Pretoria Student Law Review 2021-15
Editor in chief: Phenyo Nomasonto Morweši Sekati
2021
ISSN: 1998-0280
Pages: 470
Print version: Available
Electronic version: Free PDF available
About the publication
To the authors, this year has, in many respects, been challenging with many of those challenges affecting students directly. We appreciate the dedicated efforts put into your submissions and your wholehearted cooperation throughout the entire process. Much appreciation is also extended to the reviewers who have selflessly committed to assisting the PSLR during the peer-review process. To all of the reviewers, your input, guidance, and recommendations are greatly appreciated.
Phenyo Nomasonto Morwesi Sekati
Editor-in-Chief
2020
Table of Contents
Editor’s note
Phenyo Sekati
Guardian’s contribution: Social justice and COVID-19 in the ‘new’ South Africa: Invoking Ramosean meditations in pandemic times
Ilana le Roux
Special section: Social Justice and COVID-19
Police and power in a pandemic: Reflections on the rise of police brutality during COVID-19 and its implications on social justice in South Africa
Mason du Plessis
The impact of COVID-19 on human rights: A critical analysis of the lawfulness of measures imposed by states during the pandemic under international law
Kyle Alex Cloete
Herd immunity or political power?
Samantha Smit
The defensibility of socio-economic rights in a state of disaster: A South African perspective
Ishmael Khayelihle Mbambo
Articles
The accessibility and effectiveness of South African civil lower courts
Llewelyn Curlewis & Delano Abdoll
The plight of refugees in South Africa
Abigail Emily Ashfield
An analysis of the applicable laws on the protection of traditional knowledge and cultural expressions in Namibia
Frieda Shifotoka
Future generations and the environment: A right to intergenerational equity under international law?
Felix R. Schroder
Why decolonisation and not transformative constitutionalism
Ntando Sindane
Dismantling racial ontology: Constitutional abolitionism as a solution to South Africa’s anti-blackness and white supremacy
Gudani Tshikota
The role of ubuntu in the law of contract
Pooja Pundit
A comparative analysis of the mandatory rule doctrine and its application in the South African Labour Court
Elisa Rinaldi
The imposition of common law in the interpretation and application of customary law and customary marriages
Celinhlanhla Magubane
Broken & unequal: The South African education system and the attainment of the right to basic education through litigation
Simon Mateus & Khalipha Shange
An overview of the regulation of cryptocurrency in South Africa
Zakariya Adam
School of court: The development of the right to basic education through litigation in South African courts
Abena Osei-Fofie & Nicholas Herd
Administrative justice and communal subsistence farming in foot- and-mouth disease control: The possible application of proportionality as a ground of review under the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act 3 of 2000
Lielie Viljoen & MP Fourie
Conservation crime and pangolin poaching: Tensions between customary use and conservation law
Nicola Irving