Essays on South Africa

Women still face a number of challenges in Southern Africa when it comes to empowerment. Rights, the law and other programs though existing have failed to help women. Most of these women just just carry unkept promises written in black and white. Surrounded by the...

South Africa’s Constitution is not critical in laying the foundation for a diverse, democratic and free Rainbow Nation. Our constitution is the supreme law that provides the legal foundation for the existence of the republic, sets out the rights and duties of its citizens and...

Surprisingly, to be a saint one has to have heroic virtue. Nelson Mandela’s life displayed heroic virtue, so the Vatican should begin the process of canonizing him. Nelson Mandela had some tough times growing up. Nelson Mandela started out always angry and suffered from depression...

According to C. Wright Mills (1959), the Sociological Imagination refers to the ability to understand that one’s own issues are not merely caused by one’s owns beliefs and thoughts, but by society and its structures. An issue that many people, including myself, face and are...

Section 25 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (the Constitution) provides two ways in which the state may interfere with property rights, namely deprivation (section 25(1)) and expropriation (section 25(2)). As indicated by section 25(1) property may just be denied as...

Segment twenty five of the South African Constitution strikes a delicate harmony between the enthusiasm of existing property mortgage holders and furthermore the interests of society as a full. Because of property might be a social savvy, because of the greater part of South Africans...

Section 25(1) no one may be deprived of property except in terms of law of general application and no law may permit arbitrary deprivation of property. Deprivation restrict the owners use and enjoyment of property in public interest without necessarily taking property away. In deprivations...