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Juvenile justice review 1998
(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1999)
The 1998 Juvenile Justice Review charts developments in juvenile justice law and practice in South Africa from October 1997 until October 1998. However, the release of the South African Law Commission discussion paper on ...
Social Citizenship: A Precondition for Meaningful Democracy
(Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, 1999)
In 1959, the scholar, TH Marshall, analysed the historical development of those features that were vital to effective 'citizenship'. He viewed democratisation as a progression, spanning three centuries. Civil rights were ...
The Juvenile Justice Law Reform Process in South Africa: Can children's rights approach carry the day?
(Quarterly Law Review, 1999)
The impetus for juvenile justice law reform sprang originally from concern for the plight of child detainees in the dark days of apartheid in
the 1980s. Children, who were at the forefront of the struggle for democratic ...
Muslim Personal Law (MPL) in review”
(Centre for Contemporary Islam UCT, 1999)
Both the interim (1993) and final (1996) South African Constitutions now not only guarantee freedom of religion and belief but also makes provision within the Bill of Rights that legislation can be provided by the state ...
Muslim divorce and the 1996 Divorce Amendment Act: The cart before the horse?
(De Rebus, 1999)
The purpose of this article is to clarify some issues regarding Muslim divorces which have been the topic of debate in previous issues of De Rebus (1997 DR 495; 1998 (Jan) DR 55; 1998 (Aug) DR 31). The Divorce Amendment ...