Investigating the planned prohibition of child marriage in South Africa against children's evolving capacity to consent
| dc.contributor.advisor | Skelton, Ann, 1961- | |
| dc.contributor.email | porogo24@gmail.com | en_US |
| dc.contributor.postgraduate | Porogo, Molebogeng Carol Phillip | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-10T13:18:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-10T13:18:01Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2025-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-10 | |
| dc.description | Mini Dissertation (LLM (Child Law))--University of Pretoria, 2024. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This mini dissertation considers the proposed law reform in South Africa but also refers extensively to the Zimbabwean case of Mudzuru & Another v the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & 2 Others AR579/2019, and how both these countries have aimed at regulating the age of marriage to eighteen years. While it may be correct that children ought to be protected against harmful practices perpetuated by child marriage, especially where consent is lacking, there are however instances where children below the age of 18 may choose to get married, but due to stringent measures may not be able to so. This mini dissertation explores the apparent tensions between the recognition of children’s evolving capacity and their growing autonomy on the one hand, with the need to protect them from the harmful effects of child marriage | en_US |
| dc.description.availability | Unrestricted | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | LLM (Child Law) | en_US |
| dc.description.department | Centre for Child Law | en_US |
| dc.description.faculty | Faculty of Laws | en_US |
| dc.description.sdg | None | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | * | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | * | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | A2025 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/100664 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Pretoria | |
| dc.rights | © 2023 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) | en_US |
| dc.subject | Child marriage | en |
| dc.subject | Evolving capacity | en |
| dc.subject | Informed consent | en |
| dc.subject | Children and decision making | en |
| dc.subject | Prohibition of child marriage | en |
| dc.title | Investigating the planned prohibition of child marriage in South Africa against children's evolving capacity to consent | en_US |
| dc.type | Mini Dissertation | en_US |