Browsing Faculty of Law by Subject "Zimbabwe"
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Barriers to access to contraceptives for adolescent girls in rural Zimbabwe as a human rights challenge
(Routledge, 2021)Approximately 214 million women in developing countries between ages 15 and 49 have an unmet need for contraception.1 In Zimbabwe, 12% of unmarried adolescent girls have an unmet need for contraception. Contraceptive use ... -
The Constitutional Court of South Africa: Reinforcing an hourglass system of multi-level government
(University of Toronto Press, 2017)“The supremacy of the constitution and the rule of law” are two foundational values of South Africa’s 1996 Constitution (s. 1(c)). An independent judiciary is thus set to play a major role in interpreting and enforcing ... -
Decentralization in Africa and the resilience of traditional authorities: Evaluating Zimbabwe’s track record
(Regional and Federal Studies, 2015)This paper looks at one of the most important endogenous factors influencing the workings of decentralization in Zimbabwe. Successive waves of formal institutional change that took place during Zimbabwe’s colonial and ... -
Dirty money as legal fees in Namibia and Zimbabwe: are lawyers laundering proceeds of crime?
(Emarald Publishing, 2020)Purpose – 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 ... -
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 ... -
Implementing results-based management systems in Zimbabwe: Context and implications for the public sector
(International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2012)The article focuses on the introduction of the new concept of results-based management (RBM) in Zimbabwe’s public sector. The major tenets of RBM are explored and examined against traditional implementation-focused public ... -
Intergovernmental planning and budgeting in Zimbabwe: Learning the lessons of the past
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2017)In Zimbabwe, the Prime Minister’s Directives on Decentralisation and Development of 1984 and 1985, together with the Provincial Council and Administration Act 1985, constitute the foundation for postindependence attempts ... -
Local government in the 2013 constitution of Zimbabwe: Defining the boundaries of local autonomy
(Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2017-10-06)The 2013 Constitution of Zimbabwe recognises local government as the lowest tier of government in a three tier arrangement. Thus, local government, composed by urban and rural local authorities, now owes its existence ... -
Local government reform in Zimbabwe: A policy dialogue
(Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape, 2010)This publication is the result of a collaborative research project of South African and Zimbabwean academics and practitioners active in the field of local government. On 3-4 November 2009 the Community Law Centre hosted ... -
Local government reform in Zimbabwe: A policy dialogue
(Community Law Centre, University Western Cape, 2010)On 3-4 November 2009 the Community Law Centre hosted a seminar entitled “Policy Dialogue on the Future of Local Government in Zimbabwe”. A diverse spectrum of local government practitioners was assembled to discuss ... -
Ministerial directives to local government in Zimbabwe: top-down governance in a decentralized constitution
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)Urban and rural local authorities constitute the lowest tier of Zimbabwe's multilevel system of government. These local governments have a constitutional "right to govern" that must be exercised within the constitutional, ... -
Multiparty democracy in Zimbabwe after the adoption of the 2013 constitution
(Oxford University Press, 2021)Zimbabwe adopted a new Constitution in 2013 which, among other objectives, sought to give greater legitimacy to multiparty democracy. This Constitution strengthens the role of an independent electoral commission, entrenches ... -
The new Zimbabwean government’s war on corruption: A lesson for anti-corruption and transitional justice scholars and practitioners?
(University of Western Cape, 2019)There is ample academic writing and practical examples extending the principles of transitional justice to corruption. However, very little has been written on how a society’s existing anti-corruption mechanisms may be ... -
One step forward, two steps back: A review of Mushoriwa v City of Harare in view of Zimbabwe’s constitutional socio-economic rights
(African Human Rights Law Journal, 2021)In 2013 Zimbabwe enacted a new Constitution, introducing a raft of new changes, among them, the introduction of constitutional socio-economic rights. Not soon thereafter socio-economic rights were tested in the case of ... -
Private prosecutions in Zimbabwe Victim participation in the criminal justice system
(Creative Commons, 2016)Two recent developments have changed the face of private prosecutions in Zimbabwe. Firstly, the prosecutor general had to decide: (1) whether private companies may institute private prosecutions; and (2) whether the ... -
Private prosecutions in Zimbabwe: Victim participation in the criminal justice system
(Institute for Security Studies (ISS), 2016)Two recent developments have changed the face of private prosecutions in Zimbabwe. Firstly, the prosecutorgeneral had to decide: (1) whether private companies may institute private prosecutions; and (2) whether ... -
The role of traditional leaders in Zimbabwe: are they still relevant?
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)As in many other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the institution of traditional leadership has always been central to the governance of communities in Zimbabwe. Traditional authorities take various forms and shapes in many ... -
Sector wide approach in health policy response and framework in Zimbabwe
(Journal of Public Administration and Governance, 2012)The discourse is on the Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) in health, a policy reform intervention by the World Health Organization, and focuses on Zimbabwe’s response, and the subsequent health policy framework. A SWAp is a ... -
Socio-economic rights in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe
(Dullah Omar Institute, 2018)From 1980 to 2017, Robert Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe through a regime that posed as ‘democratic’ but which for all intents and purposes was a dictatorship. The power of the government stemmed not from the will of the people ... -
Socio-economic rights in Zimbabwe: Trends and emerging jurisprudence
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2017)In a country such as Zimbabwe where many are deprived of opportunities and resources owing, in part, to injustices of the past, socio-economic rights are of the outmost importance. As a result, the new Constitution ...