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Ice Raids Bear A Disturbing Resemblance To The “Pass Raids” Of Apartheid, Penelope Andrews
Ice Raids Bear A Disturbing Resemblance To The “Pass Raids” Of Apartheid, Penelope Andrews
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Jail Time For South African Woman Using Racist Slur Sets New Precedent, Penelope Andrews, Chantelle Feldhaus, René Koraan
Jail Time For South African Woman Using Racist Slur Sets New Precedent, Penelope Andrews, Chantelle Feldhaus, René Koraan
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A Bittersweet Heritage: Learning From The Making Of South African Legal Culture, Stephen Ellmann
A Bittersweet Heritage: Learning From The Making Of South African Legal Culture, Stephen Ellmann
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This essay responds to Martin Chanock's argument that race tainted the entire enterprise of South African judging. It seeks to understand how that could have been so, and looks to such driving forces as whites' guilt, denial, identity-building, self-protection, and legitimation for explanations. Then it asks whether an institution so tainted should now be altogether abandoned as part of the rebuilding of post-apartheid South Africa. The essay answers that much should be changed, but that the existence of a judiciary laying claim to a special expertise and responsibility in interpreting law and protecting rights a key heritage of the old …
Perspectives On Brown: The South African Experience, Penelope Andrews
Perspectives On Brown: The South African Experience, Penelope Andrews
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In this paper the author examines the lessons of Brown v. Board of Education for the South African struggle for racial equality, South Africa's constitutional transition, and the significance of Brown in pursuing the right to education in South Africa. The author concludes that although Brown was of tremendous symbolic value to South Africans, the South African constitutional framework, negotiated in the early 1990s, reflected global human rights developments more substantially than it did the American civil rights struggle. This is demonstrated by the mandate of the South African Constitution to consider international law and by the limited references to …
Reparations For Apartheid's Victims: The Path To Reconciliation?, Penelope Andrews
Reparations For Apartheid's Victims: The Path To Reconciliation?, Penelope Andrews
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Justice In A Post-Apartheid South Africa, Penelope Andrews
Justice In A Post-Apartheid South Africa, Penelope Andrews
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