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Browsing Theses and Dissertations (Jurisprudence) by Type "Dissertation"
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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-07-21)Please read the abstract on p140-142 of this dissertation
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This poem tells the heart wrenching story of the plight of the rhinoceros.1 Hughes paints a picture of the powerful rhinoceros who is disappearing. Vanishing really quickly due to the poaching epidemic. As a result all ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-12-11)No abstract is provided. See content pages in the section 00front for short overviews for each chapter H 55/th
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(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 ...
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Investigating the gap between law's promises and rural women's lived reality : a case for narratives (University of Pretoria, 2013-01-09)In a country cumbered with a legacy of strife, authoritarianism, repression and injustice, the right to be vindicated and assert your rights is extremely important. Karl Klare described our constitution as a transformative ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2010-11-01)AFRIKAANS: Gebore in 1812 en getroud in 1833, het Jan Viljoen in die Kaapkolonie gebly tot in 1843, toe hy en sy gesin na die Transoranje verhuis het. Daar word hy 'n republikein, en bring hy in 1846 as gevolg van botsings ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2013)
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‘n Tentatiewe gemeenskap en die demokrasie wat moet kom – ‘n regsfilosofiese ondersoek (Afrikaans) (University of Pretoria, 2012-06-01)This dissertation contemplates the possibility of a relationship between democracy and the democracy to come experienced from within an inoperative community of law students. The reason for this contemplation is to ascertain ...
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(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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)
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(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 ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)This study contends that time, narrative and justice cannot be separated from one another. One always demands that the other two also be considered. If we accept that law should be held accountable to a higher ethical ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2009-10-02)Joining in the search for a post-apartheid South African jurisprudence, this dissertation departs from transformative constitutionalism, as formulated by Karl Klare. Transformative constitutionalism is a long-term project ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)No abstract available
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(University of Pretoria, 2012)In this dissertation I illustrate the existence of anthropocentric social and legal configurations that are maintained through the embodiment of a belief system in which animals occupy a space as sacrificial beings, and ...
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