• Achieving equality and accessibility for persons with visual impairments: uncovering deficiencies in South African consumer protection and labelling legislation 

  Van den Berg, Michal Danielle (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-15)

  This thesis delves into the intricate landscape of product labelling legislation in South Africa, shedding light on its inherent inaccessibility concerning product labels and accompanying leaflets. By meticulously examining ...
• Neoliberal internationalism : intellectual roots, global manifestations, and South African realities 

  Pillay, Dillon (University of Pretoria, 2024-03-20)

  This study seeks to answer two broad questions: how did the long-termist thinking of key neoliberal thinkers help to shape the world we live in today? And to what extent can the neoliberal moral and institutional framework ...
• Law and the mastery of nature 

  Niemand, Lilandi (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-25)

  By approaching the current global climate crisis in a historical and philosophical context, this study aims to trace the origin of this crisis to the advent of Western Modernity, and its unique conception of nature. Moving ...
• The in- or ex-clusiveness of International Law 

  Achiume, E. Tendayi (Oxford University Press, 2023-02)

  No abstract available.
• Transformation of the reasonable person test in South African law 

  M'membe, Makumya (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This dissertation explores the evolving legal landscape in post-apartheid South Africa since the 1994 democratic elections. Focusing on the reasonable person test, a fundamental aspect of South African criminal law and ...
• Access to inclusive, quality basic education for children with disabilities in South Africa 

  Majid, Sabeeha (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The history of South Africa is plagued by centuries of oppression, isolation, racism and ableism which exist as a result of our colonial and Apartheid past. Colonialism and Apartheid, in their various forms and manifestations, ...
• The drive towards certainty : a short reflection on “law is/as code”, complexity, and “the uncontract” 

  Jooste, Yvonne (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)

  Increasingly, technology is used in the enforcement of legal rules. These changes, in addition to establishing new forms of regulation, have implications for the future functioning of the legal system. Most of the current ...
• #Black Lives (could) matter : Azania as remedy for the state of (dis)ease 

  Manamela, Thabang (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study contemplates the widely accepted claim that ‘South Africa’ has successfully parted ways with its history of colonial conquest, settler colonialism as well as colonial-apartheid. The study deploys the Azanian ...
• Doctor or Soldier first? Ethical and Legal Dichotomies in the Practice of Medicine in the Armed Forces 

  Muller, Gary Owen (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Armed forces of nations maintain military forces which include an element of medical support. The use of military medical practitioners is to maintain a fit for service force, provide rehabilitative and curative services ...
• A future of justice inclusion: examining access to justice in South Africa through the 'ethic of care' and 'complexity' 

  Nagtegaal, Jackie; Jooste, Yvonne (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-05)

  In South Africa, a number of obstructions exist to realising the right to access to justice as enshrined by section 34 of the South African constitution. Globally, many countries grapple with access to justice due to a ...
• Azanian political thought and the undoing of South African knowledges 

  Modiri, Joel Malesela (Berghahn Journals, 2021-09)

  This article sets out a few key questions, themes, and problems animating an Azanian social and political philosophy, with specific reference to the radical promise of undoing South African disciplinary knowledges. The ...
• Introduction to special issue: separation of powers, the judiciary and the politics of constitutional adjudication 

  Sibanda, Sanele (Routledge, 2020)

  This special issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights arises from a general call for papers that was issued in October 2019. The special issue has come to fruition in circumstances that none of us could ever have ...
• Falling through the cracks : the plight of “over-aged” children in the public education system 

  Arendse, Lorette (Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)

  The legislative and policy framework regulating compulsory education in South Africa requires that learners beyond the age of fifteen enrol in an adult education centre to meet their educational needs. Adult education which ...
• (Un)constitutional amendments and Cameroon constitutions : strange bedfellows with the rule of law and constitutionalism 

  Wanki, Justin Ngambu (Edinburgh University Press, 2021-02)

  The article examines unconstitutional constitutional amendments in the constitutional order of Cameroon dating back from 1960 to 2008. The examination reveals that all the amendments engaged within this period fail to ...
• Revisiting personal immunities for incumbent foreign heads of state in South Africa in light of the Grace Mugabe decision 

  Dyani-Mhango, Ntombizozuko (Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2021)

  In the Grace Mugabe decision in which the conclusion was arrived at that Grace Mugabe was not entitled to spousal immunity by virtue of being the wife of the then incumbent foreign head of state, Vally J remarked that ...
• The powers of the South African public protector : a note on economic freedom fighters v speaker of the national assembly 

  Mhango, Mtendeweka; Dyani-Mhango, Ntombizozuko (Brill Academic Publishers, 2021)

  The scope of the powers of the Public Protector was one of the main questions for determination by the Constitutional Court in the landmark case of Economic Freedom Fighters vs Speaker of the National Assembly. This note ...
• Tax legislation and the right to equality : does section 23(m) of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 rationally differentiate between salaried individuals and individuals who earn their income mainly from commission? 

  Botha, Louis; Meyer, Zoe; Kok, J.A. (Anton) (Juta Law, 2020)

  The authors speculate how a court should deal with a tax matter that implicates the right to equality. Section 23(m) of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 squarely raises an equality dispute — in the context of rational/irrational ...
• Reflections on prosecutorial independence and impartiality in South Africa : the recent jurisprudence of the courts 

  Dyani-Mhango, Ntombizozuko (Unisa Press, 2020-07)

  Prosecutorial independence and prosecutorial impartiality are important for the effective administration of criminal justice in South Africa. These two concepts are interconnected and yet they are distinct, and distinguishable ...
• The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate 

  Mogoeng, Oteng (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This study is based on anti-corruption discourse in South Africa and the legalistic way in which it is dominantly perceived. A qualitative methodology has been adopted to interrogate and problematize this legalistic ...
• Non-racialism as an effort to assimilate to whiteness 

  Ravenscroft, Elme (University of Pretoria, 2021-03-02)

  South Africa is one of the most unequal countries globally, and inequality is distributed along racial lines. The impoverishment of black people and its endurance is a product of colonialism and apartheid projects. The PIU ...

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