• Achieving equality and accessibility for persons with visual impairments: uncovering deficiencies in South African consumer protection and labelling legislation 

  Van den Berg, Michal Danielle (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-15)

  This thesis delves into the intricate landscape of product labelling legislation in South Africa, shedding light on its inherent inaccessibility concerning product labels and accompanying leaflets. By meticulously examining ...
• Neoliberal internationalism : intellectual roots, global manifestations, and South African realities 

  Pillay, Dillon (University of Pretoria, 2024-03-20)

  This study seeks to answer two broad questions: how did the long-termist thinking of key neoliberal thinkers help to shape the world we live in today? And to what extent can the neoliberal moral and institutional framework ...
• Law and the mastery of nature 

  Niemand, Lilandi (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-25)

  By approaching the current global climate crisis in a historical and philosophical context, this study aims to trace the origin of this crisis to the advent of Western Modernity, and its unique conception of nature. Moving ...
• Transformation of the reasonable person test in South African law 

  M'membe, Makumya (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This dissertation explores the evolving legal landscape in post-apartheid South Africa since the 1994 democratic elections. Focusing on the reasonable person test, a fundamental aspect of South African criminal law and ...
• Access to inclusive, quality basic education for children with disabilities in South Africa 

  Majid, Sabeeha (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The history of South Africa is plagued by centuries of oppression, isolation, racism and ableism which exist as a result of our colonial and Apartheid past. Colonialism and Apartheid, in their various forms and manifestations, ...
• #Black Lives (could) matter : Azania as remedy for the state of (dis)ease 

  Manamela, Thabang (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study contemplates the widely accepted claim that ‘South Africa’ has successfully parted ways with its history of colonial conquest, settler colonialism as well as colonial-apartheid. The study deploys the Azanian ...
• Doctor or Soldier first? Ethical and Legal Dichotomies in the Practice of Medicine in the Armed Forces 

  Muller, Gary Owen (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Armed forces of nations maintain military forces which include an element of medical support. The use of military medical practitioners is to maintain a fit for service force, provide rehabilitative and curative services ...
• The ideology and politics of anti-corruption : reframing the debate 

  Mogoeng, Oteng (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This study is based on anti-corruption discourse in South Africa and the legalistic way in which it is dominantly perceived. A qualitative methodology has been adopted to interrogate and problematize this legalistic ...
• Non-racialism as an effort to assimilate to whiteness 

  Ravenscroft, Elme (University of Pretoria, 2021-03-02)

  South Africa is one of the most unequal countries globally, and inequality is distributed along racial lines. The impoverishment of black people and its endurance is a product of colonialism and apartheid projects. The PIU ...
• Inequality in the public basic education system: the role of the South African courts in effecting radical transformation 

  Arendse, Lorette (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  The purpose of this thesis is to critically evaluate the South African courts’ role in contributing to the radical transformation of public basic education which is mandated by the South African Constitution. The author ...
• Realigning human rights with the land question in South Africa 

  Khosa, Shipoyila Ernest (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  This study commences from the premises that the1994 political settlement in South Africa as reflected by the 1996 Constitution and government policies offer no solution to the land question in South Africa. By the land ...
• An analysis of the justification of the stringent natural person insolvency law system in South Africa in light of the "advantage to creditors" requirement 

  Gildenhuys, Hans Jacob (University of Pretoria, 2020-11)

  The dissertation considers the justification of the stringent natural person insolvency system in light of the “advantage to creditors” requirement. Jackson’s (The Logic and Limits of Bankruptcy Law (1986) 3) criteria of ...
• Racism and Abjection in the (Post) Colony 

  Muller, Lavonne Elorie (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This study examines Kristeva’s notion of abjection to understand the workings of colonial racism. Given the limitations of her Eurocentric standpoint, reference will also be made to the critiques and engagements with ...
• Stereotypes that affect the advancement of African women in South African universities 

  Mashilwane, M. Victor (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  No abstract available
• The voiceless woman : countering dominant narratives concerning women with disabilities in Nigeria 

  Johnson, Adetokunbo (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The main research problem in this study is whether law and specifically the human rights framework can speak to the lived experiences and realities of the disabled Nigerian woman. This thesis reflects the frustrations ...
• Decolonial reconstruction : a framework for creating a ceaseless process of decolonising South African society 

  Reinders, Michael Bongani (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This dissertation explores the notion of decolonial reconstruction to promote the decolonising process in South Africa. Decolonial reconstruction entails the creation of a new South African society through a clear paradigmatic ...
• The registrability of single colours as trade marks 

  Wilken, Sonica (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  Given the importance of colour in the branding of goods and services to suggest and identify their source, under what conditions and circumstances may a single colour satisfy the legal requirements of being capable of ...
• An African jurisprudential perspective on land and property 

  Mogale, Mangoro Janine (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  The mini dissertation explores an African jurisprudential perspective on land and property. The investigation is situated in the historical context of colonisation and apartheid as well as the present post-1994 debates on ...
• The potential of tranformation constitutionalism to free people from apartheid spatial planning 

  Lucwaba, Sipumelele (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The purpose, of this mini dissertation is to understand South Africa as a country in a spatial crisis that leads to the entrapment of the black body in a social, political, economic and legally depressed state. The crisis ...
• The architecture of non-grievability : a critical race spatial analysis of the continuance of apartheid spatial planning into (post) apartheid South Africa 

  Goba, Nosipho Salazi (University of Pretoria, 2018)

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