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Local law making in Cape Town: A case study of the municipal planning by-law process
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2016)
This report examines municipal law making surrounding land use planning
in the City of Cape Town. It investigates the extent to which the City of Cape
Town has powers to make by-laws on land use planning and how much of ...
Privatization and the role of sub-national governments in the Latin American power sector: A plea for less subsidiarity?
(International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy (IJEEP), 2018)
In this paper, we explore the cross-national impact of privatization in the network industries on the access to network services. We focus on the assessment of the electricity sector in 20 Latin American countries and ...
Civic space and human rights advocacy in the extractive industry in Uganda: Implications of the 2016 Non-Governmental Organisations Act for oil and gas civil society organisations
(African Human Rights Law Journal, 2018)
The discovery of oil and gas in Uganda has been identified as having the potential to transform Uganda’s economy, moving Uganda away from a predominantly low-income to a competitive upper-middle-income country by 2040. ...
Unaccompanied and separated foreign children in the care system in the Western Cape – a socio-legal study
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2016)
This article reports on the findings of a study of foreign children
accommodated in the care system in the Western Cape, based
on fieldwork conducted in child and youth care centres. The
objectives of the study were ...
Barnard v Minister of Justice: the minister’s verdict - Deciding on parole for offenders serving life sentences
(Institute for Security Studies, 2017)
Parole for offenders serving life sentences has ignited questions in media reports and political circles. This complexity becomes a touchy issue when it leaves more questions than answers after the grant or decline to place ...
Survey of detention visiting mechanisms in Africa
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2013)
Mechanisms of detention oversight may refer to any number of activities or approaches which would result in the institution of detention
being held accountable to the overseeing body. Such actions may include public ...
The appointment and dismissal of the NDPP: Instability since 1998
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)
The position of National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) has emerged since 1998 as one of the most unstable positions in government. This can to a large degree t be ascribed to how appointments and dismissals are ...
Understanding Oscar’s sentence: Sentencing under Section 276(1)(i) of the Criminal Procedure Act
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2015)
The recent announcement of the imminent, and subsequently suspended, release on correctional supervision of Oscar Pistorius has attracted significant media attention. For many his possible release is confusing as he was ...
National cohesion and intergovernmental relations in South Africa
(JUTA, 2016)
The creation of provinces in 1994 gave effect to the grand compromise of the
1993 negotiations, but also raised fears about the deleterious consequences
they could hold for national cohesion. A first concern was that ...
Women in detention in Africa: A review of the literature
(Routledge, 2016)
Women in prison in Africa experience compounded discrimination due to gender and poverty. Structural inequality results in women being poorly educated, having reduced access to economic resources and legal processes. Women ...