(d) If the discrimination is found to be unfair then
determination will have to be made as to whether the
provision can be justified under the limitations clause
provisions of the Constitution."
119. The above approach, has been consistently applied in a number of
decisions including the National Coalition for Gays and Lesbian
Equality v Minister of Home Affairs 200 (2) SA 1 (CC), which is
referred to in the Constitutional Court's decision of Gumede (born
Shange) v President of the Republic of Sout/1 Africa & Others (CCT
50/08), ]ooste v Score Supermarket Trading (Pty) Ltd 1999 (2) SA 1
(CC), Du Toit v Minister of Welfare and Population Development &
Others 2003 (2) SA 198 (CC), Satchwell v President of the Republic
of South Africa 2002 (6) SA 1 (CC), J v Director General Department
of Home Affairs 2003 (5) SA 621 (CC).
120. The approach in Zimbabwe law has hardly been any different.
To
begin with, our Courts have been consistent, in the few cases that have
been heard before the same, in holding that discrimination on the
grounds of sex is not permitted.
Wazara v Principal of Belvedere
Tecl1nical Teachers College and Anotl1er 1997 (2) 508 (H), dealt with
the question of discrimination against women in the form of the right
of a college to expel a pregnant woman. Smith J, had no hesitation in
holding that would constitute unlawful discrimination for the purposes
of Section 23 (2) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe although the only
caveat being that Constitutional of Zimbabwe Amendment No. 14
being Act No. 14 of 1996, only became law on the
6th
of December
1996, a few days before this case was decided. 12
12
lt was Constitutional Amendment No. 14, which introduced the concept of discrimination based on gender.
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