Section 17 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 enshrines the right to assemble, peacefully and unarmed, and the Regulation of Gatherings Act 205 of 1993 enables the exercise of this right peacefully and with due regard to the rights of others. The recent student protests across South Africa have occasioned litigation seeking to interdict protest action, which the universities claim is unlawful. Overly broad interdicts, which interdict lawful protest action, violate the constitutional right to assembly and have a chilling effect on protests. In a decision of the High Court of South Africa, Eastern Cape Division, Grahamstown, a final interdict was granted interdicting two individuals from, among other things, disrupting lectures and tutorials at Rhodes University and from inciting such disruption. In this note, the constitutionality of interdicting non-violent disruptive protest is discussed and analysed, using Rhodes University v Student Representative Council of Rhodes University and Others (1937/2016) [2016] ZAECGHC 141.

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罗得斯大学v罗得斯大学学生代表委员会：禁止非暴力破坏性抗议的合法性

1996年《南非共和国宪法》第17条规定了集会，和平和无武装的权利，1993年的《集会条例》第205条使和平行使这项权利并适当考虑了他人的权利。南非最近的学生抗议活动引起了诉讼，试图阻止抗议活动，这些大学声称这是非法的。过于广泛的禁止令，阻止合法的抗议行动，侵犯了宪法规定的集会权，对抗议活动产生了令人生畏的影响。南非高等法院（Grahamstown）东开普省高等法院的一项决定，准予最终禁令，使两名个人受阻，其中包括扰乱罗德大学的演讲和教程，以及煽动这种扰乱。在此说明中，