Author: John Middleton
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 628
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged alphabetically. In addition to biographies, extensive country information (primarily postindependence), and historical events, the encyclopedia treats general topics in articles such as agriculture, political systems, and religion and ritual.
Author: Murray Faure
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1996-08-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0857026089
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Republic of South Africa (RSA) held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. They were a highly visible signal that the RSA is really moving from the era of apartheid towards a democratic constitutional state. The process is an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms. The contributors to this book, leading South African political scientists, discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the RSA′s political and legal institutions. They address various aspects of constitutional design and their interactions with social forces. They examine the new constitution, the roles of president and executive, the electoral, party and parliamentary systems, and the Constitutional Court. They look at the public service, at questions of labour and corporatism, at the RSA′s changing external relations and at the position of the armed forces. The new government′s Reconstruction and Development Programme, of which so much is expected, is seen to be particularly vulnerable to the pull of opposing forces.
Author: Peter Joyce
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This compact but wide-ranging reference work contains essential information on more than 1,400 South Africans, famous and infamous, who have featured prominently in the country's annals. The entries are fully cross-referenced and encompass all fields of activity, both past and present.
Author: Lebohang Nthongoa
Publisher:
Published: 2015-06-26
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781320595803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Book about different kinds of families in South Africa.
Author: Hugh Chisholm
Publisher:
Published: 1911
Total Pages: 1116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Author: Jacqueline Heaton
Publisher: Kluwer Law International
Published: 2022-11-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789403549132
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this concise exposition and analysis of the essential elements of law with regard to family relations, marital property, and succession to estates in South Africa covers the legal rules and customs pertaining to the intertwined civic status of persons, the family, and property. After an informative general introduction, the book proceeds to an in-depth discussion of the sources and instruments of family and succession law, the authorities that adjudicate and administer the laws, and issues surrounding the person as a legal entity and the legal disposition of property among family members. Such matters as nationality, domicile, and residence; marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; adoption and guardianship; succession and inter vivos arrangements; and the acquisition and administration of estates are all treated to a degree of depth that will prove useful in nearly any situation likely to arise in legal practice. The book is primarily designed to assist lawyers who find themselves having to apply rules of international private law or otherwise handling cases connected with South Africa. It will also be of great value to students and practitioners as a quick guide and easy-to-use practical resource in the field, and especially to academicians and researchers engaged in comparative studies by providing the necessary, basic material of family and succession law.