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

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Date

2014

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University of the Western Cape

Abstract

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.

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Magister Legum - LLM

Keywords

Democracy, The right to vote, Prisoners, South Africa

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