LJU4801 October
November Portfolio
(COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2025 - DUE
28 October 2025
[School]
[Course title]
, Exam (elaborations)
LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 -
DUE 28 October 2025
Institution
University Of South Africa (Unisa)
Course
Legal Philosophy (LJU4801)
LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2025 - DUE 28 October 2025; 100% TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and
explanations.
/ 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
November Portfolio
(COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2025 - DUE
28 October 2025
[School]
[Course title]
, Exam (elaborations)
LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 -
DUE 28 October 2025
Institution
University Of South Africa (Unisa)
Course
Legal Philosophy (LJU4801)
LJU4801 October November Portfolio (COMPLETE ANSWERS)
Semester 2 2025 - DUE 28 October 2025; 100% TRUSTED Complete, trusted solutions and
explanations.
/ 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
