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The High Court Judgment

Heher J, in the High Court, based his judgment declaring the common law crime of sodomy to be inconsistent with the 1996 Constitution exclusively on the breach of the right to equality. So too did Farlam J (Ngcobo J concurring) in S v K, a case heavily relied on by Heher J in coming to the conclusion that the common law crime of sodomy

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