In his decision in Ferreira v Levin NO, Justice Ackermann - inspired by Berlin - appears to favour the negative conception of freedom. Yet at the same time Ackermann insists that 'a broad and generous interpretation of freedom does not deny or preclude the constitutionally valid, and indeed essential, role of state intervention in the economic as well as the civil and political spheres.'
Reference:
Barnard-Naudé, A. J. (2008). Beyond the brother: Radical freedom. Acta Juridica: Dignity, freedom and the post-apartheid legal order: the critical jurisprudence of Laurie Ackermann, 273-297.
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