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Ackermann J

section 8(1) test was satisfied.[1]

[64]In my opinion Mr Davis’s remaining contentions cannot be sustained for the following reasons:

(a) This Court has given effect to substantive equality in its interpretation of section 8 of the interim Constitution;
(b) That analysis is no less applicable to section 9 of the 1996 Constitution and the additional words “and benefit” in section 9(1) take the matter no further;
(c) There is accordingly no need to fashion a new interpretation of section 9(1) of the 1996 Constitution. Indeed, in this judgment I have engaged in a substantive analysis in support of the conclusion for which both Mr Marcus and Mr Davis contend.


Consensual and Non-Consensual Sodomy


  1. Above n 17 at paras 27 and 30–33.
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