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Confronting the state of local government: the 2013 Constitutional Court decisions
(Juta, 2016)
In September 2014 the then Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Pravin Gordhan, divided municipalities into three groups: a third of the municipalities was carrying out their tasks adequately, a third ...
Guide to the UN Convention against torture in South Africa
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2008)
This publication is a guide to the UN Convention against Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT) for the South African context. The guide is furthermore aimed at civil society organisations ...
The changing face of life imprisonment in South Africa
(Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, 2008)
This article investigates the meaning and use of life imprisonment in South Africa in four major legal historical eras: life imprisonment at the time when the death penalty was still lawful in South Africa (including life ...
Unaccompanied and Separated Foreign Children in the Care System in the Western Cape – A Socio-Legal Study
(Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016)
This article reports on the findings of a study of foreign children accommodated in the care system in the Western Cape, based on fieldwork conducted in child and youth care centres. The objectives of the study were firstly ...
Children deprived of their liberty: protection from torture and ill treatment
(Tygerberg: Medical Research Council, 2012)
Children deprived of their liberty by the state are, as a result of state officials’ action or inaction, at the risk of death, torture, and ill treatment. Three types of places of detention are discussed, namely prisons, ...
Prisoners’ right of access to antiretroviral treatment
(ESR Review, 2006)
Prisoners are susceptible to a number of illness and diseases due, in part, to poor living conditions in prisons (e.g. overcrowding and poor nutrition), substance abuse and sexual violence (e.g. male rape). The rate of HIV ...
A maturing manifesto: The constitutionalisation of children’s rights in South African jurisprudence 2007-2012
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2013)
This article represents the next in a series of five-year overviews of children’s rights in the courts in South Africa. Using the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Welfare of Children as ...
Substantive equality and maternal mortality in Nigeria
(Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2012)
When women’s lives are cut short or incapacitated as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, the tragedy cascades. Children lose a parent. Spouses lose a partner. And societies lose productive contributors ... And as long as ...
The ILO Social Protection Floors Recommendation 202, and poverty reduction
(Development in Practice, 2015)
This article critically assesses the provisions of ILO Recommendation 202 on social protection floors with a view to ascertaining its efficacy for poverty reduction in poor regions. The article discusses the relevant ...
Juvenile justice review 1994-1995
(South African Journal of Criminal Justice, 1995)
This review of the state of juvenile justice in South Africa introduces a new section to this journal in which annual developments relating to law and policy in the field of juvenile justice will be examined. Juvenile ...