LibGuides: Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: South Africa

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Jutastat
Jutastat provides access to South African (SA) statutes, SA Law Reports and appellate decisions, as well as statutes and caselaw from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Jurisdiction: Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Namibia; Tanzania; Zambia

SAFLII
SAFLII is a free resource providing access to national legislation and case law. Legislation includes both original acts (as enacted) and a selection of acts consolidated acts. Case law coverage varies by court.

Oxford Constitutional Law
Oxford Constitutions of the World contains fully-translated English-language versions of all of the world's constitutions, accompanied by individual commentaries and supplementary materials.

Jurisdiction: Global
World Constitutions Illustrated
This library enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and many more. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.

Jurisdiction: Global

We the People - The Making of the Constitution
The Making of the Constitution digital archive contains records relating to the development of South Africa’s constitution. Included are early drafts of the constitution as well as the records of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) and the Constitutional Assembly.

Laws of South Africa - Consolidated Legislation, University of Pretoria
Contains current "in force" and consolidated (as amended) Acts of Parliament, point-in-time and historic texts of Acts, plus regulations. Acts and regulations are PDF and constantly updated. Regulations not in full text may be requested. The project is the work of the Oliver R. Tambo Law Library, University of Pretoria, in partnership with the Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) and the Constitutional Court. The database is a work in progress and does not contain all Acts yet.

Jutastat
Jutastat provides access to South African (SA) statutes, SA Law Reports and appellate decisions, as well as statutes and caselaw from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Jurisdiction: Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Namibia; Tanzania; Zambia

Statutes of the old South African Colonies (1714-1910)
This collection of historical statutes from the University of Pretoria contains the annual statutes from Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Free State, Orange River Colony, ZAR and Transvaal.

Hansard
Hansard is the verbatim record of the parliamentary proceedings. Hansard records are available online for both the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces dating back to June 1999.
Parliamentary Monitoring Group
The Parliamentary Monitoring Group is a NGO dedicated to collecting and disseminating information from all Parliamentary committees. Records date back to 1998. PMG also provides email alerts for new committee meeting reports and documents, new bills, request for submissions, ministry media briefings and speeches.

Jutastat
Jutastat provides access to South African (SA) statutes, SA Law Reports and appellate decisions, as well as statutes and caselaw from Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia.

Jurisdiction: Botswana; South Africa; Zimbabwe; Namibia; Tanzania; Zambia

Constitutional Court Judgments
The Constitutional Court Judgments database contains Constitutional Court decisions dating back to 1995. Since 2002, pleadings and other court filings are also available.

South African Treaty Register
The South African Treaty Register provides electronic access to South African treaties and agreements dating back as far as 1654.
The South African Cyber Treaties Series
Provides a comprehensive and up to date list of treaties South Africa has entered into, with, where possible, links to full text versions, as well as to ratification information.

The treaty series is based primarily on the United Nations Multilateral Treaties, and is arranged according to the categories found in the United Nations Treaty Series. Several additional topics, e.g. intellectual property and civil aviation, have also been included.

Update: Researching South African Law, GlobaLex
By Amanda Barratt and Pamela Snyman, update by Salona Lutchman

Materials will be located in B2 North (map), with call numbers beginning with KTL.

Index to South African Periodicals
Online entries date back to 1942. The database contains indexed articles from more than 680 South African periodicals.
Human Sciences Research Council Press
South Africa's open access publisher committed to the dissemination of high quality social science research based publications, in print and electronic form. Many recently published books are available at this site for free download--one can download a table of contents, an index, a chapter or an entire book. One can browse all titles (alphabetically); browse by category (such as: "Religious Studies"; "Securities Studies"); or use the search feature. Because there is no "Law" category to browse, you might wish to use the search feature. Newly published titles are also highlighted on the main page of this website.
JutaLaw
Subscription includes access to law from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania and Zambia. IP-Access for NYU Law users; access NYU Law subscription through Julius link above.