JUDICIAL REVIEW IN SOUTH AFRICA AND INDIA: ADVANCING CONSTITUTIONALISM OR UNDUE ACTIVISM?

Transformative Constitutionalism in South Africa: 20 Years of Democracy

This article reflects on the transformative nature of South Africa’s Constitution, looking at the past 20 years of a widely celebrated democracy. The article discusses the successful entrenchment of institutional framework and challenges facing transformative constitutionalism (TC). South Africa’s history for the better part of the 20th century reveals a variety of historical phenomena ranging ...

Essential Drugs Production in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS): Opportunities and Challenges

The objective of this work is to elucidate various essential drugs in the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) countries. It discusses the opportunities and challenges of the existing biotech infrastructure and the production of drugs and vaccines in member states of the BRICS. This research is based on a systematic literature review between the years 2000 and 2014 of documents...

From “Rights” to “Ritual”: AIDS Activism in South Africa

In this article, I investigate how the moral politics of HIV/AIDS activism in South Africa is contributing toward new forms of citizenship that are concerned with both rights-based struggles and with creating collectively shared meanings of the extreme experiences of illness and stigmatization of individual HIV/AIDS sufferers. I argue that it is precisely the extremity of the “near death” exper...

Pharmacovigilance in India, Uganda and South Africa with Reference to WHO’s Minimum Requirements

Background Pharmacovigilance (PV) data are crucial for ensuring safety and effectiveness of medicines after drugs have been granted marketing approval. This paper describes the PV systems of India, Uganda and South Africa based on literature and Key Informant (KI) interviews and compares them with the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) minimum PV requirements for a Functional National PV Syste...

Judicial Activism in State Supreme Courts: Institutional Design and Judicial Behavior