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Theses and Dissertations (Public Law)
Recent Submissions
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Ntola, Siqhamo Yamkela
(University of Pretoria, 2024-03-29)
Jurisdictional certainty in Africa’s ocean spaces, as indicated in the 2050 Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy (AIMS), is essential if the continent’s oceans economy is to make a meaningful contribution towards ...
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Umenze, Nnamdi S.S.
(University of Pretoria, 2024-10)
This study explores the scope of the duty to provide reparations, the individual victims' right to reparation and the process to obtain or enforce reparations for misconduct committed by peacekeepers, which constitutes a ...
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Nkomo, Zororai
(University of Pretoria, 2024-10-23)
The ushering in of the new constitutional dispensation in 2013 heralded the dawn of a new epoch in the reinvigoration of the impetus to fight human trafficking in Zimbabwe by trying to domesticate the Protocol to Prevent, ...
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Ojedokun, Ayodele Olubunmi
(University of Pretoria, 2024-09-01)
This thesis analyzed the existing laws relating to non-international armed conflict, namely Common Article 3 and Additional Protocol II, to address the complex nature of contemporary armed conflict which often challenges ...
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Daniel, Kobina Egyir
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
At the 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Union’s Assembly of Heads of State and Government held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea in June 2014, the Assembly adopted, amongst others, the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol ...
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Olowa, Abimbola
(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-31)
This thesis considered the benefits of establishing specialised environmental courts in South Africa. The thesis analysed the functioning of four existing specialised courts in South Africa – the Labour Court, the Land ...
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Mogashoa, Itumeleng
(University of Pretoria, 2023-10)
The Yamoussoukro Decision is an air transport framework agreement adopted by 54 African states in 1999 with one of its objectives being the achievement of the gradual yet full liberalisation of scheduled and non-scheduled ...
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Ramothwala, Mpho Olivia
(University of Pretoria, 2024-02)
This study investigates the appropriateness of Child Support Grants (CSGs) in advancing the
socio-economic rights of children in South Africa (SA), as guaranteed in sections 27 and 28 of
the Constitution of the Republic ...
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Van Jaarsveld, Andries Sarel Marthinus
(University of Pretoria, 2023-11)
The regulation of agricultural land in South Africa draws effect from several existing statutes at the backdrop of the Constitution. The Draft Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Framework Bill 2021 was firstly ...
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Müller, Kyla Annancia
(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-31)
Terrorism is a widely spoken word globally, with not many people understanding its true meaning or its place within international law. The idea of terrorism usually involves suicide bombings, mass shootings and/or murders ...
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van Schalkwyk, Megan
(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-27)
This mini-dissertation examines the growing concern surrounding the involvement of private actors in conflict situations, where their lack of accountability, owing to the absence of responsible State actors, poses a potential ...
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Somo, Tshephisho Mokone
(University of Pretoria, 2023-06-30)
The South African Constitution, over and above providing for rights and obligations, makes provision for the relevant organs of state against which these rights and obligations may be enforced (the constitutional scheme). ...
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Adam, Muhammad
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Classification of armed conflicts in international law is important because it determines whether the law of international armed conflict or the law of non-international armed conflict applies to the parties in a conflict. ...
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Nkamana, Zingisani
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The coming into force of the interim Constitution and later, the final Constitution in 1996, ushered, amongst other things, a need to control the exercise of public power. Rationality was introduced as one of the principles ...
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Olanipekun, Olusegun
(University of Pretoria, 2024)
This full dissertation in public constitutional and administrative law examines the constitutional foundations on decentralisation and devolution of state authority in Africa. It compares the constitutions of South Africa, ...
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Shilaho, Caroline Vicheti
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
The study aimed to assess the role, if any, of States Parties, acting individually or collectively, in interpreting the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) when the Statute has granted the express ...
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Malimi, Prezidius
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
In 2017, Tanzania introduced a new legislation in the extractive sector, the Natural Wealth and Resources (Permanent Sovereignty) Act No. 5 of 2017 (‘the Act’). The legislation prohibits the referral of cases to international ...
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Coetzee, Wydeman
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
This mini-dissertation intends to explores the use of High-Altitude Platforms (HAPS) for broadband communication services in rural areas as an alternative to mobile networks, as half the world's population, most of whom ...
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Cornelius, Willem Stefanus
(University of Pretoria, 2023)
On the 22nd of October 2021, a revolutionary new device called a Sub-orbital Accelerator was powered up for its first test launch in the desserts of New Mexico in the United States. The kinetic Sub-orbital launching system ...
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Ngoai, Madila Asiel
(University of Pretoria, 2024)
Cooperation, which is the main theme of the study, is at the centre of the regime of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Without cooperation, which is a key principle of international law, the ICC would essentially be ...
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