ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the enormous contribution made by Albie Sachs to post-apartheid jurisprudence. It argues that the judgments of Albie Sachs could be regarded as generous judgment, his writing and reflections on judgment as a jurisprudence of generosity. The chapter presents Hannah Arendt's notion of judgment that stands in the guise of plurality, cosmopolitanism, and worldliness with the notion of the Afro-modern and the reflections on Johannesburg as metropolis and ultimately with the jurisprudence of Albie Sachs. Sachs described how it was impossible to make a decision being led by either life experience or dogmatic rules. He recalls a conversation with Jennifer Nedelsky in which she summarized Arendt's embrace of Kantian reflective judgment. Situating the judgments of Sachs and also a post-apartheid jurisprudence within a broader discussion of modernity and Johannesburg as metropolis is important so that it could be regarded as part of a broader engagement with law, jurisprudence, and judgment.
