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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Jurisprudence) by Title
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Northover, Roxanne Kayleigh
(University of Pretoria, 2019)
Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a contentious but highly topical phenomenon that occurs in South Africa. The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002 (the ‘MPRDA’) is responsible for much of the ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Niyi-Gafar, Oluwabunmi Lucy
(University of Pretoria, 2017)
Based on the assumption that water is a human right that the Nigerian government is obliged to fulfil, this thesis begins with a historical overview of the development of a human right to water. This description provides ...
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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 ...
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van der Walt, JJ Jacobus
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The fundamental problem identified and placed at the root of this thesis is inadequate social transformation. In this thesis three fundamental questions are answered. First, what is substantive equality, as developed by ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Roos, Lizelle
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
The main aim of this thesis is to expose and address some of the current problems of the civil litigation system with specific reference to the issue of access to justice. I will argue that there is a tension between the ...
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Imasogie, Mosunmola Oluwatoyin
(University of Pretoria, 2007-05-10)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Nyondo, James Mbowe
(University of Pretoria, 2011-05-27)
The various independent chiefdoms that make up present day Malawi had a new constitution imposed over all of them by the British government without their consent. This new superimposed constitution was never really embraced ...
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Jooste, Yvonne
(University of Pretoria, 2011-12-07)
This dissertation involves contemplations and reflections on a post-apartheid feminist jurisprudence. My contemplation of a feminist jurisprudence takes place within the broader search for a post-apartheid jurisprudence. ...
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Barnard, Alfred Jacobus
(University of Pretoria, 2007-06-19)
Apparently the existence of deepgoing antinomies in our system of contracts is an experience too painful to rise to the full level of our consciousnes. In the current transformative milieu, the South African law of contract ...
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Nyawo, Pamela
(University of Pretoria, 2013)
Section 217 of the Constitution of South Africa regulates the procurement of goods and
or services by any organ of state. Similarly, this section mandates state-owned
institutions to adhere to a procurement system that ...
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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 ...
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Miyar, Ghzal
(University of Pretoria, 2014)
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Van der Bijl, Charnelle
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-20)
The study undertaken is concerned with the reformulation of the common law crime of rape from a juridical and socio-psychological perspective. It is based on the premise that the common law definition of rape is insufficient. ...
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Bohler-Muller, Narnia
(University of Pretoria, 2007-06-15)
The underlying premise explored is whether the right to gender equality as interpreted and imposed within the confines of dominant western ideologies of liberal legalism could create the space for meeting the particular ...
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Le Roux, Wessel Badenhorst
(University of Pretoria, 2006-07-20)
Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document
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Prinsloo, Christiaan M.S.
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
For decades legal positivism has governed the interpretation and application of the
law in South Africa. This modernist utilisation of interpretative rules and the
application of the law as it is, rather than as it ought ...