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Glasgow to honour legal expert on women's rights

Public Law's Rashida Manjoo is to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow in November this year for her work on human rights and social justice.

Where SA law stands on 'naming and shaming'

Naming and shaming is a common tactic among activists, lobby groups and the media. The practice is under the microscope again after a list containing the names of 11 alleged rapists was released at Rhodes University.

UN experts with police at the Lookout Hill in Khayelitsha

UCT hosts UN expert group on city safety

Forty experts in urban safety recently gathered in Cape Town to discuss a draft guide to ensure safer cities in a globalised world.

Pierre de Vos at St Anne’s Diocesan College

Constitutional truths brought home to KZN learners

Public Law’s Pierre de Vos recently addressed 250 learners from a KZN school as part of the school’s Awareness Week programme, an initiative for the learners organised by the learners.

Focussing the public interest lens on IP law in Africa

Law Professor Caroline Ncube discussed her first solo book project with colleague Ada Ordor at its recent launch. Ncube described her contribution to the field of intellectual property as “public interest based discussion on Africa from Africa”.

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Sunday, 25 June 2017

Proportionate Income Differentials: A Long walk to Social Justice

In 1994 South Africans heroically avoided a racial war. In 2015 inequality and poverty now look like the poisoned fruits of freedom. In 2030 challenged by the vision of the National Development Plan, will they have avoided the war of the poisoned fruits? (Prof Njabulo Ndebele, Chairperson of the Board, Nelson Mandela Foundation 2016)

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Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - 12:15