Doctor Legum - LLD: Recent submissions
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Implementing the spatial planning and land use management act of 2013: an examination of the intersection of the role of traditional leaders and municipalities in spatial planning and land use management.
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)This study examines the intersection of the role of traditional leaders and municipalities in spatial planning and land use management. More specifically, the study interrogates the factors which led to tension and conflict ... -
Rethinking the institutional structure of financial regulation in an era of fintech: the Nigerian case
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The study explores why and how to adapt the institutional structure of financial regulation to address the risks, changes, and regulatory challenges of financial technology (Fintech). Drawing on authoritative literature ... -
The effectiveness of the South African critical skills visa in comparative perspective
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)There are notable skill shortages in South Africa. This thesis explores the reasons behind the skills shortages, including the impact of apartheid on education, brain drain, brain waste, and lack of apprenticeships. ... -
The role of international law in juvenile justice Reform in south africa
(UWC, 2001)This t hesis w ill seek to trace and to analyse the impact of international chi ldren's rights law upon the process of juvenile justice reform in South Africa during the past decade. As documented more fully in Chapter 2 ... -
Legal responses to the right to nationality and prevention of statelessness among children in Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The challenge of statelessness among children is a persistent problem that requires a wide range of measures. Already constituting a societal group in a vulnerable situation, children born into situations of statelessness ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of the audit committee: A case for protection of the independence of the audit committee under the South African corporate structure
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The recent wave of corporate governance failures in South Africa has exposed, among others, weaknesses in the realm of the audit committee as an oversight body within the corporate structure, both in private and public ... -
Access to reproductive health and rights for indigenous women in Zimbabwe: A case of the San community in Tsholotsho and Plumtree
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)Access to healthcare, including reproductive health, is an essential human right that necessitates the attainment of human development, non-discrimination between genders, and promotes women’s rights. Reproductive health ... -
Women's access to land in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The thesis analysed the Ugandan policy and legal framework on women’s land rights vis-à-vis the regional and international legal and policy framework, to identify the gaps, progress and the way forward. Four objectives ... -
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 ... -
Safeguarding the right to freedom from arbitrary detention in Cameroon
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)Arbitrary detention is a human rights violation. Its complete eradication is a major concern to the international community. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is the main treaty that protects ... -
The situs of the registered trade mark right in South African law considered in the light of parallel importation
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)National trade mark registers exist in most jurisdictions around the world despite the demands of international trade in the global economy', the global economy being reputed to abhor all barriers to trade such as those ... -
The effect of a constitution and bill of rights on abortion in South Africa: A comparative study
(University of the Western Cape, 1995)This dissertation explores the effect that, the new democratic order could have on the abortion laws of South Africa. In particular, it investigates how the Transitional Constitution with its Bill of Rights may impact, on ... -
Fighting corruption in the energy sector in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)This study contributes to understanding the governance challenges that impact on Tanzania’s future as a petroleum producing state. It considers corruption, which has fuelled insecurity, violence, and poverty in most of the ... -
An analysis of the human rights and gender consequences of the new South African constitution and bill of rights with regard to the recognition and implementation of Muslim personal law (MPL)
(University of the Western Cape, 1996)Prior to the new constitutional dispensation in South Africa all women had identities of race and gender imposed on them. With a new dispensation in place Muslim women, however, still have to deal with identities attributed ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal systems and self-rule: A Kenyan case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The conferment of self-rule or autonomy to subnational governments is incomplete without the corresponding conferment of the financial means and discretion necessary to facilitate the exercise of such autonomy. This makes ... -
Intergovernmental fiscal systems and self-rule: A Kenyan case study
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The conferment of self-rule or autonomy to subnational governments is incomplete without the corresponding conferment of the financial means and discretion necessary to facilitate the exercise of such autonomy. This makes ... -
Post-1996 service delivery in South Africa: Constitutional and social contract perspectives
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)The human rights movement, which emerged after the end of the Second World War, has created consensus in the international community that basic social amenities are indispensable for human development. These amenities are ... -
The Allocation and Administration of Land by Traditional Leaders in the Republic of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)Land allocation and administration is a crucial role for traditional leaders, because it has remained one of the few de facto powers and sources of influence still available to them in their areas of jurisdictions.1 This ... -
Life imprisonment in international criminal tribunals and selected African jurisdictions - Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)It is rare in law and in other disciplines for a word or a phrase to appear to mean what it does not. This is, however, true when it comes to life imprisonment or life sentence. I Unlike sentences like the death penalty, ... -
Life imprisonment in international criminal tribunals and selected African jurisdictions - Mauritius, South Africa and Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2009)It is rare in law and in other disciplines for a word or a phrase to appear to mean what it does not. This is, however, true when it comes to life imprisonment or life sentence. I Unlike sentences like the death penalty, ...