North-West University (NWU) research professor and professor in securities and financial markets law, Prof Howard Chitimira, recently published a textbook along with two other editors.

The book, Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century: Universalism and Particularism in International Law, addresses pertinent questions regarding variants of global apartheid in the twenty-first century.

Prof Chitimira says the book is dedicated to victims of the unrelenting global apartheid regime which has created a false impression of positive political, legal and economic successes in developing countries, while in reality it has caused severe poverty.

“The post-colonial global apartheid regime presents a legal, political and economic order that supposedly promotes the rule of law, democracy and human rights at face value, but in essence is a hoax and the root cause for poverty and death among millions in today’s world.”

More about the book

A total of 25 authors contributed to the book, Global Jurisprudential Apartheid in the Twenty-First Century: Universalism and Particularism in International Law, which consists of 18 chapters.

Dr Artwell Nhemachena and Dr Tapiwa Warikandwa from the University of Namibia are the other two editors.

It unpacks the challenges of global jurisprudential apartheid, and especially the ongoing inequalities in respect of applications of the rule of law, human rights and humanitarianism between the countries in the Global North and those in the Global South.

In this regard, the biased operation and application of the law, policies and regulatory principles in the international criminal courts, the World Trade Organisation, the United Nations Security Council, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank is a case in point. The book provides that globalisation is a variant of the apartheid-era particularism and not universalism.

Prof Howard Chitimira