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Land matters and rural development: 2014 (2)
(VerLoren Van Themaat Centre / Unisa Press, 2014)
A Historical Overview of the Regulation of Market Abuse in South Africa
(AFRICAN JOURNALS ONLINE (AJOL), 2014)
In an early attempt to combat market abuse in the South African financial markets, legislation such as the Companies Act, the Financial Markets Control Act and the Stock Exchanges Control Act were enacted. However, these ...
Fragmentation revisited in the context of global environmental law and governance
(Juta, 2014)
This article argues that because of environmental law's usual focus on the fragmentation of international environmental law and international environmental governance, we have been missing out on an opportunity to consider ...
Rights discourse and practices, everyday violence and social protests: who counts as subject and whose lives are real in the neo-colonial South African nation state?
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
I seek to provide an explanation for the disjunction between the lived realities of marginalised, displaced and impoverished collectivities in the neo-colonial South African nation state and the language, politics and ...
Driving corporate social responsibility through Black economic empowerment
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
Motivated by the imperative to redress the imbalances caused by economic exclusion, government has taken remedial measures and established a framework aimed at empowering Black South Africans. Government's commitment to ...
A few comments on the (possible) revival of the customary law rule of male primogeniture : can the common-law principle of freedom of testation come to its rescue?
(Juta, 2014)
The customary law rule of male primogeniture has been declared unconstitutional and invalid, and legal sources of the common law of succession have been tailored to provide for the devolution of estates which were formerly ...
A non–member spouse's entitlement to the member's pension interest
(2014)
It is important that married couples seek legal advice with regard to the assets falling within their joint estate, more particularly their retirement benefits. This article reflects on the entitlement (if any) of non-member ...
A Critical Discussion of a Pension Interest as an Asset in the Joint Estate of Parties Married in Community of Property
(Speculum Juris, 2014)
It is fundamentally important for persons married to each other to understand their rights and
obligations in such a union, more particularly when they are married in community of property. Spouses should understand what ...
Poverty, migration and the incidence of HIV/AIDS among rural women in Lesotho: a Rights–Based Approach to public health strategies
(Sabinet, 2014)
This paper discusses how migration, poverty and gender-based discrimination have had an impact on HIV/AIDS vulnerability among rural women in Lesotho. It is based on data from a clinic-based HIV/AIDS prevalence study with ...
Access to Safe Water and the Human Development Quandary in Africa: Implications of a Rights–Based Approach
(Sabinet, 2014)
Despite formal and concerted commitments by African governments to achieve universal access to clean water through various initiatives since 2000, access to clean drinking water remains a continuous challenge for human ...