Universal adult suffrage on a common voters roll is one of the foundational values of our entire constitutional order. The achievement of the franchise has historically been important both for the acquisition of the rights of full and effective citizenship by all South Africans regardless of race, and for the accomplishment of an all-embracing nationhood. The universality of the franchise is important not only for nationhood and democracy. The vote of each and every citizen is a badge of dignity and of personhood. Quite literally, it says that everybody counts. In a country of great disparities of wealth and power it declares that whoever we are, whether rich or poor, exalted or disgraced, we all belong to the same democratic South African nation; that our destinies are intertwined in a single interactive polity.
Prof Gerhard Lubbe, Dean of the Faculty of Law and
Prof Sandra Liebenberg, H.F. Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law, University of Stellenbosch cordially invite you to a public lecture presented by:
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro
Ubuntu, the Constitution and the Rights of Non-Citizens
Date & Time: Tuesday, 13 October 2009 at 6:30pm
Venue: J.C. de Wet Hall, Old Main Building,
c/o Ryneveld and Victoria Street, Stellenbosch
Parking will be available in the Faculty parking lot
(entrance Victoria Street)
Refreshments will be served afterwards
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