Issued as part of South Africa's ongoing Constitutional Values series, this coin commemorates Section 15 of the 1996 Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion, belief, and opinion — a clause that carried particular weight in a country where the apartheid state had instrumentalized Dutch Reformed theology to justify racial segregation for decades. The series itself was introduced to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Constitution.
Issued as part of South Africa's ongoing Constitutional Values series, this coin commemorates Section 15 of the 1996 Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion, belief, and opinion — a clause that carried particular weight in a country where the apartheid state had instrumentalized Dutch Reformed theology to justify racial segregation for decades. The series itself was introduced to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Constitution.