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Jurisprudence: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The thesis examines the colonial era in Cameroon with the view to determining whether or not there has been a shift from colonial ideologies or jurisprudential transformation in the new democratic dispensation. Constitutional ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study aims to establish the validity of the automatic termination of an employment contract. The automatic termination of an employment contract means that the contract is terminated ex lege and not by an act of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The salient issues concerning the powers of the United Nations Security Council culminate in questions of legitimacy. In terms of the United Nations Charter, the Council has a wide margin of discretion, and while its powers ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This study is based on the moral philosophy and theory of African humanness termed ubuntu. A qualitative methodology has been adopted to interpret ubuntu in the light of, and in contrast to the Eurocentrisim of human rights ...
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The subaltern can speak' reflections on voice through the lens of the politics of Jacques Rancière (University of Pretoria, 2015)The aim of the research is to reflect on the notion of political voice through the lens of the politics of Jacques Rancière. This reflection takes place against the background of the difficulty and complexity of issues ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This thesis is an interrogation of the concept of transformative constitutionalism; an idea developed in South Africa by American scholar Karl Klare. I seek to explore whether a project of transformative constitutionalism ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2015)On 16 August 2012, striking miners in Marikana, South Africa were fired upon by the South African Police Service, resulting in the death of 44 mineworkers. For many the incident has signalled a turning point for the country. ...
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(University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 2015)This article is a reflection on how Pretoria as a political, social and cultural space could be re-envisioned post-apartheid. The angle of approach is critical, general jurisprudence as advocated by Douzinas and Gearey ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2015)A case of anti-constitutional common-law development. This case tells the story of an egotistical husband and the fading principle of the horizontal application of the Bill of Rights. The husband alleged that his wife had ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-08-21)The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, ...
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(Swiss Anthropological Society, 2014)The women’s march in 1956 to the Union Buildings in Pretoria ended with thirty minutes of complete silence, as part of the protest against the extension of the Apartheid pass laws to women. Lilian Ngoyi initiated this ...
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(Southern African Society of Legal Historians, 2015)The purpose of this study is to trace the origin and development of emergency regimes in Cameroon, to address their negative impact on the current structure of the political system and to highlight the need for change in ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2015-12)The aim of my contribution is to reflect tentatively on a few values or ideals that I think could contribute to a healthy society in conjunction with a post-1994 jurisprudence. I focus on three ideals, or values, namely ...
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(Bohlau Verlag, 2014)Der Beitrag widmet sich den Anfängen rechtlicher Argumentation, die auf das römische Recht und, genauer, auf die republikanische Rechtswissenschaft zurückgehen. Ausgangspunkt ist die These von Stroux, dass das alte ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The Namibian Constitution grounds the legal system in values such as the rule of law, democracy, equality, respect for human dignity, freedom etc. My aim was to approach the Constitution as a transformative document. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Emergency regimes as a legacy of French colonialism in Cameroon remain a key instrument to legalising strategies of control and subjugation of people. Officials in the country have been relying on these regimes not to save ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)For decades legal positivism has governed the interpretation and application of the law in South Africa. This modernist utilisation of interpretative rules and the application of the law as it is, rather than as it ought ...
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(SUNMeDIA, 2014)In this article I contemplate the possibility of a relationship between democracy and the democracy to come experienced from within an inoperative community of law students. The reason for this contemplation is to ascertain ...
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