During times of armed conflict, disasters and forced migration many people tragically lose their lives and, depending on the circumstances, their fate might never be known to their families and loved ones.
The study of food law provides an ideal opportunity for transdisciplinary research and can contribute to the achievement of the University of Pretoria's research frontiers strategy.
The DRU undertook the project in collaboration with the Centre for Child Law and the Department of Public Law in UP’s Faculty of Law.
In a first of its kind study in South Africa, Wendy Carvalho-Malekane, lecturer in the Department of Humanities Education, researched how young adults in post-apartheid South Africa construct an identity, with the emphasis on individuals with a biracial heritage.
Prof James Ogude, Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers have been focusing on this African philosophy.
Did you know that legal migration from other Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries has increased almost tenfold since 1990 to over four million people per year? And that’s only individuals from the SADC who enter South Africa legally.
Violence against individuals with complex communication needs very often remains undisclosed. Unfortunately this unhappy state of events is sustained by various contributing factors such as the fact that the individuals often do not have the means of communication to disclose what happened to them.
Crimes committed against people with developmental and other disabilities are similar in scope to crimes committed against women, children and the elderly, and yet the victimisation of people with disabilities remains largely unaddressed.
"Education for all" has been the focus of international agencies for the past two decades. On a continent where "education for all" has been unattainable to date, South Africa has set itself the ambitious goal of attaining this by the internationally stipulated deadline of 2015. "Education for all" involves providing education to everyone of appropriate age, thereby satisfying everyone's...
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