NO PLAGIALISM
LJU4801 October November Portfolio
(COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2
2025 - DUE 28 October 2025
,LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 -
DUE 28 October 2025; .XOctober / November 2025 LEGAL PHILOSOPHY LJU4801
PORTFOLIO EXAMINERS: FIRST: PROF. J-H DE VILLIERS SECOND: MS. PAN
NYAWO EXTERNAL: DR. Y JOOSTE (University of Pretoria) This paper consists of 7
pages. The paper counts 80 marks. The portfolio runs from 23 - 28 October 2025.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE
ANSWERING THE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. 1. This portfolio must be submitted
before 20:00 on 28 October 2025 (CAT). Students have to submit this portfolio via
myUnisa, therefore no e-mailed portfolios may be accepted. No extensions will be
granted. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the file submitted is not
corrupted and can be opened for marking. No scanned portfolios may be submitted. 2.
You must therefore submit this portfolio as Assessment 3 via myUnisa. When you receive
the portfolio, check whether your submission portal is open/available and let your
lecturers know immediately if your submission portal is not open. 3.1 When ready to
submit, open the Take-Home (Assignment) assessment and click on the Add Submission
button. LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 2 3.2 Note the file requirements such as: a. File size
limit. b. Number of files that can be submitted. c. File formats allowed. 3.3 Check the
acknowledgment checkbox and upload your answers document and then click on the Save
changes button. 3.4 Review your submission information regarding the status and click on
your submission file link to check if it's correct. LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 3 3.5 If you
need to resubmit a file, you can click on the Edit Submission button. Do not click on the
Remove submission button. Note: You will need to delete any existing files by clicking on
the file and then on delete. 4. The Declaration of Academic Honesty button must be
clicked when submitting the portfolio examination. By ticking the Honesty Declaration,
you confirm that you have read (i) the University’s Policy on Copyright Infringement and
,Plagiarism and the Student Disciplinary Code, which are both available on myUnisa:
values and plagiarism that is found at LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 4 5. This is an open-book
examination. You may consult your prescribed study material during the examination. 6.
Proper footnote referencing must be used. This entails that every argument or idea taken
from another source, or any piece of information utilised from another source, needs to be
provided with a separate footnote reference. Please note that in-line referencing in the text
may NOT be used. 7. When answering questions, students are expected to make use of the
study guide as well as other sources relevant to the question. PLEASE DO NOT COPY
AND PASTE ANSWERS FROM ANY SOURCE. When answering the questions, you
must provide footnote references to the relevant source(s) for every statement made. You
must make use of the Unisa School of Law referencing style. Refer to Tutorial Letter 301
and Tutorial Letter 302 under the Official Study Material tab on myUnisa. Do not make
use of long quotations, rather rephrase the arguments in your own words. Short quotations
must appear in quotation marks and be accompanied by a corresponding footnote
reference. Unreferenced portfolio content will not be credited with marks. 8. Use proper
language and grammar and make use of full sentences; no bullets or numbering are
allowed. Your essays must present coherent, logical and consistent arguments. 9. Note
that all portfolios will be scrutinised for plagiarism through the use of Turnitin. Any
information provided that is not in your own words and properly referenced, will be
flagged by Turnitin. Be reminded that Turnitin also compares all student assignment
submissions to each other; instances of academic dishonesty or students copying from
each other will also be identified. Instances of AI writing are also detected by Turnitin.
Cases of plagiarism or academic dishonesty will be dealt with in accordance with the
University's policies.
, Carefully consider the following pronouncement made by Nelson Mandela during his first
court statement in Pretoria, 1962: Your Worship, I would say that the whole life of any
thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his
conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. This is not a conflict peculiar to this
country. The conflict arises for men of conscience, for men who think and who feel
deeply in every country. Recently in Britain, a peer of the realm, Earl Russell, probably
the most respected philosopher of the Western world, was sentenced, convicted for
precisely the type of activities for which I stand before you today, for following his
conscience in defiance of the law, as a protest against a nuclear weapons policy being
followed by his own government. For him, his duty to the public, his belief in the morality
of the essential rightness of the cause for which he stood, rose superior to this high respect
for the law. He could not do other than to oppose the law and to suffer the consequences
for it. Nor can I. Nor can many Africans in this country. The law as it is applied, the law
as it has been developed over a long period of history, and especially the law as it is
written and designed by the Nationalist government, is a law which, in our view, is
immoral, unjust, and intolerable. Our consciences dictate that we must protest against it,
that we must oppose it, and that we must attempt to alter it. Consider the following extract
from page 1 of The Citizen newspaper, Friday 29 August 2025: The Sexual Offences Act
23 of 1957 prohibits prostitution, brothel-keeping, and other related activities. A call for
the decriminalisation of sex work is currently being heard by the Western Cape High
Court. Comprehensively explain the legal thinking found in the work of Mary Joe Frug to
explain how both the law, generally, and the Sexual Offences Act, specifically, “encodes”
the female body with meaning. Read the following scenario and then answer the question
LJU4801 October November Portfolio
(COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2
2025 - DUE 28 October 2025
,LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 -
DUE 28 October 2025; .XOctober / November 2025 LEGAL PHILOSOPHY LJU4801
PORTFOLIO EXAMINERS: FIRST: PROF. J-H DE VILLIERS SECOND: MS. PAN
NYAWO EXTERNAL: DR. Y JOOSTE (University of Pretoria) This paper consists of 7
pages. The paper counts 80 marks. The portfolio runs from 23 - 28 October 2025.
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE
ANSWERING THE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. 1. This portfolio must be submitted
before 20:00 on 28 October 2025 (CAT). Students have to submit this portfolio via
myUnisa, therefore no e-mailed portfolios may be accepted. No extensions will be
granted. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that the file submitted is not
corrupted and can be opened for marking. No scanned portfolios may be submitted. 2.
You must therefore submit this portfolio as Assessment 3 via myUnisa. When you receive
the portfolio, check whether your submission portal is open/available and let your
lecturers know immediately if your submission portal is not open. 3.1 When ready to
submit, open the Take-Home (Assignment) assessment and click on the Add Submission
button. LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 2 3.2 Note the file requirements such as: a. File size
limit. b. Number of files that can be submitted. c. File formats allowed. 3.3 Check the
acknowledgment checkbox and upload your answers document and then click on the Save
changes button. 3.4 Review your submission information regarding the status and click on
your submission file link to check if it's correct. LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 3 3.5 If you
need to resubmit a file, you can click on the Edit Submission button. Do not click on the
Remove submission button. Note: You will need to delete any existing files by clicking on
the file and then on delete. 4. The Declaration of Academic Honesty button must be
clicked when submitting the portfolio examination. By ticking the Honesty Declaration,
you confirm that you have read (i) the University’s Policy on Copyright Infringement and
,Plagiarism and the Student Disciplinary Code, which are both available on myUnisa:
values and plagiarism that is found at LJU4801 OCT/NOV 2025 4 5. This is an open-book
examination. You may consult your prescribed study material during the examination. 6.
Proper footnote referencing must be used. This entails that every argument or idea taken
from another source, or any piece of information utilised from another source, needs to be
provided with a separate footnote reference. Please note that in-line referencing in the text
may NOT be used. 7. When answering questions, students are expected to make use of the
study guide as well as other sources relevant to the question. PLEASE DO NOT COPY
AND PASTE ANSWERS FROM ANY SOURCE. When answering the questions, you
must provide footnote references to the relevant source(s) for every statement made. You
must make use of the Unisa School of Law referencing style. Refer to Tutorial Letter 301
and Tutorial Letter 302 under the Official Study Material tab on myUnisa. Do not make
use of long quotations, rather rephrase the arguments in your own words. Short quotations
must appear in quotation marks and be accompanied by a corresponding footnote
reference. Unreferenced portfolio content will not be credited with marks. 8. Use proper
language and grammar and make use of full sentences; no bullets or numbering are
allowed. Your essays must present coherent, logical and consistent arguments. 9. Note
that all portfolios will be scrutinised for plagiarism through the use of Turnitin. Any
information provided that is not in your own words and properly referenced, will be
flagged by Turnitin. Be reminded that Turnitin also compares all student assignment
submissions to each other; instances of academic dishonesty or students copying from
each other will also be identified. Instances of AI writing are also detected by Turnitin.
Cases of plagiarism or academic dishonesty will be dealt with in accordance with the
University's policies.
, Carefully consider the following pronouncement made by Nelson Mandela during his first
court statement in Pretoria, 1962: Your Worship, I would say that the whole life of any
thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his
conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. This is not a conflict peculiar to this
country. The conflict arises for men of conscience, for men who think and who feel
deeply in every country. Recently in Britain, a peer of the realm, Earl Russell, probably
the most respected philosopher of the Western world, was sentenced, convicted for
precisely the type of activities for which I stand before you today, for following his
conscience in defiance of the law, as a protest against a nuclear weapons policy being
followed by his own government. For him, his duty to the public, his belief in the morality
of the essential rightness of the cause for which he stood, rose superior to this high respect
for the law. He could not do other than to oppose the law and to suffer the consequences
for it. Nor can I. Nor can many Africans in this country. The law as it is applied, the law
as it has been developed over a long period of history, and especially the law as it is
written and designed by the Nationalist government, is a law which, in our view, is
immoral, unjust, and intolerable. Our consciences dictate that we must protest against it,
that we must oppose it, and that we must attempt to alter it. Consider the following extract
from page 1 of The Citizen newspaper, Friday 29 August 2025: The Sexual Offences Act
23 of 1957 prohibits prostitution, brothel-keeping, and other related activities. A call for
the decriminalisation of sex work is currently being heard by the Western Cape High
Court. Comprehensively explain the legal thinking found in the work of Mary Joe Frug to
explain how both the law, generally, and the Sexual Offences Act, specifically, “encodes”
the female body with meaning. Read the following scenario and then answer the question
