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(Routledge, 2016-06)It is now widely recognised that the unregulated processing of personal information has had a significant impact on key human rights like privacy, dignity, integrity, personality and autonomy. However, while other regions ...
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(Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2023)The year 2021 witnessed a global “coup pandemic”, with the highest number of successful overthrows of government in the past twenty years. Many of them – in Chad, Guinea, Mali, Sudan – occurred in Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...
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(Routledge, 2021)One of Africa’s major challenges in the last three decades has been the need to restore confidence in the judiciary. During the long years of dictatorial rule, judges were stripped of their independence and appointed or ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2020)The need to act swiftly in times of emergency gives governments a reason to exercise emergency powers. This is a legally valid and accepted practice in modern democracies. Post-independence African constitutions contained ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)Constitution-building is a delicate and intricate process which requires ample reflection and careful choices. African constitution-builders and politicians have since the beginning of the 1990s embarked on a process of ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2018-06)The prominent place given to decentralization in the design of post-1990 African constitutions has been likened to a silent revolution. This is not surprising, for sharing power has been anathema to post-independence African ...
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(Routledge, 2018)The issue of constitutional literacy has attracted very little attention in scholarship on constitutionalism in Africa. This is not surprising, because the early constitutions were virtually imposed by the departing colonial ...
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(North West University, Faculty of Law, 2015)As this is a nation riddled with a history of inequality, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is a sign-post to what one hopes is an end destination of inclusivity. Post-1994 the new democratic government faced ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This article critically examines the jurisprudence of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the African Commission) on the right to development (RTD). Notwithstanding the controversy over the RTD, it is ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2017-02)Until fairly recently, the issue of constitutional implementation has surprisingly received little attention both in constitutional theory and practice. Yet it is a crucial aspect of constitutional effectiveness. Without ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2020)No abstract available.
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)Serious efforts to entrench the rule of law in Africa came with the socalled third wave of democratisation in the 1990s. This democratic revival raised hopes of a new era of governance guided by the basic principles of ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-03)It is generally recognised that election management bodies (EMBs) constitute one of the most important institutions needed to sustain Africa‟s fledgling transition to democratic and constitutional governance. They are ...
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Gender equality in African customary law : has the male ultimogeniture rule any future in Botswana? (Cambridge University Press, 2014-09)The actual and perceived conflicts between customary law and human rights law, especially in issues dealing with gender equality, have remained a major challenge in Africa. Some of these conflicts are further complicated ...
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(The American Society of Comparative Law, 2012)This paper aims to examine the possible impact that the internationalization of constitutional law may have on constitutional developments and the consolidation of constitutionalism and the rule of law in Africa. As an ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2021)The territorial scope of the application of human rights treaties has been a core discussion when dealing with the enforcement of human rights obligations imposed by human rights treaties on State Parties. In particular, this ...
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(Edinburgh University Press, 2013-01)Serious efforts to legally recognise and protect human rights in Africa came only with the constitutional reforms that started in the 1990s.Many of the resulting new or revised constitutions now contain provisions aimed ...
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(Pretoria University Law Press, 2018)After the wave of democratic and constitutional reforms in the 1990s, the rule of law appeared to have enjoyed a revival in Africa. Apparently there were strong constitutional commitments by African countries for ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)Most recent accounts paint a bleak and gloomy picture of the state of global democracy. This is particularly so in Africa where the optimism of a democratic revival in the 1990s is rapidly giving way to narratives of doom ...
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(Springer, 2017-07)The right to personal data protection is, without doubt, an important right in the jurisprudence of rights in the contemporary information society. It is becoming as crucial as other orthodox human rights and also ...
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