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The voting rights of mentally unsound or disorderly citizens and persons detained involuntarily under the mental health care act
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
South Africa is a diverse country that plays host to various minority groups. By a minority
group I mean a subordinate group whose members have significantly less power or control
over their lives than members of a ...
"The duties of states under international and constitutional law to secure rights of access to water and to protect water sources in situations of armed conflicts"
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
Water is the basis of our life and without it human beings cannot live for more than a few days. Nearly every function of our body depends on sufficient water. It is for this reason that the lack of access to clean water ...
Animal welfare and culling: A legal analysis of South African biodiversity law
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
South Africa lacks an effective wildlife welfare regulatory framework. Biodiversity legislation focuses on the conservation and sustainable of natural resources use under the auspices of section 24 of the Constitution. The ...
The Right to Strike - Is it an effective component in regulating the South African labour market?
(University of the Western Cape, 2003)
This research paper presents an analysis of the right to strike in South Africa. It starts by providing a historical overview of labour relations in South Africa and the development of the right to strike. The discussion ...
Surviving genocide: A critical analysis of the long-term impact of the Herero and Nama genocides
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The period 1904–1908 is historically significant among the Herero and Nama, as they still suffer from the impact of the genocide committed by the German colonisers. Nearly 80 per cent of the Otjiherero-speaking people and ...
Unfair discrimination within the South African Department of Correctional services against inmates with ancestral calling (Ubizo)
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The dissertation examines unfair discrimination within the South African Department of Correctional Services against inmates with ancestral calling (ubizo). Inmates (like everyone) have fundamental rights as enshrined by ...
A legal analysis of provincial intervention in a municipality
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
With the introduction of the 1996 Constitutor local government was for the first time in South African history acknowledged as a fully-fledged 'sphere' of government and its role and responsibilities as an equal partner ...
Making the rights of poor people practical in Malawi through a rights based approach to development
(University of the Western Cape, 2001)
This thesis tackles the issue of human rights and poverty in the context of Malawi. Our main concern is to find ways of how to make human rights practical for poor people in Malawi through a human rights-based approach to ...
A critical evaluation of some of the legal implications of the "war on Terror'' in international humanitarian law.
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
It would have been ideal to begin a mini-thesis of this nature with a definition of the term
terrorism. This approach will however not be taken for three reasons. Firstly, there are
disagreements inherent in the definition ...
The limitation of fundamental rights
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
South Africa's new Constitution has been hailed as one of the most democratic
and sophisticated in history, surpassing even the Constitutions of many first
world countries. Of paramount importance in the Constitution is ...