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    • South Africa 

      Moosa, Najma (ASSER Press, 2017)
      This chapter on South Africa critically analyses the evolution of the concept of the best interests of the child, and specifically how it pertains to the fields of care (custody), contact (access), guardianship and maintenance ...

    • South Africa and the COVID-19 vaccine 

      Fielding, Burtram C (José Frantz, 2021)
      Scientists, public health experts and politicians have been telling us that, to stop Covid-19, we need to embark on a massive vaccine rollout. But do we really need to vaccinate more than 70% of our population to stop ...

    • South Africa's competing obligations in relation to international crimes - the Zimbabwe Torture Docket case 

      Chenwi, Lilian (Constitutional Court Review, 2015)
      The need to end impunity for international crimes is largely recognised by the international community. Accordingly, significant obligations have been imposed, by both conventional (treaty) and customary international law, ...

    • South Africa's evolving jurisprudence on socio-economic rights: An effective tool in challenging poverty 

      Sandra, Liebenberg (Law, Democracy & Development, 2002)
      The drafters of the Constitution clearly envisaged a far-reaching role for it in the transformation of post-apartheid society.' Among the key aims of the Constitution is to "improve the quality of life of all citizens and ...

    • South Africa's Heart of Darkness: Sex crimes and child offenders: some trends 

      Redpath, Jean (South African Crime Quarterly, 2003)
      It is a source of great concern that the number of sexual offences committed by children is apparently on the increase. Given that the Child Justice Bill provides for a separate criminal justice process for children, and ...

    • South Africa's May 1968: decolonising institutions and minds 

      Becker, Heike (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      Throughout 2015 students at South African universities rose up in a mass revolt. They made their voices heard from their campuses, from the streets, from the grounds of Parliament in Cape Town, and the lawns of the Union ...

    • South Africa's space programme - Past, present, future 

      Gottschalk, Keith (Routledge, 2010)
      This article introduces and analyses South Africa’s space programme. This divides into three phases. First was the age of amateurs 1947-1962. Second, between 1963-1993, South Africa’s apartheid ancien regime started ...

    • South Africa, the arts and youth in conflict with the law 

      Sloth-Nielsen, Julia; Woodward, Sheila C.; Mathiti, Vuyisile (Intellect, 2007)
      This paper describes the DIME (Diversion into Music Education) youth intervention program that originated in South Africa in 2001. DIME offers instruction in African marimba and djembe bands to juvenile offenders. Conceived ...

    • The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread 

      Saunders, Christopher (University of Cape Town) (Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      That South Africa invaded Angola in 1975, in an abortive attempt to prevent a Marxist government coming to power there, and that the South African Defence Force then repeatedly attacked Angola from 1978, is relatively well ...

    • South Africa: anthropology or anthropologies? 

      Becker, Heike; Spiegel, Andrew D. (American Anthropological Association, 2015)
      A direct result of South Africa’s specific history has been the extraordinary significance of its contested, if not conflicting, political and ideological positions on anthropology’s South African trajectories. This was ...

    • South Africa: Challenges and successes of the COVID-19 lockdown 

      Stiegler, Nancy; Bouchard, Jean Pierre (Elsevier, 2020)
      At the beginning of March 2020, South Africa (59 million inhabitants) was hit by the pandemic of COVID-19 and soon became the most affected country in Africa by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. From one single case on March 5th, the ...

    • South Africa: Homosexual Muslims in South Africa: Some legal implications, including constitutional, marriage and succession’ 

      Moosa, Najma; America, Zaahirah (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 

      Moosa, Najma (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 

      Steytler, Nico; de Visser, Jaap; Chigwata, Tinashe (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 ...

    • South Africa: Urban transformation 

      Williams, John J. (Elsevier, 2000)
      This paper discusses transformation as a multi-dimensional concept to effect social change in South African society in the post-apartheid era. The policy implications of such a variegated understanding of social change ...

    • The South African Astronomical Observatory: a treasure house of history and biodiversity 

      Mustart, Penny; Maneveldt, Gavin (Botanical Society of South Africa, 2010)
      Traces the history of the Royal Observatory Cape of Good Hope, today known as the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO). Describes the flora and its management.

    • South African child deaths 1990-2011: have HIV services reversed the trend enough to meet Millennium Development Goal 4? 

      Kerber, Kate J.; Lawn, Joy E.; Sanders, David; Jackson, Debra; Johnson, Leigh F.; Maye, Mary; Dorrington, Rob E.; Phillips, Heston; Bradshaw, Debbie; Nannan, Nadine; Msemburi, William; Oestergaard, Mikkel Z.; Walker, Neff P. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013)
      OBJECTIVE: To analyse trends in under-five mortality rate in South Africa (1990–2011), particularly the contribution of AIDS deaths. METHODS: Three nationally used models for estimating AIDS deaths in children ...

    • South African consumers’ perceptions of front-of-package warning labels on unhealthy foods and drinks 

      Bopape, Makoma; Taillie, Lindsey Smith; Swart, Rina (Public Library of Science, 2021)
      Front-of-package labeling (FOPL) is a policy tool that helps consumers to make informed food choices. South Africa has not yet implemented this labeling system. The aim of this study was therefore to explore adult South ...

    • The South African dental schools’ educational environment: Final year students’ perceptions at four dental schools 

      Bhayat, Ahmed; Barrie, Robert; Motloba, Pagollang; Yengopal, Veerasamy (JCDR Publishing, 2018)
      Introduction: The Educational Environment (EE) can play a major role in the success and progress of students and their studies. The EE includes the infrastructure, clinical activities, the atmosphere created by staff and ...

    • South African discourse on the Triune God: Some reflections 

      Conradie, Ernst M. (AOSIS, 2019)
      This contribution offers a critical rejoinder with regard to 12 articles submitted for publication in HTS Theological Studies ‘to stimulate a discussion on the Holy Trinity for the 21st century within the South African ...