Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 316
Water Security and the Right to Water in Southern Africa: An Overview
(2017-01-05)
The Southern African region's water-related problems are quite diverse. From the struggles of indigenous communities in Botswana to the cholera outbreaks in Zimbabwe; from the difficulties of poor communities in accessing ...
Application of Section 30 of the Restitution of Land Rights Act in the Courts: Some Guidelines
(2017-10-17)
In terms of section 30 of the Restitution of Land Rights Act 22 of 1994, the court is allowed to "admit any evidence, including oral evidence, which it considers relevant and cogent to the matter being heard by it, whether ...
A Historical Overview of the Regulation of Market Abuse in South Africa
(AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE (AJOL), 2014)
In an early attempt to combat market abuse in the South African financial markets, legislation such as the Companies Act, the Financial Markets Control Act and the Stock Exchanges Control Act were enacted. However, these ...
Legal instruments to consider in structuring parenting plans
(Oxford University Press, 2011)
The objective of this article is to provide the legal context of parenting plans in South Africa. The Children‟s Act 38 of 2005 (hereafter Children‟s Act) makes explicit provision for parenting plans. It is therefore ...
Rights discourse and practices, everyday violence and social protests: who counts as subject and whose lives are real in the neo-colonial South African nation state?
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
I seek to provide an explanation for the disjunction between the lived realities of marginalised, displaced and impoverished collectivities in the neo-colonial South African nation state and the language, politics and ...
Driving corporate social responsibility through Black economic empowerment
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Motivated by the imperative to redress the imbalances caused by economic exclusion, government has taken remedial measures and established a framework aimed at empowering Black South Africans. Government's commitment to ...
Land matters and rural development: 2012(1)
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / Unisa Press, 2013)
Die opskorting van omgewingsgedinge in insolvensie
(Juta, 2014)
One of the goals of environmental law is the immediate clean-up, remediation and restoration of environmental damage, the compensation of such damage and to attribute the obligation to pay for the costs of the clean-up to ...
Rethinking global environmental law and governance in the Antrhopocene
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
The word Anthropocene describes a new geological epoch that follows the Holocene epoch. It is the signifier of the period in which people have a devastating and overwhelming impact on the earth and its systems. The ...
A critique of the unemployment insurance amendment bill, 2015
(2015)
The contribution critically reflects on the proposed amendments to the Unemployment Insurance Act 63 of 2001 (the UIA / the Act), introduced via the provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Amendment Bill of 2015 (B25-2015). ...