LCP4804 Assignment 1 Quiz 2025 | March 2025

LCP4804 Assignment 1 | QUIZ 2025

1. choose the statement that aligns with the court’s sentiments in the case of Mabuza v Mbatha 2003 (7) BCLR 43 (C)

a. The Act was part of a comprehensive exclusionary system of administration imposed on Africans, ostensibly to avoid exposing them to a result which, ‘to the Native mind’, would be ‘both startling and unjust.

b. The royal family must, within a reasonable time after the need arises for the position of a king or a queen to be filled, and with regard to the applicable customary law.

c. to say that [African law must not be opposed to the principles of public policy and natural justice] is fundamentally flawed as it reduces African Law which is practised by the vast majority in this country) to foreign law – in Africa.

d. Section 23 cannot escape the context in which it was conceived. It is part of an Act which
was specifically crafted to fit in with notions of separation and exclusion of Africans from
the people of ‘European’ descent.