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The Alexandra township de-densification project during the Covid-19 crisis: Challenges and potential lessons
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In response to the Covid-19 (hereafter referred to as ‘virus’) pandemic, the South Africa government established different measures to try to slow down the spread of the virus. One of the strategies was to focus on population ...
The symbiosis between the criminalisation of sex work and corrupt policing in sex work in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Despite existing studies that prove the prevalence of corrupt policing of sex work in South Africa, corruption continues to be a common feature of sex workers’ experiences with police officers. In this article, it is argued ...
From food to cash relief: How prepared are Uganda’s anti-corruption agencies to counter corruption in Covid-19 cash transfers?
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
In July 2021, Uganda commenced the disbursement of telephonic cash transfers to the vulnerable urban poor, most adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, marking a policy shift from food relief to cash transfers to the ...
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 ...
An exploratory analysis of central bank digital currencies — some considerations
(SA mercantile law journal, 2022)
The history of central banking began with payment services. Ever since then, payment-related innovation has always been an integral part of
central banking (BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastruc- tures and Markets ...
Aspects of Dutch colonial family law related to the Indonesian rajah of Tambora’s exile at the cape
(Intersentia, 2020)
The Muslims who arrived at the Cape during the first period of Dutch colonisation in the seventeenth century hailed from different geographical locations, were of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds and, more ...
The new framework planned for the legal recognition and regulation of Muslim marriages in a secular South Africa: From litigation to law reform
(Ahkam Journal, 2022)
Muslims, who originate from the East Indies and the Indian subcontinent, have a history in South Africa dating back more than three centuries. Attempts by South African Muslims to have their Muslim marriages (nikāḥs) ...
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 ...
Constitutionalism and electoral authoritarianism in Ethiopia: From EPRDF to EPP
(Oxford University, 2020)
Ethiopia has had little experience of democratic political systems. For centuries it
was a monarchy, ruled by successive emperors who traced their political authority
to divine sources as opposed to the people.1 Although ...