Dr Wafiq Davids

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wafiq is a partner at Davids & Partners and a Postdoctoral fellow at the MLiA Chair.

a) TECHNICAL REPORTS AND POLICY

  1. Mostert, H, Cramer, RH, Mathiba, GL, Davids, W, Olivier, NJJ, Sehlabo, ML, Moses, LT, Makonese, R, Molefe, D & Qumba, M “Written Submissions on the Draft Mineral Resources Development Bill, 2025. (GN 6210 of Government Gazette, No. 52704 of 20 May 2025). Prepared by: The South African Research Chair Initiative for Mineral Law in Africa Department of Private Law: Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town South Africa. Available at https://law.uct.ac.za/sites/default/files/media/documents/law_uct_ac_za/2283/uct-mlia-submission-on-mpr-bill-2025.pdf (13 August 2025). 

b) POSTERS 

  1. Davids, W “Public Private Partnerships & State Participation in South African Upstream Petroleum” Poster Presented at the 2022 Mineral Law in Africa Colloquium VII, Cape Town, South Africa (31 October 2022). 

c) PhD DISSERTATION 

  1.  Davids, MW “The Regulation of South Africa's Emerging Hydrocarbon Sector: A purposive analysis of the Upstream Petroleum Resources Development Act 23 of 2024 compared to the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002” Available at http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42139 (Phd-thesis, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town 2025). 

d) LLM MINI DISSERTATION

  1. Davids, W Revisiting the Normative Underpinnings of the Home Interest, (LLM Mini-dissertation, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, 2021).