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The powers of local government in decentralized systems of government: Managing the 'curse of common competencies'
(Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, 2005)
The issues and problems flowing from common competencies are shared by
many, if not all, decentralised and federal systems; they are a feature arising
from the division of powers between two levels of government. The ...
District-local municipal relations: The challenges to cooperative government
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Outside of metropolitan areas, local government is shared by district and local municipalities; the 47 district municipalities and 231 local municipalities share legislative and administrative powers over the same geographical ...
Alternative sentencing in South Africa: an update
(Institute for Security Studies, 2005)
With South Africa’s ever growing prison population, the hope is often expressed that non-custodial sentencing options or ‘alternative sentencing’ will relieve the overcrowding and its associated ills. The current situation ...
A Review of the Judicial Inspectorate of Prisons of South
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
Independent prison inspectorates and the oversight of prisons by laymen are designed to contribute to improving prison conditions and protecting the human rights of prisoners. The South African model, the Judicial Inspectorate ...
Policy and practice in South African prisons: an update
(Law, Democracy & Development, 2005)
In June 2003, the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI) released a policy review concerning major developments in penal policy in South Africa since the advent of constitutionalism in 1994. This paper was widely ...
The right to health and the nature of The right to health and the nature of socio-economic rights obligations under the African Charter The Purohit case
(ESR Review : Economic and Social Rights in South Africa, 2005)
The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Charter) guarantees a broad range of economic, social and cultural rights (socio-economic rights) as well as civil and political rights.
Poverty measurement blues: Some reflections on the space for understanding ‘chronic’ and ‘structural’ poverty in South Africa
(Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2005)
This paper explores the challenge of understanding chronic and structural poverty in South Africa, and questions the dominance of the econometric imaginary in present-day development and poverty studies. It argues that ...
Livelihoods and sharing: Trends in a Lesotho village, 1976–2004
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
In 2004 I was fortunate enough to be able
to return to Ha Tumahole, the village
in Lesotho where I undertook research
on farming and livelihoods in 1976–77,
and spend four weeks learning about what
had changed in ...
Ethics and mono-disciplinarity: positivism, informed consent and informed participation
(Elsevier, 2005)
There are a number of pressures on researchers in academia and industry to behave unethically or compromise their ethical standards, for instance in order to obtain funding or publish frequently. In this paper a case study ...
Land and resources in a transfrontier setting
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2005)
Amongst the many initiatives in legislative and policy change affecting land and common property resource management
in Southern Africa today, transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) seem particularly prominent because ...