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The Arab Spring – A brief view of Morocco’s February 20 movement and effects
(International Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Studies, 2020)
: Since 2011, Morocco has been engaged in a series of political, constitutional and institutional
reforms, including a wider respect for human rights. The debates and changes can be attributed to the unprecedented organised ...
Analysis of the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case
(Law Society of South Africa, 2020)
The Western Cape Division of the High Court in Cape Town handed down the judgment in the Women’s Legal Centre Trust case on 31 August 2018. It declared that the state is obliged to respect, protect, promote and fulfil the ...
Demystifying the Mahr found in Muslim marriages
(Without Prejudice, 2020)
One of the most common characteristics of an Islamic marriage is that it commences with a proposal referred to as ijba or rishta. Although the observance of a formal proposal is not strictly a requirement found in traditional ...
Africa, prisons and COVID-19
(Oxford University Press, 2020)
Africa’s prisons are a long-standing concern for rights defenders given the prevalence
of rights abuses, overcrowding, poor conditions of detention and the extent to which
the criminal justice system is used to target ...
Limitations on the right to freedom of testation
(Sabinet, 2020)
Freedom of testation is a basic right in terms of the South African law of succession and enables a testator (or testatrix) to bequeath assets in a will as they please. The freedom is not completely unrestricted. Limitations ...
Can Covid-19 be classified as Force Majeure in South Africa?
(Without Prejudice, 2020)
The 23rd of March will forever be etched in the minds of South Africans. The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a 21-day national lockdown effective from midnight on Thursday, 26 March ...
A cryptocurrency wallet: Is it “relevant material” for tax administration purposes?
(Siber Ink, 2020)
This article shows that wallets storing cryptocurrency are intangible property
so that they ought to qualify as a ‘thing’ within the meaning of this term in
section 1 of the Tax Administration Act 28 of 2011, read with ...
The Canadian contribution to a comparative law of secession: Legacies of the Quebec secession reference
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Reference Re Secession of Quebec (hereinafter the Reference) is a very good reason to put together a volume on “one of Canada’s most well-known legal exports” (p. 5). But there ...
From regulations to courts: an evaluation of the inclusive and exclusive criteria on children with co-caregivers in the era of Covid-19
(Sabinet, 2020)
At the time of writing, more than 5.2 million persons have been infected by Covid-19, leading
to 340,000 deaths, while about 2.2 million people have recovered (WHO 2020). South Africa
has reported 23,000 infections and ...
Tax collapse and the post-covid economy
(Sabinet, 2020)
The serious economic
impact of the lockdown
policy response to the
Covid-19 pandemic
has, understandably,
generated substantial policy
debate in the media and academia.
Conspicuously absent from
most of these ...