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Intergovernmental planning and budgeting in Zimbabwe: Learning the lessons of the past
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2017)
In Zimbabwe, the Prime Minister’s Directives on Decentralisation and Development of 1984 and 1985, together with the Provincial Council and Administration Act 1985, constitute the foundation for postindependence attempts ...
Implications of the official designation of Muslim clergy as authorized civil marriage officers for Muslims polygynous interfaith and same sex marriage in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2017)
From 2014 to 2017 some 227 South African Muslim clergy, including three females, graduated as civil marriage officers in terms of the Marriage Act 25 of 1961. Although now vested with dual capacity to perform both Muslim ...
The (mis)management of ethno-linguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption the ...
Between rhetoric and reality: the relevance of substantive equality approach to addressing gender inequality in Mozambique
(GAP, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to examine the socio-cultural challenges that continue to limit women’s enjoyment of their fundamental rights and freedoms in Mozambique. In this regard, this article focuses on three areas ...
‘Equally unequal or unequally equal’: Adopting a substantive equality approach to gender discrimination in Nigeria
(SAGE Publications, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to critically assess the approach of Nigerian courts to interpreting section 42 of the Constitution. This article argues that Nigerian courts are yet to develop a substantive equality approach ...
A gendered analysis of Section 48(2)(d) of the Zimbabwean Constitution of 2013
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
The purpose of this article is to critically review the provision of section 48 (2) (d) of the Zimbabwean Constitution from a gendered perspective. Section 48 (2) (d) of the Constitution would seem to have abolished death ...
Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudence
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2017)
In a country such as Zimbabwe where many are deprived of opportunities
and resources owing, in part, to injustices of the past, socio-economic
rights are of the outmost importance. As a result, the new Constitution ...
The thin edge of the wedge: ukuthwala, alienation and consent
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Ukuthwala, a mock abduction of a girl for the purpose of a customary marriage, has been subject to debate at both local and national level. This debate culminated into a South African Law Reform Commission Report on the ...
Strange (and incompatible) bedfellows: The relationship between the National Health Act and the regulations relating to artificial fertilisation of persons, and its impact on individuals engaged in assisted reproduction
(Health and Medical Publishing Group (HMPG), 2017)
Individuals are increasingly having recourse to assisted or artificial reproduction in order to realise their desire for offspring. This field is
currently regulated by the National Health Act No. 61 of 2003 (NHA, or the ...
A living customary law of commercial contracting in South Africa: some law-related hypotheses
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
Inspired by calls to ‘decolonise’ South African law and legal education, this paper will posit some hypotheses as to the nature of a living customary law of commercial contracting from the perspectives of two South African ...