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An Analysis of the Human Rights and Gender consequences of the New South African Constitution and Bill of Rights with regards to the recognition and implementation of Muslim Personal Law
(The University of the Western Cape, 1996)
Prior to the new constitutional dispensation in South Africa all women had identities of race and gender imposed on them. With a new dispensation in place Muslim women, however, still have to deal with identities attributed ...
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 ...
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 ...
A missing link in the Traditional Courts Bill 2017 evidence obtained through human rights violations
(ISS & the University of Cape Town, 2018)
The issue of admission of evidence obtained through human rights violations is central to a criminal
justice system as a mechanism through which to prevent overzealous prosecution by the state and
ensure protection of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...