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The Republic of South Africa

The authors gratefully acknowledge support for the preparation of this report from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. However, the views expressed and any errors or omissions are those of the authors and not of Sida.

Country Gender Profile: South Africa

After the transition to democracy in 1994, South Africa reached out to perpetrators of violence from all conflicting parties by giving amnesty to those who fully disclosed their politically motivated crimes. This 2007 volume provides a comprehensive analysis of South Africa's amnesty scheme in its practical and normative dimensions. Through empirical analysis of over 1000 amnesty decisions made by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the study measures the scheme against its stated goals of truth recovery, victim empowerment and perpetrator accountability. It also explores normative questions raised by the absence of punishment. Highlighting the distinctive nature of South Africa's conditional amnesty as an exceptional 'rite of passage' into the new, post-conflict society, it argues that the amnesty scheme is best viewed as an attempt to construct a new 'justice script' for a society in transition, in which a legacy of politically motivated violence is being addressed.

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Transitional amnesty in South Africa

A study of practices in the alternatives to corporal punishment strategy being implemented in selected primary schools in Buffalo city metro municipality: implications for school leadership

The nature and effect of section 56 of the Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 and the uncertainties surrounding it.

By referring to the relevant volume of "The Law of South Africa" the practitioner is able to check a point quickly and easily without recourse to time-consuming research. The work's matter of fact statement of the law eschews speculative disgressions and spares the tedium of having to sift through a text to distinguish between the writer's opinion of what the law should be and the law as actually applied. Furthermore, the work's title scheme ensures that all the relevant statutory material is assembled in one place, saving the user the task of working through a labyrinth of common law and statutory provisions. In addition to a cumulative index volume and one for a cumulative table of cases, there are annual cumulative supplements and a frequent updating service. The titles in the encyclopaedia are listed alphabetically and divided into numbered paragraphs, each of which deals with one aspect of the law concerned. The subject matter is further divided by sub-headings, and running heads are inserted over each page. Moreover, each volume is equipped with a table of statutes and cases, a bibliography and an index. Each title is compiled by one or more jurists, all of whom are experts in their field. Academics, practitioners and judges have all contributed, and Butterworth staff members have sub-edited their text to guarantee the accuracy of case citations, statutory reference and quotations from judgements and ensure uniformity of treatment throughout the work.

W. A. Joubert

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