Browsing Book and Book Chapters (Faculty of Law) by Title
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South Africa: Homosexual Muslims in South Africa: Some legal implications, including constitutional, marriage and succession’
(Intersentia, 2022)This chapter focuses on the succession rights and testamentary freedom of male (gay) and female (lesbian) homosexuals in Islam and in South Africa. It highlights that, although the practice of male homosexuality and same-sex ... -
South Africa: Indian Law
(Oxford University Press, 2009)The South African legal system comprises common law (Roman-Dutch and English law developed through case law) legislation and (mainly African) customary law with elements of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and Zoroastrian (Parsi) ... -
South Africa: Surfing towards centralisation on the Covid-19 wave
(Routledge, 2021)When the Covid-19 pandemic reached its shores between February and March 2020, South Africa was already in a vulnerable situation – socially, economically, and politically. Although the country’s population, estimated ... -
Southern African perspectives on banning corporal punishment – a comparison of Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe
(Brill Nijhoff, 2019)This chapter reviews recent judicial and legislative developments concerning steps towards – and against – the abolition of corporal punishment in four closely connected southern African jurisdictions: South Africa, ... -
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 ... -
Subnational constitutionalism in Ethiopia : Constitutional déjà vu
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter provides a concise account of the nature, scope and relevance of state constitutions in Ethiopia. The major armed forces that challenged state policy were the Eritrean liberation fronts that launched armed ... -
Thirty years of the CRC in Africa
(Routledge, 2021)This chapter reviews 30 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Africa. It notes that there has been significant upgrading and modernisation of child law throughout the continent, notably in child protection ... -
Towards a new juvenile justice system in Namibia
(Intersentia, 2019)Namibia ’ s moves towards developing a new juvenile justice system for children in conflict commenced a quarter of a century ago. A country which emerged from the ravages of apartheid colonisation and a bloody civil war ... -
The withering away of politically salient territorial cleavages in South Africa and the emergence of watermark ethnic Federalism
(Oxford University Press, 2019)The policy of apartheid was an attempt to territorialize the white/black racial cleavage through the creation of bantustans, confining black political aspirations to 13 percent of the country, while the remainder of the ... -
Women, gender and child marriage: Sub-Saharan Africa, overview
(Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, 2006)This entry provides an overview of early marriage of girls under the age of 18 from a human rights and gender perspective. It examines international conventions relating to child marriage and critiques the application of ...