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District municipalities : giving effect to shared authority in local government
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2003-01)
A new feature of local government outside metropolitan areas is the establishment of 47 district municipalities in December 2000. They share legislative and administrative powers with local municipalities in their area. ...
South Africa's Heart of Darkness: Sex crimes and child offenders: some trends
(South African Crime Quarterly, 2003)
It is a source of great concern that the number of sexual offences committed by children is apparently on the increase. Given that the Child Justice Bill provides for a separate criminal justice process for children, and ...
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 ...
The constitutional family: developments in South African family law and jurisprudence under the 1996 Constitution
(Oxford University Press, 2003)
The article reviews the process of liberalization of child and family law that has occurred since the adoption of South Africa's 1996 Constitution. Although the Constitution does not expressly protect the right to family ...
Realising the right of access to water: pipe dream or watershed?
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
The article assesses the implications of the Grootboom judgment on the right of access to water. The free basic water policy intends six free kilolitres of water per household per month to be funded from the equitable share ...
Too little? Too late? The implications of the Grootboom case for state responses to child-headed households
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
The article begins with an overview of the socio-economic context surrounding child-headed households and then discusses the constitutional obligations that rest on the state vis-a-vis children growing up in these settings. ...