Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject "customary law"
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The Constitutional Rules of Succession to the Institution of Monarch in Lesotho
(PER/PELJ, 2019)The rules that govern succession to the office of King in Lesotho are largely customary. The Constitution of Lesotho, 1993 provides that succession to the office of King shall be regulated in terms of customary law; the ... -
The Customary Anatomy of the Traditional Governance of the Bafokeng Traditional Community: The Implications of the Constitutional Recognition of Hereditary Headmanship
(2017-10-18)The institution of the hereditary headmanship of the Bafokeng traditional community in the North West Province, South Africa has been in existence from time immemorial. It survived the calamities and vicissitudes of both ... -
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part 2: Developing customary and common law and circumventing the volks judgment
(PER / PELJ, 2018)Part I of this two-part article argued that post-constitutional developments of the right to support have excluded the largest and most vulnerable sector of South African women – African women in invalid customary marriages ... -
A duty of support for all South African unmarried intimate partners Part I: The limits of the cohabitation and marriage based models
(PER / PELJ, 2018)The democratic Constitutional dispensation has led to the gradual extension of spousal duties of support to unmarried couples who hitherto could not legally claim support from their partners or from third parties who had ... -
Public participation in African constitutionalism (Routledge Abingdon and New York 2018)
(PER/PELJ, 2019)This review explores why public participation in constitution-making matters for cultivating responsible governance and for fine-tuning justice, focused on immensely rich African evidence within a broader comparative ... -
Untitled: Securing land tenure in urban and rural South Africa (2017 University of KwaZulu-Natal Press)
(PER, 2018-01-16)This contribution provides a review of the book edited by Donna Hornby, Rosalie Kingwill, Lauren Royston and Ben Cousins, Untitled: Securing Land Tenure in Urban and Rural South Africa. It deals with the topic of land ...