Tjaart Jurgens Maré Doctor Legum Universiteit van die Vrystaat

Hoofstuk 2
DIE ONTWIKKELING VAN DIE BEGRIP “ADMINISTRATIEWE
GEREGTIGHEID” IN DIE SUID-AFRIKAANSE REG, MET
VERWYSING NA DIE NUWE KONSTITUSIONELE BEDELING
1. ADMINISTRATIEWE GEREGTIGHEID
In Hoofstuk 2 word daar eerstens stilgestaan by die ontwikkeling van die begrip
administratiewe geregtigheid aan die hand van die vroeë Suid-Afrikaanse Reg, met ander
woorde, die reg voor die inwerkingtreding van die Interim-Grondwet.
Tweedens word gekyk na die begrip “administratiewe geregtigheid” met spesifieke
verwysing na die nuwe konstitusionele bedeling.
In aansluiting by Hoofstuk 1, kan daar veral verwys word na wat Rubenfield in ʼn artikel
“Freedom and Time” 92 sê :
92 Rubenfield, 1998:291-311.
93 Derrida, 1994:54.
“We can never govern ourselves here and now, by our present voice. Past and future
are always present in this voice, tearing apart its immediacy, rendering impossible
even in principle, even as regulative ideal, the conception of self-government as
government by our present will.
Firstly, who are we - we who are to govern ourselves through a democratic process of
will-formation? This we cannot announce itself, not in its own present voice, because
a prior determination of its boundaries, its rules of inclusion and exclusion, is
necessary to identify an expression of its will as an expression of its will. Selfgovernment
requires the determination of this we to have already inscribed itself into
the governing institutions of a going polity. This we will have been the product of a
history, a constitutional struggle, a struggle for law - usually at the cost of considerable
blood and fortune. (All this would be as true for a world government as it is for nationstates).
We who are to govern ourselves cannot define ourselves in the here and
now, we must inherit our identity. To be who we are, therefore, we must be governed
by the past. This is the significance of Derrida’s statement that ‘the being of what we
are is first of all inheritance, whether we like it or know it or not’.” 93
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