Protecting human rights in a new South Africa

In this article, Albie Sachs provides a discussion of the five basic constitutional schemes that formed the basis proposals that were made for the new constitutional dispensation in South Africa. These constitutional schemes can be distinguished as follows, 1) Open apartheid, 2) Reformed apartheid, 3) Multiracial apartheid, 4) democratic apartheid, 5) Anti apartheid. in his discussion, the author unpacks what each constitutional scheme entails and outlines the advantages and difficulties associated with each of the schemes.