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How loud is too loud? Competing rights to religious freedom and property and the Muslim call to prayer (adhan or azan) in South Africa
(MPDI, 2021)
This article approaches the position of the call to prayer (adhan or azan) in South Africa
from the perspective of both legislation and case law. Although only an unamplified adhan has
religious status in Islam, Muslim ...
The Tunisian constitutional transition and debates: Islam, women and other actors in the wake of the post Jasmine revolution
(2020)
The Arab uprising in Tunisia, dubbed the Jasmine Revolution
began in 2010, protesting against unemployment, corruption,
injustice and the absence of basic freedoms. The Jasmine
Revolution ousted Ben Ali, the then president ...
The trial of civilians before courts martial in Uganda: Analysing the jurisprudence of Ugandan courts in the light of the drafting history of articles 129(1)(d) and 120(a) of the constitution
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2022)
Unlike in the constitutions of other African countries such as
Botswana and Lesotho, where the relationship between the High
Court and courts martial is stipulated, the Ugandan Constitution
1995 (the Constitution) does ...
Fact sheets on decentralisation in Africa
(UTS ePRESS, 2022)
A growing number of African countries are considering or implementing reforms that include forms of decentralisation. At times, these reforms are underpinned by (recent) constitutional change, as in Mozambique (2018), ...
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 ...
South Africa: Homosexual Muslims in South Africa: Some legal implications, including constitutional, marriage and succession’
(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 ...