Socio economic rights in South Africa: symbols or substance?
markdownabstractBook review of: _Socio economic rights in South Africa: symbols or substance? edited by Malcolm Langford, Ben Cousins, Jackie Dugard and Tshepo Madlingozi, Cambridge University Press, 2014_ This comprehensive, edited volume of 15 chapters canvasses a wide range of contemporary perspectives on socio economic rights mobilisation in South Africa, from various inter disciplinary angles. For those who have followed the topic in recent years, the volume is a veritable 'who's who' of scholars and scholar activists involved in socio economic rights mobilisation in South Africa, and in particular constitutional litigation. Several of the numerous, and often contested views on this important sub area of human rights have previously featured in the pages of this journal.