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Second chamber as a site of legislative intergovernmental relations: An African federation in comparative perspective
(Routledge, 2021)
South Africa, a country that does not recognize itself as a federation, has
established a second chamber that is probably ideal for legislative
intergovernmental relations. The National Council of Provinces is ...
Aspects of Dutch Colonial family law related to the Indonesian Rajah of Tambora's exile at the Cape
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)
'As far as family law is concerned, we in South Africa have ... every kind of family ... This is the result of ... history ... Our families are suffused with history, as family law is suffused with history, culture, belief ...
The rise of corruption in Ethiopia: Is a lack of constitutionalism to blame?
(Oxford, 2020)
In 2001, a political division arose within the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF)1
, arguably the
core the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the ruling party and a
coalition of four ethnic-based ...
A Life in Human Rights: A Conversation with Dennis Davis’ London Review of International Law
(Oxford University Press, 2021)
Dennis Davis is Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court, and Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town. In this wide-ranging conversation with Tor Krever, he ...
Lobbying against democracy
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This essay seeks to excavate the anti-democratic propensities of corporate lobbying. It
begins by considering the nature of lobbying and then attempts to comprehend the
relationship between corporate lobbying and democracy ...
Tanzania’s post-independence anti-corruption efforts: Examining the prevention and combatting of corruption bureau’s (pccb) role during Magufuli’s regime
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
During the five years of John Magufuli’s presidency, Tanzania’s anti-corruption efforts yielded significant improvements. This improved performance was associated mainly with the President’s personal anti-corruption stance. ...
An evaluation of the adequacy of the African charter on the rights of the child concerning economic crimes in armed conflict
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Statistics indicate that at least one in every four African children lives in a conflict zone. Six of the ten worst countries for children to grow up in, or live in, are in Africa: the Central African Republic, the Democratic ...
Overcoming the past and shaping the future: The quest for relevance in teaching and researching public administration in Africa
(Springer, 2021)
The status of teaching and research on public administration in Africa countries, in many respects, remains a vestige of the colonial era and this is reflected in the epistemologies that underpin the design of the curricula ...
Dirty money as legal fees in Namibia and Zimbabwe: are lawyers laundering proceeds of crime?
(Emerald, 2020)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the contentious issue whether lawyers become launderers
when they accept dirty money as legal fees. Lawyers represent criminal defendants who may wish to pay for
their legal fees ...