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Celebrating Diversity

The Right to Exercise Religion in Public Schools in South Africa

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In this chapter, the authors consider how the rights to freedom of religion and substantive equality, as concretized in the South African Constitution and equality legislation, should be harmonized in the context of the exercise of religion in public schools. We use a legal analytical approach in considering how South African courts are currently dealing with the concept of “celebrating diversity” and how they should be solving these disputes: a descriptive and normative legal approach, in other words.

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  1. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Caitlin Reid

  2. Department of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

    Anton Kok

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    Kolawole Samuel Adeyemo

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Reid, C., Kok, A. (2020). Celebrating Diversity. In: Adeyemo, K. (eds) The Education Systems of Africa. Global Education Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43042-9_8-1

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