Our Constitution is no accident of history. It is the product of a glorious freedom struggle against apartheid, that crime against humanity, and it is a product of a vision for an enlightened future, says Valli Moosa. The former minister and one of the architects of the Constitution recently delivered the Kader Asmal lecture, where he gave a passionate defence of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution against anti-democratic critics from both ends of the political spectrum.