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Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship @ GEORGETOWN LAW 2012 A Journey from the Heart of Apartheid Darkness Towards a Just Society: Salient Features of the Budding Constitutionalism and Jurisprudence of South Africa Dikgang Moseneke Constitutional Court of South Africa, moseneke@.za Th s publication s the written version of the thirty-second annual Ph lip A. Hart Memor al Lecture, delivered at Georgetown University Law Center on Apr l 4, 2012. Th s paper can be downloaded free of charge from: /hartlecture/1 Th s open-access article s brought to you by the Georgetown Law L brary. Posted with perm ssion of the author. Follow th s and additional works at : /hartlecture Part of the Civ l R ghts and D scrimination Commons, Fore gn Law Commons, and the J ur sprudence Commons 2012 Annual Senator Philip A Hart Memorial Lecture A Journey from the Heart of Apartheid Darkness towards a Just Society- Salient features of the budding constitutionalism and jurisprudence of South Africa “He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath The horror! The horror! ” --Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Introduction and salutations My host, Dean and Executive Vice President William Treanor, I am grateful for this precious prospect of delivering the 2012 Senator Philip A Hart Annual Memorial Lecture, at the instance and invitation of Georgetown Law Centre. I am humbled by the task at hand because Senator Phil Hart was a great man in many senses. He is a celebrated alumnus of this esteemed University, a law school graduate and consummate professional lawyer.