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In the ANC document on the transformation of the Judicial system and
the assessment of the role of the Judiciary in the Developmental South
African State, the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development,
Jeff Radebe, reminds South Africans very often that, the Constitution
is the supreme Law of the Land that sets out to establish a
non-racial; non-sexist and prosperous society, founded on human rights.

It is important therefore, to say that any assessment of the impact of
transformation on a society founded on the culture of human rights
must be predicated on the Basic Texts of International Law on Human
Rights.

This require National and Regional Parliaments including the Pan
African Parliament to mount ongoing and periodic education programmes
in order to enlighten their members and citizens on the origin and
the socio-economic implications of human rights, and the need to
integrate human rights in the system of governance and the daily lives
and occupations of all citizens.

These education programmes should pay attention to relevant, proper
and simple analysis of a collection of major International texts
relating to Human rights, and these are:

A. Universal Protection of Human Rights ? these are texts prepared
within the United Nation and they include Conventions on economic,
social and cultural rights; Convention on political and civil rights.

B. Regional Protection of Human Rights ? these are texts prepared
within the Council of Europe and they include Treatise, Conventions,
Charters and additional Protocols to the Conventions.

C. Texts prepared within the Organization of American States, and
these include Conventions, Declarations and additional Protocols.

D. Texts prepared within the Organization of African Unity, and these
include the African Charter on Human and People's Rights (1981).

E. Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe,-CSCE, and this
includes Extracts from the Helsinki final Act (1975), the Concluding
Document of the Vienna meeting (1989), the Document of the Copenhagen
Meeting on the Conference on Human Dimension on CSCE (1990), and the
Charter of Paris for new Europe.

As we approach Human Rights Day 2012, it is important to remember that
only when a culture of human rights is significantly interwoven in all
levels of the public, a society and state founded on Human Rights will
be realized.