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Failure to recognise a third gender option: Unfair discrimination or justified limitation? pgs 90-120

Written by Rachel Sloth-Nielsen

This article seeks to answer the question of whether the State’s failure to recognise a third gender option for transgender non-binary individuals amounts to unfair discrimination or whether this limitation could be justified. After a brief conceptual framework is discussed, the article looks at the right to equality as found in section 9 of the...

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COVID-19 and elections in Ethiopia: Exploring constitutional interpretation by the House of the Federation as an exit strategy, pgs 64-89

The double punch of workplace bullying/harassment leading to depression: Legal and other measures to help South African employers ward off a fatal blow, pgs 24-63

Promoting the quality of legal aid in South Africa through better co-ordination of service provision, pgs 1-23

eThekwini’s discriminatory by-laws: Criminalising homelessness, pgs 468-511

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Understanding, protecting, promoting and entrenching rule of law: What individuals, constitutional institutions, state entities and civil society must do

Written by Justice Mahomed Solomon Navsa

The gains of the struggle against apartheid must be consolidated through the establishment of the rule of law: this was the central message in Justice Navsa’s address as speaker at the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture, delivered at UWC Faculty of Law on 24 October 2019. In an age where the Constitution is under attack from many sides, Justice Navsa emphasised the importance of fulfilling the promises of that Constitution, not only by government and public officials, but by each citizen...