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The dynamic food procurement strategies of women living in Cape Town’s low-income areas
(2018)The combination of persistent levels of inequality and poverty, alongside the advent of rapid urbanisation, mean urban food insecurity is set to be one of the biggest development challenges of this century. As women play ...
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Chiral bands in 193Tl
(Jagiellonian University, 2017-03)Since the introduction of chirality in nuclei, the search for chiral candidates in different mass regions has been a hot topic for about two decades. At iThemba LABS, a new chiral symmetry region, the thallium isotopes with ...
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Rethinking strategic sustainability planning for the electricity sector in South Africa
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)A series of processes is now converging to force the issue of sustainability to drive South Africa’s low-carbon energy transitions. This raises the question of how a ‘sustainability transition’ framework can be conceptualised ...
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Optical aid for placing composite material (prepregs) in a mould
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)Increased industrial use of composite materials for manufacturing strong lightweight components stimulates endeavours for more efficient assembly methods. This study attempted to find an optimal method to provide optical ...
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Towards a flexible innovation process model assuring quality and customer needs
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018)Successful innovation projects require an adequate innovation management capability in organisations. This means a sufficiently rigorous, continuous, and goal-oriented management of innovation processes. The literature ...
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THE RIGHTS OF FOREIGNERS: DIGNITY, CITIZENSHIP AND THE RIGHT TO HAVE RIGHTS
(2013-01)This article examines the rights of foreign nationals in view of Hannah Arendt's thesis that human rights amount to little when severed from the rights of members of a concrete political community. It considers three ...
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Translating research into action : an international study of the role of research funders
(BioMed Central, 2018-05-24)Background: It is widely accepted that research can lead to improved health outcomes. However, translating research into meaningful impacts in peoples’ lives requires actions that stretch well beyond those traditionally ...
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Realization of the right to adequate food and the nutritional status of land evictees : a case for mothers/caregivers and their children in rural Central Uganda
(2018-05-24)Background: In developing countries like Uganda, the human right to adequate food (RtAF) is inextricably linked to access to land for households to feed themselves directly through production or means for its procuremen ...
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From dis-enclosure to decolonisation : in dialogue with Nancy and Mbembe on self-determination and the other
(MDPI, 2018)What might a sense of decolonisation (not)/be? Or, what comes after the logic of the coloniser? This question is at the centre of many debates in South Africa and extends to all countries worldwide who are faced with the ...
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The contours of a pedagogy of law in South Africa
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-03)Reform of legal education is currently a topic of debate in South Africa again. Reform in higher education can, however, be dangerous and counter-productive if it is driven purely by policy agendas and in the absence of ...
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The first-sale doctrine : parallel importation and beyond
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-08)In 2013, the United States (“US”) Supreme Court gave its judgment in Kirtsaeng v John Wiley & Sons Inc, which appeared to fundamentally change the US’ position in relation to copyright law and parallel importation. The ...
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Rethinking the Right to Vote
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-08)South African constitutional scholars have been puzzling for some time over a basic tension in the Constitutional Court’s voting rights jurisprudence. While some of its judgments show a commitment to a vigorous defence and ...
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The rationale for the imposition of non-financial obligations on apartment owners in a sectional title scheme
(Juta Law Publishing, 2015-03)The principal aims of sectional title schemes are to preserve the physical integrity and the pleasant appearance of the sectional title building and to strive for harmony in an intensified community where the individual ...
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Beyond UNCITRAL : the challenges of procurement reform implementation in Africa
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)Most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa have undergone some form of public procurement reform in the last two decades. This reform usually takes the form of the passage of new procurement regulation, which is usually ...
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The various policy options for the settlement of disputes in residential community schemes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)This contribution in honour of David Butler surveys the various policy options for the resolution of disputes in community schemes. The options are internal mechanisms, co-regulation, government regulation, a simplified ...
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Reflections on the concurrence of the remedies in terms of the reformed Pound legislation and the actio de pastu
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)A landowner who finds animals trespassing on his land has the following alternatives: he can chase the animals off the land; impound the animals; or institute the actio de pastu for monetary compensation for damage caused ...
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Deregistrasie sonder likwidasie van maatskappye en beslote korporasies ingevolge die 2008 Maatskappywet
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)It is practically desirable that inactive companies are removed from the companies register. This should also be the main reason for the deregistration of companies that have not gone through winding-up. However, procedures ...
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Addressing the issue in Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality in legislation
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)In Harvey v Umhlatuze Municipality 2011 1 SA 601 (KZP) ("Harvey") the High Court had to decide whether it was competent to order the re-transfer of expropriated property to the previous owner when the purpose for which the ...
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Alternative measures to reduce trial cases, private autonomy and "public interest" : some observations with specific reference to plea bargaining and economic crimes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)This note considers alternative measures to reduce trial cases as a strategy to enhance the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. The emphasis falls on economic crime. It is noted that alternative measures, ...
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The new gTLDs and the resolution of trade mark disputes
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)Following ICANN's decision to permit new top-level domains pursuant to its New gTLD Program, and the likely explosion in the number of top-level domains ("TLDs"), it was anticipated that there would be competing claims to ...
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A comparative perspective on the "joint-action rule" in the context of business trusts
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)The "joint-action rule" in South African trust law entails that all trustees must act jointly in order to bind the trust. Non-compliance with the rule will most often lead to the invalidity of a contract between the trustees ...
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Does method really matter? Reconsidering the role of common-law remedies in the eviction paradigm
(Juta Law Publishing, 2014-01)The new constitutional dispensation brought with it (inevitably) large scale deviations in the way remedies in the context of evictions are applied in modern South African law. This article examines how the sources of law ...
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Re-defining national sovereignty : the key to avoid constitutional reform? Reflections on the 2011 Green Paper on Land Reform
(Juta Law Publishing, 2012-01)The results of post-apartheid land reform in South Africa have for a substantial period of time prompted scholars to ask key questions about the ability of law to achieve social change. Change in this case translating into ...
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A critical analysis of the innovations introduced by the Sectional Titles Amendment Bill of 2010
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)The Sectional Titles Amendment Bill of June 2010 proposes to address gender equality, remove obsolete provisions, make technical adjustments, extend consumer protection and eliminate a substantial number of problems ...
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Transformative constitutionalism in a democratic developmental state
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)In order for socio-economic transformation to have a real impact on the lives of the poor and marginalised, meaningful participation in the development of law and policy as well as administrative decision-making, is required. ...
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Conceptualising "meaningful engagement" as a deliberative democratic partnership
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)Nearly four years ago the Constitutional Court created the concept of "meaningful engagement" in Occupiers of Olivia Road, Berea Township, and 197 Main Street, Johannesburg v City of Johannesburg 2008 3 SA 208 (CC). The ...
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Privatisation of the commons : water as a right; water as a commodity
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)This contribution seeks to propose an accountability framework for States and non-State actors involved in the provision and management of water services. The article contends that States have a legal obligation under ...
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Rental housing as adequate housing
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)Recently the government has emphasised the importance of rental housing as a form of housing accessible to the urban poor. The current landlord-tenant regime promotes equal bargaining power and contract-based tenure ...
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Redesigning the South African Unemployment Insurance Fund : selected key policy and legal perspectives
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)This contribution examines selected issues from a policy and legal perspective. Against the background of the broader social security reform agenda in South Africa and the vision of a comprehensive social security system, ...
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Constitutional perspectives on unemployment security and a right to work in South Africa
(Juta Law Publishing, 2011-01)The endemic problem of unemployment poses a serious challenge to the realisation of South Africa's constitutional goals and values. One of the most glaring gaps in the assistance provided to the unemployed in South Africa ...
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