Mangoes, papayas, and litchis processed by canning, freezing, and 7 irradiation were analyzed for their ascorbic acid, carotene, and sugar content. Both experimentally and commercially canned fruits were used as well as samples frozen for up to 3 months and irradiated with doses at least 1.25 kGy higher than those recommended for commercial irradiation. Chemical changes due to irradiation were generally small, amounting to losses of between 0 and 15%. In comparison, changes due to freezing and heat processing were considerable; losses in the order of 50 to 70% were recorded.
This essay takes a look at the historic restoration that bequeathed this country and its people a prototypical, justiciable Constitution. The advent of constitutional democracy in South Africa went hand in hand with an about-turn in the interpretation of enacted law-texts (including the Constitution) and a critical interrogation of certain dominant beliefs about the interpretation of law in general and enacted law in particular. Hitherto mostly unnamed or unlabelled (but not entirely alien) interpretive strategies pursued and developed by users of the Constitution are discussed, concentrating mainly on the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court. Central to the author's approach is an acknowledgement of the decisive actuality of an interpreter's theoretical position becoming visible through (interpretive) leitmotivs. These recur as keynote or defining ideas, motifs or topoi lending direction to specific instances of construing law. Four leitmotivs pertinent to certain constellations of events in constitutional interpretation are discussed and their applicability and utility assessed, drawing on examples from constitutional case-law. The leitmotivs are: (i) transitional constitutionalism; (ii) transformative constitutionalism; (iii) monumental constitutionalism; and (iv) memorial constitutionalism. (i) and (ii) belong together as (A) programmatic leitmotivs and (iii) and (iv) as (B) commemorative leitmotivs. The author concludes that, although scouting out and engaging with leitmotivs call for profound reading and for text analysis of a sort with which "logical" jurists are not always too comfortable, the said endeavours have the potential to be exceptionally rewarding.
Judges involved in constitutional adjudication often engage in comparative analyses of foreign cases. The judges of South Africa's Constitutional Court [hereinafter Constitutional Court] do so, too. The phenomenon has been given many names such as “transjudicialism,” “transjudicial communication,” “constitutionalist dialogue,” “judicial globalization,” “constitutional cross-fertilization,” “transnational contextualization,” “globalization of judgment,” “globalization of national courts,” “constitutional borrowing,” “constitutional comparativism,” and “judicial comparativism.” All these terms have merit, especially within their appropriate context, but for the purposes of this contribution we will use the term “comparative constitutional jurisprudence” to name the phenomenon we wish to describe and discuss. First, in the South African context, the terms “dialogue,” “cross-fertilization,” and “globalization” do not reflect the true nature of the exercises in drawing comparisons in the South African Constitutional Court. These terms imply a reciprocal dialogue between two or more courts from different jurisdictions. It is evident, however, that the South African Constitutional Court has been considering far more foreign jurisprudence than any non-South African constitutional court has been considering South African jurisprudence—in other words, this has largely been a case of one-way traffic. S v. Makwanyane, in many ways the inaugural decision of the Constitutional Court, contains 220 foreign case citations from 11 countries and three supranational courts. To our knowledge no other foreign court can boast a comparable statistic.
The life and times of a learned jackal for justice L Du Plessis "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." (Holy Bible, Matthew 8:20) Noscitur a sociis. You are known by the company you keep. Aan jou vriende word jy geken. If this saying holds, my friends, then I, your guest of honour at this auspicious occasion, am a human being beyond compare, and perhaps even a semblance of the laureate so profusely showered with your praises today. However, acceding to honest introspection, I fully reckon with the possibility that the proverb may be amiss and at any rate not applicable to me. But let me first speak the following words in bold before I say anything more: "My friends, thank you, simply but sincerely, for your unfaltering camaraderie through the years, as together we negotiated the labyrinth that is académe; for your enthusiasm to walk many an extra mile with me and, in sum, for your amicable and caring involvement in the fulfilment of what to me has been a thoroughly gratifying career (so far). And now, having said what under no circumstances could have been allowed to remain unsaid, please take no exception when I emerge from my lair to disenchant you. For verily I must say unto you, I am not in the habit of being beyond compare, and therefore my conscience enjoins me to construe words of praise coming my way with judicious circumspection. I appreciate and, indeed, treasure your benevolent observations nonetheless, but allow me also to introduce to you a downsized laureate. You may have a clue to what species (s)he is. Emerging from a lair, which is a This writing originates from a colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of the Western Cape, on 2 October 2015 to celebrate the life and work of the author of the piece, and to present him with a Festschrift in his honour: cf De Ville, Jacques (ed) Memory and meaning. Lourens du Plessis and the haunting of justice (LexisNexis Durban 2015). The laureate's response mostly draws on words of appreciation and reflection coming from the said piece.
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