Over the years, the South African retirement fund industry has experienced major
regulatory changes. These changes were aimed at imposing a higher standard of
governance on the boards of trustees governing various pension ...
This paper evaluates the Canadian and the European Union's (EU) implementation
of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) General Council Decision of 2003, which
resolved that developed nations could export patented pharmaceutical ...
South Africa is renowned for having a progressive Constitution with strong protection
of human rights, including protection for persons using the public health system.
While significant recent discourse and jurisprudence ...
Without some level of institutionalisation or other means of enforcement, national
commitment to regional trade integration is bound to face some challenges.
Accordingly, transnational trade is obviously inhibited when ...
Under the pervasive influence of United States First Amendment jurisprudence, adult
gender-specific sexually explicit (or “pornographic”) material is conceptualized, and thus
protected in the “marketplace of ideas”, as ...
This article looks at the definition of cyber terrorism and terrorist use of the Internet.
The article evaluates cyber terrorist threats facing countries such as the United
States of America, the United Kingdom, India ...
The debate concerning the use of violence by the police force is an endless one.
Section 49 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 serves as a framework for the
use of violence by police officers during arrests in South ...
The fundamental goal of the International Labour Organisation is the achievement of
decent and productive work for both women and men in conditions of freedom, equity,
security and human dignity. The South African ...
This contribution focuses on the modalities of mutual legal assistance and extradition
from a South African perspective. The question is posed whether South Africa has
succeeded to establish the required framework as a ...
The Road Accident Fund Amendment Act 19 of 2005 came into effect on 1 August
2008. This Act limits the Road Accident Fund’s liability for compensation in respect
of claims for non-pecuniary loss to instances where a ...
The RAF Amendment Act 19 of 2005 came into effect on 1 August 2008 and
sections 17(1) and 17(1A) introduced the concept of “serious injury”. This entails that
a third-party claimant who wishes to claim compensation for ...
It is universally accepted that renewable energy is an important contributing factor
towards the promotion of sustainable development. The implementation of renewable
energy needs to be regulated in an effective manner ...
The relationship between the individual and the State is discussed in this contribution.
The argument is put forward that both the State and the individual are legal subjects
endowed with legal subjectivity. In their ...
This article attempts to understand the radical reform of Scottish land law in its
provision for a general right of public access to private land introduced in 2003 as
part of land reform legislation, an important aspect ...
This paper analyses impacts of the federal system and the decentralisation of
functions to the district level on Ethiopia's socio-economic development. Firstly we
will highlight the principles of the Ethiopian federal ...
Since the rise to power of the Movement government under the leadership of Yoweri
Museveni in 1986, Uganda has largely been show-cased as an emerging democracy
on the continent. Among other things, Museveni's regime has ...
Decentralisation can enable a country's population to exercise political influence at
regional and local level. This presupposes a willingness to assume responsibility. It
also presupposes that those in power are willing ...
Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann of the North Gauteng High Court delivered the address
published here as he delivered it in Afrikaans in the series of FW de Klerk lectures in
Potchefstroom on 20 February 2012. He dealt with ...