Constitutional Court Deluxe Package: Art and Justice: The Art of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Light On A Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa Touring the Constitutional Court of South Africa with Justice Albie Sachs “This is the most beautiful court building I have ever seen.” US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader [...]

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Author: Various, English, Collectible,
Price: (ZA)R 700.00

David Krut Publishing (DKP) and the Constitutional Court extend an invitation to you to explore the Court and its art collection, and visit the DKP bookstore on Constitution Square. In honour of the Court DKP has published Light On a Hill: The Building of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the soon to be [...]

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The Constitutional Court Trust, in collaboration with the Philatelic Division of the South African Post Office, has produced a range of unique postage stamps that celebrate the exquisite architecture of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The stamps are reproductions of Angela Buckland’s beautiful photographs of the court featured in Light on a Hill: Building [...]

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Colin Eglin was at the frontline of the making of South African history for the second half of the 20th Century. He served in Parliament through the terms of seven successive prime ministers and presidents – from J.G. Strijdom to Thabo Mbeki; and under five constitutions, from the Union Constitution to the constitution of 1996.

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Author: Colin Eglin, English, NonArt, Soft cover, 240x163mm, 373pp, ISBN: 978 1868 422531,
Price: (ZA)R 240.00

David Krut Publishing invites you to the Cape Town launch of ‘Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa.’ The first Cape Town showing of a documentary film on the Court, will take place at the launch and Justice Albie Sachs and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen will be present to sign books.

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When the new Constitutional Court of South Africa was officially opened in 2004 it caused a stir in the legal and architectural fraternities. It was built on the site of the notorious Old Fort Prison that had once held Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and was an unlikely building for a court.

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Our bookstore at 140 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood has a wide range of titles that will appeal to a broad audience. Our own titles as well as books from other South African and international publishers are available in the store and on this site. We specialise in books on contemporary art, architecture and design and we are the sole distributors in Southern Africa of books from Tate Publishing, UK, Nazraeli Press, USA and illumination video’s of contemporary British art.

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LIGHT ON A HILL: BUILDING THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
With photographs by Angela Buckland
Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen

The new Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated in 2004, ten years after the demise of apartheid and South Africa’s first democratic elections that brought the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela to power. The historic new building was the work of a team of young South African architects who had won the international competition for the design and building of the Court.

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Author: Edited by Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Photographs by Angel Buckland, English, Multimedia, Full colour, Hard cover, 176 pages, 28x28cm, ISBN: 978 0 9584860 7 1,
Price: (ZA)R 340.00

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The David Krut team set out for the constitutional court in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The team consisted of David Krut (publisher), Adele (graphic artist) Bronwyn (editor), Cara (publicist), Nicolette (copywriter) and Bazukile (junior writer).

The objective of the trip was to finalise the book cover and to strategies how to market the book Light on a hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa which deals with the architectural aspects of the building and the story behind the design.

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