Advancing human rights in South Africa

Contents
Introduction
1 Reshaping South Africa: Problems of federalism,
minorities and property rights
1 Preparing ourselves for power 2
2 The revolutionary potential of conservative ideas 9
3 Watch out there's a constitution about! 17
4 Minorities and majorities 41
5 Healing our cities 46
6 Property as a human right 68
2 Civil society
7 Privatized apartheid versus popular involvement 74
8 The future constitutional position of traditional
leaders 77
9 The future of Muslim family law in South Africa 83
10 Workers' rights as human rights 91
3 Affirmative action
11 Affirmative action and good government 98
12 Affordability and enforceability 111
13 Power (electric) to the people 116
14 The problem of quotas 121
15 The pripciples governing the principle: Seven criteria 129
16 Affirmative action and black advancement in business 139
4 Culture
17 Black is beautiful, brown is beautiful, white is beautiful 158
18 A bill of rights for South African artists 175
19 Twenty-one cultural fantasies 184
5 Viva human rights, viva!
20 Human rights in Africa
21 Perfectibility and corruptibility
22 The constitution is natural justice writ large
Appendix 1: ANC Draft Bill of Rights: A preliminary
revised text (May 1992)
Appendix 2: The shape of the new South Africa
Index