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Legal empowerment as a tool for engendering access to justice in South Africa
(Sage, 2020)
This article examines the concept of access to justice and the challenges vulnerable and
marginalised groups encounter in accessing justice. The article further discusses the
recognition of access to justice as human ...
Analysis of the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case
(Law Society of South Africa, 2020)
The Western Cape Division of the High Court in Cape Town handed down the judgment in the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case on 31 August 2018. It declared that the state is obliged to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the ...
Probing the context of vulnerability: Zimbabwean migrant women’s experiences of accessing public health care in South Africa
(African Human Mobility Review (AHMR), 2021)
South Africa has a professed inclusive health policy that articulates that everyone is
entitled to have access to healthcare services, regardless of nationality and citizenship.
However, several challenges exist for ...
What gender legislative reforms have meant for women in South Africa
(2021)
South Africa is a much better place to live in today than before 1994. Having witnessed a largely peaceful transition from a pariah apartheid State to a democratic State where equality is guaranteed before the law, the ...
Shari'a in South Africa
(Aboriginal Law Bulletin, 1995)
Muslim Personal Law (MPL) is often practised to the detriment of Muslim women in many countries. The Qur'an is a religious text considered by Muslims to be the literal word of God. It is a primary source of Islamic law and ...