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A politics of human rights – the right to rights as universal right to politics?
(University of the Free State, 2014)
Confronted by the charge of depoliticisation levelled at human rights frameworks and
interventions, I investigate the possibility of a politics of human rights at the core of
democratic politics. In doing so, I am guided ...
South Africa’s constitutional development: a matter of Machiavelli’s Prince and Hobbes’ Leviathan rather than Montesquieu’s Spirit of the laws?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-09)
The democratisation and constitutional development of South Africa from a dominant parliament to a new constitutional order with a supreme constitution, was a significant development in the country’s constitutional ...
The inoperative community of law students: rethinking the foundations of legal culture
(University of the Free State, 2014)
In this article I contemplate the possibility of a relationship between democracy and the
democracy to come experienced from within an inoperative community of law students.
The reason for this contemplation is to ascertain ...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Tripartite Alliance: a marriage of (in)convenience?
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012-06)
Since its formation in 1985, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) had played a
significant role in the political landscape of South Africa. From the start, COSATU appeared to be in
support of the then ...
Public participation in town-planning applications: Tlokwe Local Municipality as a case study
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, 2013)
English: Although public participation is deemed important in South Africa, negative perceptions of its legitimacy are widely acknowledged. Inclusive town-planning processes, as instruments to address inequality, have a ...
Fiscal crisis, social protest and state violence in Swaziland, 2009-2012
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2016)
By 2010, Swazi society was experiencing severe economic hardship since the country was experiencing the worse fiscal crisis in its history. These economic hardships were partly an aftermath of the 2008 world financial ...
Puo le demokrasi
(University of the Free State, 2003)
English: The concept of democracy places the power to choose in the hands of the majority of
a country’s voters over the age of eighteen and of sound mental health. Inherent in
ideal democratic choices is a proper grasp ...
Silence after violence and the imperative to ‘speak out’
(University of the Free State, 2015)
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Rethinking Marx rethinking the public
(University of the Free State, 2014)
This essay argues that the young Marx’s defence of press freedom in the repressive
Germany of his day is more important than the tradition of Orthodox Marxism
has generally allowed, and is best considered as a crucial ...
Changing local politics in South Africa: the power relationship between local government and the people
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
The South African Freedom Charter (1955) states that “The people shall govern” and the African
National Congress (ANC) (1991) stated in “Advance to national democracy” that “the immediate
issue on the agenda is the ...