The study provides a brief overview of the most important legal instruments in the international, regional and national framework on the development and promotion of children’s rights. Basically, it examines the continuous ...
This work is built on three pillars and seeks to contribute to the understanding
of the right to development (RtD) especially from the perspective of human rights
non-governmental organisations. First, the right to ...
There is an ever-increasing reliance on the law as a route, or resource to implement
desired change.' The law in this context is a complex aggregation of principles,
norms, ideas, rules, practices and the activities of ...
The legislative supremacy of Parliament, a dominant characteristic of the Westminster system of government, has for a long time been the basic norm of South African constitutional law. In line with the Westminster ...
The occurrence of internal armed conflict in Africa has increased over the last two decades. As such, Africa continues to be viewed by many as a troubled continent. In an attempt to avoid further conflict in Africa, ...
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is a regional economic community established by Treaty in 1992 and comprising fifteen southern African countries. The Tribunal, SADC’s judicial organ, is situated in Windhoek, ...
This short dissertation deals with separation of powers and federalism in African
constitutionalism through the South African case. It investigates the extent to which the
new South Africa complies with these two ...
Section 34 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 outlines the scope
of judicial authority as encompassing the resolution of any dispute that can be resolved
by the application of law. The courts in ...
The overarching purpose of this research is to establish the need for legislative and policy reform in respect of the exchange of sexual acts for reward and peripheral crimes in South Africa. It has sought to do so through ...
The dissertation consists of an analysis of the Constitutional Court decision S v Mhlungu 1995(7)
BCLR 793 CC. The analysis focuses on the significance of the different interpretative approaches
adopted by the members ...
This study examines South Africa’s legal obligations to prevent, suppress and punish grave breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL). Whereas South Africa signed, ratified, and domesticated instruments that seek to ...
The purpose of this study is to access the viability of traditional
African courts in a future legal dispensation in South Africa. The research
method used is a study of literature, court decisions and relevant statutes.
The ...
The dissertation investigates South Africa’s legal aspects pertaining to voluntary repatriation of refugees. The repatriation of Mozambican and Angolan refugees was referred to in order to examine the loopholes in the ...
Energy is the natural power stored in matter which can be potential and kinetic energy. This occurs in nature in various forms such as chemical energy, thermal energy, electromagnetic radiation, gravitational energy, ...
The study investigates legal and administrative aspects of the
interaction between public sector and private enterprise effected by
state procurement of goods and services. South African government
contracts are, despite ...
In the Republic of South Africa (‘RSA’), there are exponentially increasing and indeterminable
consequential risks and breaches involved in the spontaneous and indispensable personal,
official and general anatomic uses ...
Section 33(1)(b) is fraught with borrowed provisions. The end-product marries
German and Canadian features. The failure of the German Constitutional
Courts to interpret the "essential content of a right" precipitated the ...
Anthony, Allison(Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd, 2019)
The 2017 Preferential Procurement Regulations brought about vast changes to the legal landscape of construction procurement, specifically with regard to subcontracting. This article evaluates the impact of these regulations ...
This article explores the concept of substantive equality and how, as a constitutional value, it requires the consideration and application of restorative justice principles in the sentencing of rape offenders. With sexual ...
The author explores the traditional approaches to interpretation in a constitutional democracy, with specific
emphasis on Bill of Rights interpretation. The approaches adopted by the court in India and Canada, are
briefly ...