The active and passive voting rights of convicted prisoners in South Africa and the United Kingdom

Magister Legum - LLM === The purpose of this mini-thesis is to assess the present position regarding prisoner disenfranchisement in South Africa from a human rights perspective, and to recommend reforms of South African electoral legislation as far as prisoners‘ voting rights are concerned.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bekeer, Cindy-Lee Neavera
Other Authors: Le Roux, Wessel
Language:en
Published: University of the Western Cape 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4455
Description
Summary:Magister Legum - LLM === The purpose of this mini-thesis is to assess the present position regarding prisoner disenfranchisement in South Africa from a human rights perspective, and to recommend reforms of South African electoral legislation as far as prisoners‘ voting rights are concerned.