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BOOK - John Dugard: REVIEW - Confronting Apartheid

11 Jun 2019

Apart from the many speeches and lectures he gave Technical Advisor to the in defense of democracy and the rule of law over almost 30 years before the Constitutional Assembly end of apartheid, he wrote the most luminous and eloquent account of the where the negotiations abuse of law by the apartheid regime in 1978, Human Rights and the South for South Africa's interim African Legal Order – still t. [...] The book documents the creation of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) in the late 1970’s. [...] Turning to the occupied territories, Dugard refers to the definition of apartheid in international law, particularly the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid and the 1998 Rome Statute of the International 43 DENNIS DAVIS Court of Justice. [...] Turning to the third condition, he writes ‘the primary function of the Israeli civil and military authorities in the OPT (occupied territories) is to insulate and privilege Jewish settlors and to ensure that Palestinians intrude as little as possible on the lives of the settlors’ (230). [...] He then writes that as the contested land between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River is the land of miracles, a similar miracle will happen and a settlement that does justice to all the competing parties will be found.
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South Africa