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Realisation or oversight of a constitutional mandate? Corrective rape of black African lesbians in South Africa
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2015)
Corrective rape is a form of sexual punishment by men towards lesbians in order to cure them of their sexual orientation. Black African lesbians are victims of corrective rape, particularly those in townships who are seen ...
Private prosecutions and discrimination against juristic persons in South Africa: A comment on National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development & Another
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2015)
Unlike countries such as the United Kingdom, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Australia, in South Africa companies and associations are not permitted to institute private prosecutions although natural persons have a right to institute ...
Evidence obtained through violating the right to freedom from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in South Africa
(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2015)
Although South African courts have expressly held that any evidence obtained through torture is always inadmissible, the author is unaware of a decision from a South African court to the effect that evidence obtained through ...
Diversion in the South African criminal justice system: emerging jurisprudence
(Juta Law, 2015)
On 1 April 2010 the South African Child Justice Act (CJA or the Act) commenced. The long title of the Act states, inter alia, that the purpose of the Act is 'to establish a criminal justice system for children, who are in ...