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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-07)The June 2023 elections in Sierra Leone occurred against the backdrop of amendments to the Public Elections Act (pea), the enactment of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act (gewe), and a switch from the First ...
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(Routledge, 2016-06)It is now widely recognised that the unregulated processing of personal information has had a significant impact on key human rights like privacy, dignity, integrity, personality and autonomy. However, while other regions ...
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(Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2023)The year 2021 witnessed a global “coup pandemic”, with the highest number of successful overthrows of government in the past twenty years. Many of them – in Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan – occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...
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Clarifying jus cogens, erga omnes and the place of third-party countermeasures in international law (University of South Africa, 2024-04)There is substantial support in literature of the idea that all norms of jus cogens are erga omnes, in that they produce obligations applicable towards all states. However, not all obligations erga omnes invariably flow ...
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(Routledge, 2021)One of Africa’s major challenges in the last three decades has been the need to restore confidence in the judiciary. During the long years of dictatorial rule, judges were stripped of their independence and appointed or ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)The need to act swiftly in times of emergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)Constitution-building is a delicate and intricate process which requires ample reflection and careful choices. African constitution-builders and politicians have since the beginning of the 1990s embarked on a process of ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2018-06)The prominent place given to decentralization in the design of post-1990 African constitutions has been likened to a silent revolution. This is not surprising, for sharing power has been anathema to post-independence African ...
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(Routledge, 2018)The issue of constitutional literacy has attracted very little attention in scholarship on constitutionalism in Africa. This is not surprising, because the early constitutions were virtually imposed by the departing colonial ...
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(North West University, Faculty of Law, 2015)As this is a nation riddled with a history of inequality, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a sign-post to what one hopes is an end destination of inclusivity. Post-1994 the new democratic government faced ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This article critically examines the jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission) on the right to development (RTD). Notwithstanding the controversy over the RTD, it is ...
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(Sweet and Maxwell, 2022-06)It had been assumed that the advances in digital information technology and its increasing availability to ordinary Africans would facilitate broader public participation in decision-making and provide ordinary citizens ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-02)Until fairly recently, the issue of constitutional implementation has surprisingly received little attention both in constitutional theory and practice. Yet it is a crucial aspect of constitutional effectiveness. Without ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2024)In 2013 Zimbabwe adopted a gender quota system for the National Assembly. However, the quota system is set at 30 per cent, contrary to international law obligations domesticated under section 17 of the 2013 Zimbabwean ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2020)No abstract available.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)Serious efforts to entrench the rule of law in Africa came with the socalled third wave of democratisation in the 1990s. This democratic revival raised hopes of a new era of governance guided by the basic principles of ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-03)It is generally recognised that election management bodies (EMBs) constitute one of the most important institutions needed to sustain Africa‟s fledgling transition to democratic and constitutional governance. They are ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2022-02)The contention of this article is that there is a need to debunk the myth that the diversity of Africa's inherited legal systems means that the continent has little to contribute to the global legal dialogue. For Africa ...
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Gender equality in African customary law : has the male ultimogeniture rule any future in Botswana? (Cambridge University Press, 2014-09)The actual and perceived conflicts between customary law and human rights law, especially in issues dealing with gender equality, have remained a major challenge in Africa. Some of these conflicts are further complicated ...
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