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Mitigating the effects of the ever-widening fiscal gap plaguing metropolitan municipalities in South Africa: A quest for an additional own-revenue source in the form of a Local Business Tax.
(2019)The prominent role of cities in contemporary developing countries, especially in South Africa, purposively cannot be overstated. Home to 40 per cent of South Africa’s population and accounting for 63 per cent of the national ... -
Mobile Money Payments as Vehicles for Money Laundering: A Case Study of Malawi
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Money laundering is defined as the process of converting the proceeds derived from a wide range of underlying criminal offences, called predicate offences, to apparently legitimate property. In other words, it is the process ... -
Municipal Planning By-laws and the extent to which they give effect to the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013.
(University of Western Cape, 2017)The spatial legacy created by the planning laws of the apartheid regime is still apparent in most cities and towns across South Africa. The legacy of apartheid spatial planning reveals not only planning which was undertaken ... -
Municipal regulation of food and waste pickers on landfill sites in South Africa: what should municipalities (dis)allow?
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The unemployment rate in South Africa is alarmingly high. In the year 2018, the unemployment rate was recorded at 27.2%. Many people are forced to do desperate, and even dangerous things in order to sustain themselves. ... -
Muslim family law and judicial protection of women’s rights in Kenya: an assessment
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The status of women in Muslim majority and minority states is a major question in the articulation of rights in non-Western settings. Contestations over women’s rights in these societies are thought to stem from conundrums ... -
The Nagoya protocol: a possible solution to the protection of traditional knowledge in biodiverse societies of Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)There is a growing interplay of competing realities facing the international community in the general areas of innovation, technological advancement and overall economic development. The highly industrialised wealthy ... -
Namibia's implementation of the financial action task force's international standards on combating the financing of terrorism
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Terrorism has become one of the biggest threats to international peace and security. It threatens to destroy basic human rights and freedoms, particularly the rights to life, liberty, security, and in more recent times, ... -
The national implementation of international human rights law pertaining to children with disabilities in selected jurisdictions in Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2014)This thesis considers two jurisdictions, namely Malawi and South Africa, and attributes the problem to the lack of appropriate national implementation of the applicable human rights law by these states. Consequently, the ... -
Natural fathers of extramarital children should have an inherent right of access to their children!
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)The story which I am about to relate is a true one. However, to protect the privacy of the parties concerned, their names have been changed. I have a friend called Bob. Bob is the biological father of a five-year-old girl ... -
The nature of the legal relationship between the three RECs and the envisaged TFTA: a focus on the dispute settlement mechanism
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The need for a comprehensive international convention on crimes against humanity
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)In the field of international law three core crimes generally make up the jurisdiction of international criminal tribunals: war crimes; genocide; and crimes against humanity. Only two of these crimes (war crimes and genocide) ... -
The need to recalibrate the Africa trade facilitation legal framework to achieve an enduring intra-African trade
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)It is necessary to improve on Africa poor and stagnated share of the global trade and to attract bigger share of the global investments funds to meet the growing developmental challenges. The bottlenecks at the borders ... -
A new era for the eu-sadc trade relationship: a critical analysis of the EU-SADC EPA and the impact on regional integration in SADC and South Africa’s role in the negotiations
(2007)The EPA’s will have an impact on regional integration in Africa, especially in the SADC region. The region has been split between the SADC and ESA EPA configuration therefore impacting on regional integration objectives ... -
Non-formalised cohabitation : does the Swedish model of statutory regulation provide a solution for South Africa?
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)South Africa has come a long way from the rigid family structures which existed in the past. This is demonstrated by the recognition afforded to couples in same-sex relationships as well as those in customary marriages. ... -
The North –South divide in international environmental law after the Paris agreement
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)Global climate change is a serious, severe, and potentially irreversible problem. If no actions are taken to curb greenhouse gas emissions, global temperatures and sea levels will rise, wreaking havoc on earth, particularly ... -
The notion of non-reciprocity under special and differential treatment: a stab in the back for developing countries?
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Obstacles to the Implementation of the Financial Action Task Force’s Recommendations in the Eastern and Southern African Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG)
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)Money laundering is a global problem that has adverse effects on both the developed and developing countries. If unchecked, it accelerates crime and criminal activities, affects the economy, undermines the integrity of ... -
On the threshold of political corruption : the case against lobbying in Germany
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)Political lobbying is a recent and widespread phenomenon that arises in countries where many big and economically important companies are located. It is a relatively new phenomenon and the term 'lobbying' has featured in ... -
Outsourcing basic municipal services: policy, legislation and contracts
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)Municipalities in South Africa are increasingly outsourcing municipal services, including basic municipal services such as water and sanitation services and refuse collection and disposal. The Constitution places onerous ...