Faculty of Law: Recent submissions
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Parting the long grass: Public International law and the right to self determination
(University of Zimbabwe Student Law Review Journal, 2016-05)The right to self-determination is perhaps one of the most fundamental group rights entrenched, espoused and conferred by various international legal instruments. However, it is also axiomatic that the right to self-determination ... -
Chilling freedom of expression to the bone with a chilling offence: Case note on State v Chimakure, Kahiya & ZimInd Publishers (Pvt) Ltd Constitutional Application No. S-247-09; Judgment No S-14-13
(University of Zimbabwe Student Law Review Journal, 2016-05)This case note examines the reasoning of the Supreme Court leading to its conclusion that s 31(a)(iii) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (the “Criminal Law Code”) is unconstitutional and ... -
Criminal Law Defences and the Right to Life in the New Constitution
(University of Zimbabwe Student Law Review Journal, 2016-05)This article explores the status of defences to criminal liability for causing the death of another person in the light of the nature of the right to life guarantee in section 48 of the 2013 Constitution. -
A socio-legal analysis of the harassment of women by bus or taxi rank marshals on the basis of their dress in Harare, Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)In its General Recommendation Number 19, the CEDAW Committee stated that violence against women is a form of discrimination since it violates their right to equality. The Committee recommended states to take legislative ... -
A critical examination of the use of mediation as a tool for the realisation of women’s access to justice in property cases in the legal aid sector, Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This dissertation examines the use of mediation as an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) method in property cases in the provision of legal aid. Mediation is employed as a counter strategy to expensive litigation for ... -
An analysis of the impact of perennial water problems on time and economic affordability for women working outside the home in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
(2016-04)Every Zimbabwean has the right to safe and potable water and for women the right to water is intrinsically linked with their lives and the realisation of this right ensures for them the right to a secure livelihood. They ... -
The civil procedure in the Magistrates Court of Zimbabwe: A denial of justice to self actors?
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This study investigates the challenges self actors, known in other jurisdiction as self representing litigants, when bringing their cases before the Magistrates Court or defending themselves in the Magistrates Court. In ... -
Speaking the unspeakable! Interrogating the rights and legal recognition of intersex persons in Kenya
(University of Zimbabwe, 2014-04)An intersex person is one whose biological sex cannot be classified clearly as either male or female. This ambiguity may be anatomical, hormonal, gonadal or chromosomal. Intersex births are estimated at between 1.7% (Nthumba, ... -
Peadophilia not ‘child marriage’: A critical analysis of ‘child marriages’ in the apostolic sects in Zimbabwe
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This research interrogates and critically analyzes the issue of ‘child marriages’ in two major Apostolic sects in Zimbabwe, namely, Johanne Marange and Johanne Masowe, the major objective being to unearth the root causes ... -
Towards a holistic approach to the legal aid system in Zimbabwe: Challenges indigent women face in instituting proceedings and enforcing judgments in civil matters
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This research, carried out by a legal aid lawyer with the government’s Legal Aid Directorate, seeks to highlight the various challenges which are faced by indigent women as they access justice through the legal aid system. ... -
Challenges facing women in accessing credit from the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission of Zambia: The case of cross border traders
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This research critically analyses the extent to which a government organisation, the Citizens Economic Empowerment Commission of Zambia (CEEC) established by the CEE Act, empowers the country’s women Cross Border Traders ... -
A critical investigation into how the corroborative evidence ‘rule’ in rape and defilement cases traumatises and violates the rights of women and girls who are victims of rape and defilement in Zambia: A study carried out in Lusaka city of Zambia
(University of Zimbabwe, 2016-04)This study investigates how the corroborative evidence or cautionary ‘rule’ (in reality, a practice that has hardened into a ‘rule’ as a result of judicial interpretation) in sexual offences, such as rape and defilement, ... -
Longing for the wisdom of King Solomon : Custody and the best interests of the child concept
(University of Zimbabwe, Faculty of Law, 2013-06)The best interests of the child test has been applied by courts in Zimbabwe and elsewhere to determine which parent should have custody of a child. Some states in the USA have come up with laws that ... -
Challenges faced by women in unregistered customary law unions
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Freedoms of association and of assembly: some international and comparative perspectives
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Women as offenders – the social and legal circumstances of women who commit crimes: A case study of selected prisons in Malawi
(2013-02-06)This study was conducted in three major prisons in Malawi (Zomba, Maula and Chichiri) between October 2003 and February 2004. It focused on establishing the social and legal circumstances that have shaped the condition ... -
Women's access to potable water and sanitation as a human right. A case study of Alaska and Shackleton settlements in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe
(2012-08-24)The residential areas of Alaska and Shackleton are located 14 and 26 kilometres respectively from Chinhoyi. Chinhoyi falls within Mashonaland West province of Zimbabwe. The two are former copper mine settlements to the ... -
“A CASE OF CULTURE GONE AWRY”: AN INVESTIGATION OF FEMALE INITIATION CEREMONIES AND NYAU DANCE VIGILS ON THE RIGHTS OF TEENAGE GIRLS TO EDUCATION AND SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONGST MIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN NORTON, ZIMBABWE
(2012-08-02)This dissertation focuses on the harm suffered by teenage girls who, often forced into early marriages by poverty, must first engage in the customary practices of initiation ceremonies followed by participation in highly ... -
A LESSON IN PRACTICALITIES: PROVISION AND DELIVERY OF HEALTH TO WOMEN IN THE TANZANIAN INFORMAL SECTOR VIA THE NATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY FUND (NSSF)
(2012-08-02)Women in Tanzania’s informal sector, a large proportion of the population, remain without health insurance in breach of their right to enjoy such protection in terms of local, regional and international HR instruments ...
