CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY

Civil society organisations have and will be mentioned as partners, agents and autochthonous actors of social security. This has come about through advances in insurance products, through the kinds of social action engaged in by civil society organisations, and through the devolution of state power to citizens and civil society organisations. Rights to social security are decisively affected by the use of civil society organisations in the social policy field, and the implications of this use are investigated. If rights are to respond adequately to the concerns of injustice, inequality and poverty today it is necessary to develop a framework within which civil society-based action could be made rights-based and justiciable, and which could guard against the retrogressive substitution of state action by civil society-based activity. This book addresses this problem by illustrating how the South African Constitution can be made applicable to social action by civil society organisations.