Human Rights and the Limitations of Releasing Subaltern Voices in a Post-Apartheid South Africa

Abstract

Postcoloniality and the achievement of human rights in South Africa mark the transition to a post-apartheid society. The denial and violation of human rights of particularly “black” South Africans under apartheid has placed the provision and protection of human rights centrally in the defi nition of a post-apartheid, “new” South Africa. Policy and administrative changes in education underscore this. The Preamble of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa reads as follows: