- Title
- Discrimination against women under customary law in South Africa with reference to inheritance and succession
- Creator
- Mashalaba, Siyabulela Welcome
- Subject
- Inheritance and succession -- South Africa
- Subject
- Customary law -- South Africa
- Subject
- Sex discrimination -- South Africa
- Date Issued
- 2012
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA (Human Rights)
- Identifier
- vital:11099
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/505
- Identifier
- Inheritance and succession -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Customary law -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Sex discrimination -- South Africa
- Description
- In South Africa, it is evident that women are uniformed of their essential human rights, especially their inheritance and succession rights, including protection of such rights. Human rights are international norms that protect individuals everywhere from the states’ political, legal and social abuse. Human rights are entitlements which human beings have in order to enhance their human condition. They are the fundamental entitlements or minimum standards to be met for individual so that they live with dignity. This study focused on discrimination of women under customary law in South Africa with reference to inheritance and succession. The study validated the findings of other researchers on the impact of cultural practices on women’s rights to inheritance and succession. In addition the findings revealed that efforts t eliminate traditional practices, should foremost come from men and from communities that hold such destructive attitudes towards women. The outcomes and recommendations of this study would assist the government and other institutions to adopt effective measures to empower women and especially educate them so that they can assert and defend their human rights
- Format
- 79 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Law
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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