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Perverting the past in the present
Perverting the past in the present 18 May 2025 - 00:00 By Christopher Gevers and Tendayi Achiume The decision by the United States to classify white South Africans as “refugees” fleeing “unjust racial discrimination” is absurd, illegal and dangerous. The claim that white South Africans face racial persecution is a perversion of the past and the present, as well of “refugee” status under the 1951 Refugee Convention and international law...
How to justify white land grabs
16 February 2025 - 00:00 John Buchan’s Prester John (1910) – one of the most widely-read colonial romance novels, set in South Africa where Buchan had served as a private secretary to Lord Milner – ends with an odd detail for a story written for young boys: the protagonist, a white Scotsman, liquidates his stolen treasure by selling “[t]he whole of [the] stones … to De Beers”, on the basis that if he “had placed them on the open market I should have upset the delicate equipoise of diamond...
Justice at the world court
A little under 60 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr insisted that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”. For Palestinians, like black South Africans and ‘South West Africans’ before them, that arc seems especially long.
SA, International Law and stopping the coming tragedy
The siege of Gaza is not just a humanitarian catastrophe — with over two million lives at stake — it is an international crime. It comes amid an escalation over the past three weeks that has produced a grim list of international crimes, expanding in degree and kind daily; in the context of the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands that, as of this year, will have lasted as long as the formal implementation of apartheid in South Africa.
Putin between the devil, the detail, and the ICC
Putin between the devil, the detail, and the ICC What has gone missing in the 'fog of law' is any serious discussion of what it might mean to arrest a president in the middle of a war 30 April 2023 - 00:00 By CHRISTOPHER CARL GEVERS In 1885 one of the first issues of what would become the South African Law Journal declared: “In this Colony ... no lawyer can afford to be without a sound acquaintance with ... international law.” ..
Slavery and International Law
Hostname: page-component-789cc574b8-dcfpl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2023-04-17T09:21:27.369Z Has data issue: false Feature Flags: { "useRatesEcommerce": false } hasContentIssue false Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2023 Rights & Permissions[Opens in a new window] Extract The history of slavery and international law remains largely unwritten.
Hiding in plain sight: Black Panther, international law and the ‘development frame’
Keywords International Law, Development Studies, TWAIL, Postcolonial Studies, Law and Literature, Black Studies Abstract This paper aims to explore the ‘troubling antinomies’ of the 2018 film Black Panther. It will begin by revealing the film’s entanglements with the ‘collective fantasies’ of ‘the West’, and those of its international lawyers and ‘development’ technocrats in particular, through its reliance on ‘lost world’ genre typified by H.
Black Agenda Report
U.S. presidents routinely violate international law and the United Nations Charter. Yet every year they appear before that body and proclaim American innocence. It takes a special kind of hubris for a president of the United States to speak at the United Nations, the place where international law is supposed to be upheld and defended.
Colonial Legal Imaginaries | Southern Literary Futures
Featuring Dr Debolina Dutta, Jindal Global Law School; Christopher Gevers, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Dr Luis Gómez Romero, University of Wollongong; and Dr Honni van Rijswijk, University of Technology Sydney. Literary imaginaries have been deeply implicated in European colonialism since Thomas More first conceived that ‘prototype of the settler colony’, Utopia (1516). Yet speculative fiction, centred on the rendering of an ‘unknown world’ or terra nullius, has a far longer history than that.
International law and ‘European civilisation’
In 1946, shortly after putting the human rights gloss on the UN Charter’s Preamble, Jan Smuts bemoaned the fact that the “noble experiment” of South Africa – as “a little epic of European civilisation on a dark continent” – was under threat from the claims for racial equality by emergent Third World states. A few weeks ago, the enduring understanding of South Africa as a threatened outpost of the West was publicly dramatised as the Ukrainian flag was projected on to the Cape Town City Hall.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Panther, International Law and the “Development Frame”
Osgoode Home > Osgoode Digital Commons > Journals > OHLJ > Vol. 59 > Iss. 1 (2022) Abstract This article explores the “troubling antinomies” of the 2018 film Black Panther and its entanglements with the collective fantasies of the West—and those of international lawyers and development technocrats in particular—through its reliance on the “lost world” genre, as typified by H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines and John Buchan’s Prester John.
Eurocentric takes on law do us no favours
“Many successive administrations of the South African government have upheld a policy which has now come to be denounced internationally as a crime against humanity.
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