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Decentralisation and Constitutionalism in Africa: Concepts, Conflicts and Challenges
(Fourth Stellenbosch annual seminar on constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA), 2016-09-07)
A central quest in post-Cold War Africa has been to bring the Leviathan – the untrammelled
ruler – to heel through constitutionalism, and, to a lesser extent, also decentralisation.
1 The
unbridled power of the imperial ...
Overview of the role-players in the investigation, prevention and enforcement of market-abuse provisions in South Africa
(Nelson Mandela university, 2013)
This article analyses the role and effectiveness of selected key role-players primarily dealing with the investigation, prevention and enforcement of the market abuse prohibition in South Africa in order to increase awareness ...
Message from the Deputy Vice Chancellor
(SADJ - South African Dental Journal, 2018)
The 40th-anniversary celebration of the Faculty of Dentistry comes at a time when the faculty has made huge inroads in the profession, as well as in oral health care in South Africa and on the continent. Besides being the ...
The environment and the Sustainable Development Goals: ‘We are on a road to nowhere
(Edward Elgar, 2018)
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) collectively embody the global stance on the economic, social and environmental actions needed to achieve sustainable development. With reference to the environmental component ...
The convention on the rights of the child, migration, and Australia: Repositioning the convention from being a ‘wish list’ to a ‘to do list’ the 2018 Australian human rights institute annual lecture
(Routledge, 2019)
I was not terribly sure how many people I could reasonably expect for this lecture, especially since the former Prime Minister, the Hon. Tony Abbort, has said that Australians are sick of being lectured to by the United ...
State formation after civil war: Local government in national peace transitions
(Taylor & Francis group, 2016)
State formation after civil war offers a new model for studying the formation of the state in a national peace transition as an integrated national phenomenon. Current models of peacebuilding and state building limit that ...
The language of western homogeneity: A rose by any other name is a potential lawsuit
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)
It has sometimes been stated that international legislation favours the developed nations that create it to the detriment of the developing nations who must abide by it. This paper shall pose this question with regard to ...
Accountability and the right to food: A comparative study of India and South Africa
(Food Security SA Working Paper Series, 2018)
It remains a great source of concern that, as richly endowed as the world is, each day millions of people go to sleep hungry and almost 870 million people, particularly in developing countries, are chronically undernourished. ...
The prosecution of incitement to genocide in South Africa
(North-West University, 2013)
The phenomenon of collective violence is complex and, as yet, not wholly understood. This notwithstanding, the incidence of collective violence is not entirely unpredictable. This is especially true of one particularly ...
The Ugandan Customary Marriage (Registration) Act: a comment
(University of Florida, 2013)
Different marriages in Uganda are govemed by different pieces of
legislation. For example, church or civil marriages are govemed by the
Marriage Act (1904),' which is in the process of being amended.^ Muslim
marriages ...