2017

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.