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The traditional Leadership and Governance Framework Act, 2003, and its subsequent provincial legislation: a critical review of attempts at integrating traditional leadership into the new democracy in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The subject of this research paper is the analysis of the recent national and provincial legislation on traditional leadership. Within the new constitutional dispensation the legislature had to retain traditional leadership ...
Evaluating the impact on the girl child through the criminal activities associated with the practice of ukuthwala
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Ukuthwala is an ancient cultural practice that has been exercised in various parts of South Africa, especially in the Eastern Cape. It occurs in different communities and is informed by traditional beliefs. The man’s family ...
Balancing emancipatory legal pluralism and cultural relativism
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The concept of legal pluralism receives tremendous attention in sub-Saharan Africa. Notably,
this attention arises because of the domineering tendency displayed by transplanted European
legal orders now known as state ...
Ubuntu and the South African Law of Contract with particular reference to the common law Contract of Employment
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The concept of ubuntu has exercised the minds of many philosophers and jurists in
recent times. This arises from the fact that the concept has many facets to it –
etymological, linguistic, ethical and juridical – all of ...