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Title:Children: Some Perspectives on Their Legal Position and the Development of Indigenous Law
Author:Church, JoanISNI
Year:2003
Periodical:Anthropology Southern Africa
Volume:26
Issue:3-4
Pages:119-123
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:children
legal reform
children's rights
Politics and Government
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Abstract:This article considers the position of children in South Africa under the new constitutional dispensation, as seen in comparative perspective and in the light of present and proposed legislation and of indigenous law. This is done with a view to possible legal reform in the private and public domain. The article discusses relevant case law and suggests that the development of indigenous law might be effected in accordance with the concept of 'ubuntu' and the values entrenched in the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act 108 of 1996. 'Ubuntu' is seen as including, amongst others, the idea of group solidarity and the interdependence of members within the group. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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