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Shifting consciousness and challenging power: Women activists and the provision of HIV/AIDS services, pgs 158-176

Written by Mottiar, Shauna and Dubula, Vuyiseka

In 2003, the South African government shifted AIDS policy, making HIV treatment available in the public healthcare sector. The antiretroviral roll-out, while hailed as a success, has required continued activism to ensure genuine implementation. Women, particularly the poor, traditionally bear the brunt of the impact of HIV/AIDS socially and eco...

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Sustainable development and international economic law in Africa, pgs 133-157

Private regulation in the context of international sales contracts, pgs 27-53

An analysis of the duty to reasonably accommodate disabled employees: a comment on Jansen v Legal Aid South Africa, pgs, 109-132

Normative intersectionality in married women’s property rights in southern Nigeria, pgs 86-108

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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...