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The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 and the ways in which the commission of fronting practices affects the achievement of its objective
(Institute for Democracy, Governance, Peace and Development in Africa, 2020)
The Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 53 of 2003 is one of the statutes enacted to promote
the right to equality, which is enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the Republic of South
Africa. It ...
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 ...
Part two: Debunking prevailing scholarly views pertaining to the apostasy of alleged descendants of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
(UIN Sunan Kalijaga, 2020)
This paper is the second part of the two articles that discuss the controversy
over the conversion of religion in the family of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar
after being exiled in South Africa during the Dutch colonial period ...
Evaluating the jurisprudence of the African Commission on evidence obtained through human rights violations
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
The normative framework of the African Commission, which regulates the
admission of evidence obtained through human rights violations, is largely
based on a number of instruments. These include the Tunisian Resolution,
the ...
The right to return to one's country in Africa: Article 12(2) of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
(Scielo South Africa, 2021)
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic many African countries barred people, including citizens and foreign nationals, from entering or leaving their territories. This was the case although article 12(2) of the African ...
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 ...