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The New Partnership for Africa's Development : implications for the realisation of socio-economic rights in Africa
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2004)
The New Partnership for Africa's Development : Implications for the realisation of socio-economic rights in Africa Christopher Mbazira The realisation of socio-economic rights in Africa remains a distant goal. The majority ...
Enforcing socio-economic rights as individual rights: The role of corrective and distributive forms of justice in determining “appropriate relief”
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2008)
Different notions of justice influence the remedies that courts grant in socio-economic rights litigation. The two theories of justice discussed here derive from the philosophies of corrective and distributive forms of ...
An overview of the Constitutional Court hearing of the inner-city evictions case
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2007)
On 28 August 2007, the Constitutional Court heard an appeal against the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the Rand Properties case. This case concerns the eviction of poor people from dilapidated buildings ...
The Draft Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2006)
Historically, economic, social and cultural rights (ESC rights) have received less protection through enforcement mechanisms than civil and political rights. Victims of ESC rights violations do not have the opportunity of ...
Federal homogeneity from the bottom up: Provincial shaping of national HIV/AIDS policy in South Africa
(Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2003-01-01)
The focus of uniform policy making in federal systems is usually on
enforcing homogeneity on units within a federation, based often on the
implicit premise that the center is "right," enlightened, or modern and
that one ...
Federal arrangements as a peacemaking device during South Africa's transition to democracy
(Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2001-01-01)
This article examines how federal arrangements were used during South
Africa's transition to democracy to deal with the conflict posed by two
important ethnic-based groupings: right-wing Afrikaners and Zulu
nationalists. ...
The numbering of days: Sentencing and prison population growth
(Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2007)
On 30 May 2007 the Criminal Law Amendment Bill (15 of 2007) was tabled in Parliament, proposing amendments to what has become known as the 'minimum sentences' legislation. The proposed amendments herald another chapter in ...
Ex-prisoners' views on imprisonment and re-entry
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
In the past 15 years much research has been conducted on the prison system in South Africa focusing on governance, law reform and human rights. It is, however, of particular concern that the voices of prisoners and ...
Giving money to children: the state's constitutional obligations to provide child support grants to child headed households
(South African Journal on Human Rights, 2004)
One of the most tangible effects of the HIV epidemic is the growing number of orphans and the emergence in ever increasing amounts of
households headed by children. These new family configurations pose a wide range of ...
At the crossroads: linking strategic frameworks to address gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in Southern Africa
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2007)
In recent years, southern African governments
have made a number of important commitments on
international and regional levels to combat HIV/
AIDS. The subregion has also seen a number of
strategic developments such ...