South Africa:South Africa is one of the wealthiest and most developed nations on the African continent. It is famous for its deposits of gold and diamonds. The country has eleven official languages.Answer and Explanation: Civil law in any country, including South Africa, is law that does not...
Bantu civil courts in South AfricaThe State President is empowered by Section 12 of the Bantu Administration Act, 1927 (No. 38 of 1927, as amended), to confer upon any Bantu Chief or Headman both civil and criminal jurisdiction to hear cases between Bantu in the area over which such Chief...
Will the rise of the emerging economies portend just a broadening of the ‘great game’, the only result being a little more elbow room for developing countries in their engagement with the G-20 economies? Or will the Global South seize this opportunity to forge a new and more inclusive pa...
and the involvement of several internal and external actors, is a key factor in the continuation of the war," Sudan's acting Charge DÁffairs in South Africa, Dr. Nawal Ahmed Mukhtar, told a group of journalists this week. "This must stop so that the massacres and crimes...
From Supreme Court rulings and class actions to legislative reform and international conventions, we pick out the key themes and cases from across the year Corporate Crime Update, Spring 2019 Corporate Crime Update, Winter 2019 Corporate Crime Update, Autumn 2018 View all insights Civil...
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Frantz Fanon warned us that the future will not pity those men and women who possess the exceptional privilege of being able to speak the words of truth to their oppressors and have taken refuge in an attitude of passivity, of mute indifference and in some cases of ...
Through the EU-UNICEF programme, Uganda piloted the use of mobile technology which in some cases has seen entire villages and hospital settings move from negligible birth registration rates to almost 100 per cent coverage. This technology has been extended to Mozambique, Burki...
There’s a reason so many civil cases end up going into the song-and-dance of settlement offers before a judge is brought in. Not only is it much easier to work things out when you aren’t legally at one another’s throats, but it’s also a lot simpler to develop a win/win scen...
In some cases in South Asia (India and Bangladesh in particular) and elsewhere, the enclaves and exclaves were created by means of adverse possessions. Adverse possession is a manner of acquiring complete title to real estate or property as against all others, including the record owner, through...