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The impact of legal process outsourcing in South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO), the act of sending legal work to an offshore
destination or onshore to another location within the same country by a law firm or
legal department to a legal outsourcing company, has ...
Inhuman sentencing of children: A foucus on Zimbabwe and Botswana
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
The prevalence of corporal punishment and life imprisonment sentences for children in Africa is tied to their legal history. Colonialism had an extensive impact on the criminal law of most African States, including the ...
Land grabbing in Ethiopia and Madagascar: Balancing respect for human rights of victims with development needs through land investments
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Many African states are in dire need of economic development to alleviate poverty, enhance the quality of life of peoples and bring development home. To meet this aim, land investments have been the preferred mode of ...
The investigation and prosecution of corruption in Uganda
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This study analyzed the investigation and prosecution of corruption in Uganda. The study assessed the phenomena of corruption and how it can create an unjust society. It also examined the legal framework governing the ...
Hungry for knowledge, hungry for bread: Realising the right to food of students in South African tertiary institutions
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
Many of the disadvantaged groups which are impacted by a high burden of poverty and are thereby food insecure in South Africa, have over the years received attention from the government, resulting in many interventionist ...
Deploying transitional justice mechanisms as anti-corruption tools in Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This thesis advocates the expansion of the field of transitional justice to address corruption in African states emerging from conflict or authoritarianism. There is a close connection between corruption and conflict or ...
The right to alternative care of children with disabilities in Ethiopia and South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
The importance of a nurturing environment on early child development and the central role that a family environment plays to this end are widely recognised. However, most children with disabilities lack family life and ...
Forced sterilisation as a continuing violation of human rights in Africa: Possibilities and challenges
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
International standards recognise the basic right of all women and girls to make free choices about reproduction including the number if any, spacing and timing of their children without being subjected to discrimination, ...
Decentralisation and Recentralisation in Anglophone Southern Africa: Factors driving the EBB and flow of power
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Literature on multilevel government is replete with the virtues of decentralisation as a governing model. As a result, the discourse of decentralisation has found its way into the constitutions, legislation and policy ...
The interface between customary laws of succession in the traditional justice system and the formal justice system in
(UWC, 2020)
Traditional justice systems (TJS), which apply African customary law (ACL), play a significant role in the regulation of various cultural, social, and economic spheres of individual lives in society. It is estimated that ...