SASCA 2019

Constitutionalism and the economy in Africa 18-20 September 2019

Summary report

The Seventh Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA) 2019, jointly organised by the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in partnership with the South African Research Chair (SARChI) on Multilevel Government, Law and Policy at Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape,  and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa, based in Kenya took place in Stellenbosch from 18-20 September 2019. The theme for the seminar was; Constitutionalism and the Economy in Africa.

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Date: Monday, 30 September 2019
Time: 14h00 - 16h00 (arrival and registration from 13h00)
Venue: Conference Room 2, Future Africa, University of Pretoria
RSVP: 26 September to Sibongiseni Tula (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), copying Thandiwe Matthews (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and Kwanele Pakati (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

SASCA-2018

The Seventh Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2019) will be held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Wednesday 18 September to Friday 20 September 2019. As in the past, SASCA 2019 will be jointly organised by the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) of the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria, and the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in partnership with the South African Research Chair in Multilevel Government, Law and Policy (SARChI) at the Dullah Omar Institute, University of the Western Cape and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Rule of Law Program for Sub-Saharan Africa.

SASCA programme s

13 Sept 2019

You are cordially invited to attend two public lectures at STIAS organised as part of the Seventh Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa, (SASCA 2019), 18-20 September 2019.

Former South African Minister of Finance, Mr Trevor Manuel will make the keynote address on Wednesday 18 September from 10h00 to 11h00.

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Jihadi-George s

In the last few days of its sitting before the summer recess the UK Supreme Court heard arguments in the matter of Maha el Gizouli v. Secretary of State for the Home Department. This case was appealed from the High Court, where a judge had earlier ruled the Home Secretary had acted lawfully in passing communications intelligence gathered by the United Kingdom to prosecutors in the United States in order to facilitate their case against Mr El Shafee Elsheikh (known as "Jihadi George", one of the Islamic State terrorist cell called the “Beatles”).