Abstract: It is beyond polemics that human rights discourses commonly conceptualise states as the primary duty-bearers of the normative obligations they engender. As with every human right, the citizen’s rights to basic social amenities and services entail the obligations to respect, protect, promote and fulfill. The overarching importance of this is that the state must take reasonable legislative and other measures, within its available resources, to provide and deliver adequate, basic and dignifying services to the citizens. By recognising the citizen’s rights to public services, the eradication of poverty becomes not merely a policy choice for the state but a legally binding responsibility for which it is accountable. These rights are well articulated in chapter 2 of the Bill of Rights in the constitution of the Republic South African, 1996. They are right to housing. Admittedly, a lot of people have benefitted immensely from social economics right by receiving services in the areas of housing, healthcare, social grants and improved sanitation, family support, education, fair labour relations, food security, water and electricity. The constitution and other pieces of legislation have remedial mechanisms against the state because the international legal order hoists human rights as norms that are primarily the responsibility of each state failure which the state will be held accountable.