| Summary: | This mini-dissertation seeks to investigate the harm caused by mob justice to people
who are endowed with the right to life that is entrenched in the Bill of Rights. The
investigation is done against the backdrop of an elaborate Bill of Rights that makes
the right to life inviolable in democratic South Africa. It exposes the factors that
underlie the growing incidence of mob justice in the country and the implications of
this phenomenon for legal and policy options. The mini-dissertation proceeds from
the understanding that the state has a duty to protect the right to life and that mob
justice is unconstitutional and violates the right to life and its associated rights like
the section 35 rights, right to dignity and so on. It is necessary that the state acts
upon this phenomenon so as to fulfil its constitutional duty to protect the right to life.
Beyond the analysis of the incidence of mob justice in South Africa, an effort was
made to proffer viable strategic responses to curb the phenomenon in the short and
long terms. === Thesis (LLM) North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, 2014
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