Mapping Law and Development from African Perspectives: An Overview

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-257
Author(s):  
Ada Ordor ◽  
Faizel Ismail
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Law And Development ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Law ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Different Parts

Abstract This piece provides an insight into various contributions made by participants at the Law and Development Conference 2017. Participants converged in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2017 from institutions in different parts of Africa, as well as from other continents to deliberate on the theme of law and development from African perspectives. Over six panels of presentations, contributors wove a collective tapestry of reflections, critiques, debates and ideas showing the intersectionality of different fields of law in constructing, shaping and re-defining multiple development pathways for various constituencies. These discourses present a matrix of needful conditions, content and uses of law for its optimal application to development processes in and for the continent of Africa.

scholarly journals Private Archives in South Africa: Their Protection and Access with Particular Reference to the now Defunct Lutheran Theological Institute Library and Archives

Atlanti ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Francis Garaba
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Enabling Environment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Subsequent Loss ◽  
The Law ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Insight Into

This treatise is a case study that provides an insight into the status of private archives in South Africa with regards to their protection and access provisions. The paper is based on the author’s experiences as a manuscript librarian at the now defunct Lutheran Theological Institute (LTI) Library and Archives and research on faith-based archives which this institution was endowed with. The thesis of this paper is that records and archives legislation in South Africa as far as it applies to private archives is lethargic and not comprehensive enough to provide an enabling environment for their stewardship which is leading to loss of documentary heritage. The demise of this institution and the subsequent loss of the collection is testimony. In consequence, faith based collections (religious archives) need to be legislated like their counterparts public archives for protection and access in terms of the law.

scholarly journals TO BE BLACK AND ALIVE: A STUDY OF THE INHERENT RACISM IN THE TERTIARY EDUCATION SYSTEM IN POST-1994 SOUTH AFRICA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea L. Swanepoel
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Education System ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
University System ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
Insight Into

Through this paper, I aim to disprove the claim that knowledge, academic thought and societal discourse are neutral and objective, as well as explore links between transformation of the university system, the teaching of law and society in general. I argue that the constitution has failed at achieving a ‘free, equal and unified’ South Africa despite its objectives, and that the examination of the law with a critical approach of its racially charged aspects will offer some insight into addressing deep colonial biases.12 This will be done through examining the various arguments surrounding Eurocentrism and white supremacy in academia, society and the law.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

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