Certification of the Amended Text of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996

This judgment of the South African Constitutional Court is the result of an extensive enquiry in which the Court traces the background to the creation of the Interim Constitution, and analyzes the role and meaning of the constitutional principles. The judgment also explains the nature, purpose and scope of the Court's certification function and describes how it went about performing that task and sets out the reasons for its conclusions.