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Does recent litigation bring us any closer to a right to the city?
Marie Huchzermeyer
30 October, UJ, workshop on: Intellectuals, ideology, protests and civil society

The Bill of Rights and Constitutional Court are important institutions that were fought for in the negotiated transition.

Part of their role was to ensure that the kind of atrocities committed under apartheid rule would never be repeated.

One atrocity was to deny black individuals and households urban freedoms and rights, or ‘a right to the city’.