Faculty of Law: Recent submissions
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Perfecting a general notarial bond: you can't have your cake and eat it! ABSA bank limited v go on supermarket (Pty) limited (the spar group limited intervening) (9442/2022) [2022] zagpjhc 173 (24 March 2022)
(Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (PELJ), 2023)A general notarial bond registered over movable property grants the bondholder a real security right enforceable against third parties only if the bond has been perfected by transferring possession of the property to the ... -
Covid-19 pandemic, a war to win: Assessing its impact on the domestic work sector in Nigeria
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)This article examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work conditions of domestic workers in Nigeria. We use four indi-cators – earnings, access to social protection, working conditions and labour protections ... -
Domestic work and platformisation in India and South Africa: A look at enablers and barriers
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)Globally, the domestic work sector is both highly informal and highly feminised. This article will compile learnings from the domestic work sector in two countries of the Global South — India and South Africa — concerning ... -
International regulation of platform labor: A proposal for action
(Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, 2021)Platform-mediated work is a source of livelihood for millions of workers worldwide. However, because platforms typically classify workers as ‘independent contractors’, those workers are generally excluded from the scope ... -
The impact of socio-legal inequality on women in the Nigerian domestic work sector
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This article examines the impact of socio-legal inequality on the work conditions of female domestic workers in Nigeria. Domestic work is an important aspect of productive labour and an indispensable factor that contributes ... -
Origins, relevance and prospects of federalism and decentralization in the horn of Africa
(2022)The Horn of Africa is the most conflict-ridden region in the African continent. Both inter-and intra-state conflicts have dominated the region. In a bid to check intra-state conflicts and accommodate ethno-national and ... -
Horizontality and housing rights protection against private evictions from a European and South African perspective
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)In the recent decision of fjm v. the United Kingdom, the ECtHR made a decision on the required protection against private evictions that threatens to water-down the protection of housing rights offered by the echr. This ... -
Editorial: Towards meaningful action against proliferation financing
(Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2023)Background: The financial action task force (FATF) standards are designed to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing. Threats of Russian employment of nuclear weapons in its conflict with ... -
Resource rents, savings behavior, and scenarios of economic development
(Elsevier Ltd, 2023)The paper revisits the nexus between natural resources and economic growth from the lens of development economics. It augments the traditional dual-sector economy model by the assumption that in addition to capitalists, ... -
From physical to online spaces in the age of the #FeesMustFall protests: A critical Interpretative synthesis of writing centres in emergency situations
(Sabinet African Journals, 2019)Writing centres play a vital role in guiding students in their academic writing. Central to this role is their physical location at tertiary institutions, where students usually walk in and schedule appointments with ... -
From physical to online spaces in the age of the #FeesMustFall protests: a critical Interpretative Synthesis of writing centres in emergency situations
(Sabinet African Journals, 2019)Writing centres play a vital role in guiding students in their academic writing. Central to this role is their physical location at tertiary institutions, where students usually walk in and schedule appointments with ... -
A right to a fair trial in Uganda’s Judicature (Visual Audio Link) Rules: Embracing the challenges in the era of Covid-19
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)The application of the Uganda Judicature (Visual-Audio Link) Rules does not contextualise the complete protection of an accused’s right to a fair trial during emergencies. A contextualisation of the right to a fair trial ... -
The political and cultural inclusion of intra-state ethnic minorities in Ethiopia: The case of the Qimant of Amhara state
(Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 2023)Conflicts between the Qimant community – an intrastate minority ethnic group endogenous to Amhara state in the Ethiopian federation – and the state’s special police forces have caused hundreds of deaths and the internal ... -
Perspectives on local government’s place in federal systems and central–local relations
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2022)To expand on the themes identified by Tomas Hachard’s paper Capacity, voice and opportunity: advancing municipal engagement in Canadian federal relations, the Journal commissioned six personal ‘perspectives’ from a diverse ... -
Private prosecution in Nigeria under the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Private prosecutions have been part of the Nigerian legal system for a long time. In 2015, the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) came into force. The ACJA provides for, inter alia, circumstances in which a ... -
Deliberate delays in offering abortion to pregnant women with fetal anomalies after 24 weeks' gestation at a centre in South Africa
(Wiley, 2023)South Africa has an abortion law which codifies the broad themes of reproductiverights set out in the Constitution of South Africa, other laws and national guidelines.Certain wording of the conditions in the Choice Act for ... -
The power of prosecutorial heads to intervene in private prosecutions in commonwealth countries
(Loyola College of Social Sciences, 2022)In most countries public prosecutors are responsible for prosecuting offences. In Commonwealth countries, public prosecutors are headed by Directors of Public Prosecution (DPP), Prosecutors General (PG) or Attorneys-General ... -
Multilevel Governance and Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Learning from the Four First Waves
(MDPI, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impose a heavy burden on people around the world. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has also been affected. The objective of this study was to explore national policy responses ... -
Tax Administration Act: Fulfilling human rights through efficient and effective tax administration
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)The Constitution, 1996 embodies the ideals bonding South Africans who must cohere and transcend their divisions to change the condition of peoples’ lives by reconstructing a South African society dogged by corruption ... -
Dirty money as legal fees in Namibia and Zimbabwe: are lawyers laundering proceeds of crime?
(Emerald, 2020)The purpose of this paper is to explore the contentious issue whether lawyers become launderers when they accept dirty money as legal fees. Lawyers represent criminal defendants who may wish to pay for their legal fees ...
