Browsing PER: 2013 Volume 16 No 1 by Title
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The history of labour hire in Namibia: a lesson for South Africa
(2013)Labour hire, the practice of hiring out employees to clients by a labour broker, has been a part of Namibia’s history since the early 1900s in the form of the contract labour system. This form of employment was characterized ... -
HIV/AIDS, to disclose or not to disclose: that is the question
(2013)The systemic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa are evident not only in demographic, economic and social trends, but also on a micro- and personal level, where they are devastating. Those infected with ... -
The impact on women on the removal of gender as a rating variable in motor-vehicle insurance
(2013)Insurers use actuarial statistics as rating variables to differentiate and distinguish for the purposes of risk classification. They justify their use of actuarial statistics due to its accuracy as a predictor of risk. ... -
The inforcement of the payment of lobolo and its impact on children's rights in South Africa
(2013)Various communities in South Africa practise the custom of lobolo (payment in kind or cash by a prospective husband or the head of his family to the head of the prospective wife’s family in consideration of a customary ... -
The paradox of migration and the interest of the atomistic nation-states: the Southern African perspective
(2013)The "paradox of migration and the interests of the atomistic nation-states" interrogates the phenomenon of migration in general and in the Southern African Development Community in particular. The point of departure of ... -
Protecting critical databases - towards a risk based assessment of critical information infrastructures (CIIS) in South Africa
(2013)South Africa has made great strides towards protecting critical information infrastructures (CIIs). For example, South Africa recognises the significance of safeguarding places or areas that are essential to the national ... -
Reasonable and probable cause in the law of malicious prosecution: a review of South African and commonwealth decisions
(2013)The requirement that the plaintiff in an action for malicious prosecution must prove a lack of reasonable and probable cause to initiate, instigate or continue the prosecution on the part of the instigator or prosecutor ... -
Recent developments in the provision of pro bono legal services by attorneys in South Africa
(2013)This paper focuses on legal service delivery for the indigent by attorneys in private practice acting pro bono in civil rather than criminal matters. In this regard there have been and continue to be considerable gaps ... -
A selection of constitutional perspectives on human kidney sales
(2013)There are thousands of desperate people globally who need a kidney for transplantation. The number of people who require a kidney transplant continues to escalate faster than the number of kidneys available for a transplant. ... -
The use of official languages act: diversity affirmed?
(2013)A full sixteen years after the coming into force of the 1996 Constitution, Parliament responded to the constitutional obligation to regulate and monitor, by legislative and other means, the use of official languages by ...