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[16] During the argument the contents of sections 21, 22, 33, 36, 38 and 39 of
the Constitution were also raised.
[17] With regard to locus standi the applicant relied on section 38(a) of the
Constitution which provides for locus standi for a person in his position, and
also section 38(d), as his application will indeed have the effect that he is
acting in the public interest.
[18] The applicant also imparted the following particulars about himself, and in
general, in his founding papers, which particulars and facts were not
challenged:
a) That he is presently earning an income which he intends to bring into the
Republic of South Africa at the end of 2009 when he returns to South Africa.
b) That he is obtaining experience in the workplace which experience will also
be to the benefit of the Republic when he returns to South Africa at the end of
2009.
c) He did not have such money or such experience when he left South Africa
which he, in terms of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution (section 21(2)) was
entitled to do.
d) He did not regard it as being in the public interest that he be rejected and
disowned by his fatherland and he stated that he verily believed that on the
probabilities there were many other likeminded and patriotic South African
citizens who were in a similar position, as he is.
e) He stated that he believed that the State must respect, protect, promote and
fulfil his rights listed in the Bill of Rights and that by treating him on an
unequal footing, compared to other citizens, the State was infringing upon his
dignity and personhood.
f) That he is a loyal and patriotic South African and as proof thereof he related
that he matriculated after the first democratic elections in 1994 and the
Constitution came into effect in 1996 and that during 2004 whilst he was a