Abstract This paper explores the relationship between the protection of property rights and the effort to embed constitutionalism in South Africa since 1994. While the question of land will be central to the paper, property must be understood more broadly to include government’s distributive efforts in the democratic era beginning with the Reconstruction and Development Programme through the provision of various social-grant programmes to the adoption of affirmative action, black economic empowerment and preferential government procurement rules. Finally, the paper will focus on the re-emergence of the demand for land. While I acknowledge that a number of factors might hinder or promote post-colonial constitutionalism – including legal education, the need for constitutional ideas to be articulated in indigenous languages and the extent of participation in the political process – the paper focuses on the underlying political economy of colonial and post-colonial society, including the legacies of continued inequality and exclusion, to explore whether a sustainable constitutionalism is possible.

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非殖民化、补偿和宪政：后种族隔离南非的土地、财富和宪政的可持续性

摘要 本文探讨了自 1994 年以来南非保护产权与嵌入宪政的努力之间的关系。虽然土地问题将是本文的核心，但必须更广泛地理解财产，以包括政府在民主制度中的分配努力。通过提供各种社会补助计划以采取平权行动、黑人经济赋权和优惠政府采购规则，从重建和发展计划开始。最后，本文将重点关注土地需求的重新出现。虽然我承认许多因素可能会阻碍或促进后殖民宪政——包括法律教育，