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Insulating administrative decision-making relating to individual staff appointments from political meddling: Manana v King Sabata Dalindyebo Municipality
(Juta Law, 2012)
Introduction: The Local Government: Municipal Systems Act 32 of 2000 (hereafter 'the Municipal Systems Act') provides that the municipal manager is responsible for the appointment of staff, other than managers that report ...
A foreskin too far? Religious, medical or customary circumcision and the Children's Act 38 of 2005 in the context of HIV/AIDS
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This article analyses the legal framework surrounding male circumcision (infant and youth) in South Africa, having explained the requirements of international human rights law. Provincial legislation regulating traditional ...
Ten years of the South African prevention of organised crime act (1999–2009)
(Open Society Foundation for South Africa, 2010)
Organised crime2 is one of the main challenges that governments and intergovernmental
organisations3 are grappling with. Its history, consequences and different forms in South
Africa are well documented4 and fall outside ...
Faskh (divorce) and intestate succession in Islamic and South African law: impact of the watershed judgment in Hassam v Jacobs and the Muslim Marriages Bill
(Juta&Company, 2014)
This article deals with intestate succession against the background of the complex Islamic legal aspects of faskh and talaq as forms of divorce. It elaborates on the divergent views held by Islamic scholars and explains ...
Dissolution of a muslim marriage by divorce
(Juta, 2014)
Although Muslims first arrived in South Africa more than 350 years ago and two decades have passed since the advent of democracy, their religious marriages are currently not formally recognized in terms of the (common) ...
Muslim Marriage and Divorce in Sri Lanka: Aspects of the relevant jurisprudence
(The Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Legal Studies, 2016)
Muslims form 10 per cent of the Sri Lankan population. The country applies a mixed legal system. For many decades Muslim marriages and divorces have been governed by a separate piece of legislation. Courts in Sri Lanka ...
Islamic mode of estate distribution in South Africa
(Jordan Publishing LexisNexis, 2016)
It has been argued by some academics that the Islamic law of intestate succession discriminates against females due to its unequal distribution of shares in favour of males.' The general example used in this regard is when ...
Legal pluralism and the right to family life and the transfer of offenders who are nationals of African countries, within Africa to Africa
(Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
Globalisation has been accompanied by, inter alia, the movement of people from
their countries of nationality or citizenship to other countries in search of better
opportunities. Some of these people have been convicted ...