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The Customary Anatomy of the Traditional Governance of the Bafokeng Traditional Community: The Implications of the Constitutional Recognition of Hereditary Headmanship
(2017-10-18)
The institution of the hereditary headmanship of the Bafokeng traditional community in the North West Province, South Africa has been in existence from time immemorial. It survived the calamities and vicissitudes of both ...
Pursuing the Right to an Effective Remedy for Human Rights Violation(s) In Cameroon: The Need for Legislative Reform
(2017-12-19)
Undoubtedly, global and regional human rights instruments clearly entrench the right to an effective remedy for a human rights violation. The substantive nature of the right to an effective remedy makes it relevant to the ...
Oral Law in Litigation in South Africa: An Evidential Nightmare?
(2017-10-26)
In the past, customary law has been applied rather haphazardly in the courts. Its inherent adaptive flexibility and indeterminate nature created confusion in a court system ill-equipped to deal with litigation dealing with ...
A Fresh Perspective on Historical Sexual Abuse: The Case of Hewitt v S 2017 1 SACR 309 (SCA)
(2017-12-18)
Sexual crimes continues to be a scourge in our society. It is therefore not surprising that the prevention and criminalisation of sexual crimes in South Africa has received a large amount of attention over the last few ...
Werknemers as lasgewende ouers in surrogasie-aangeleenthede: die geboorte van nuwe verlof-behoeftes in Suid-Afrika
(2017)
Commissioning parents, in terms of a surrogacy agreement, have the same parental obligations towards their child as traditional parents. Yet, despite the legitimising of surrogacy in the Children’s Act 38 of 2005, no ...
Competing preferent community prospecting rights : a nonchalant custodian?
(2017)
Traditional communities that were precluded from the benefits and financial rewards of exploitation of the mineral resources of South Africa are afforded the opportunity to lodge an application with the Department of Mineral ...
Constitutional interpretation in the so-called 'hard cases': Revisiting S v Makwanyane
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2017)
Grondwetlike interpretasie in sogenaamde 'moeilike sake' verg, in sekere gevalle, dat regters van subjektiewe maatstawe moet gebruik maak om definisie te verskaf aan grondwetlike regte en waardes. Dit beteken dat regters ...
Criminal procedure
(Juta, 2017)
Section 342A(1) of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 provides that a criminal court may conduct an investigation into delays in criminal proceedings. The section further provides for a number of factors that a court ...
Criminal procedure
(Juta, 2017)
In Mogale v Minister of Safety and Security 2016 (2) SACR 682 (GP) the high court had dismissed an application sought by the appellants for an order setting aside certain search warrants issued by different magistrates (at ...
ntrusion into the autonomy of South African local government: advancing the minority judgment in the Merafong City case
(Pretoria University Law Press, 2017)
Teen die agtergrond van die aard en wese van die Suid-Afrikaanse plaaslike regering wat na 1996 tot stand gekom het, is die saak van Merafong City Local Municipality v AngloGold Ashanti Ltd [2016] ZACC 35 een van die mees ...