In the media
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9 April 2013
The Mail & Guardian Online
A sewerage plant supplying the community of Rockville, north of Pretoria, is leaking. But its reconstruction is being contested in court.
The community, through Lawyers for Human Rights, is in court because they say they were not consulted on the project and the plant began working before it had a water licence.
The current water plant was first built in 1983, when the community was still under the jurisdiction of the Bophuthatswana government. Nobody consulted them at the time, they said in court documents.
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6 April 2013
Deutsche Welle
You may need: Adobe Flash Player. LHR's head of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme, Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, speaks to Deutsche Welle about attacks on foreign nationals and traders.
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4 April 2013
SABC Channel Africa
You may need: Adobe Flash Player. International Federation for Human Rights vice-president Arnold Tsunga chats to SABC's Channel Africa about their latest report detailing fears ahead of Zimbabwe's elections.
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3 April 2013
Mail & Guardian Online
A slideshow compiled by Mail & Guardian Online on the Statelessness Project's exhibition on 20 March 2013.
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21 March 2013
ENCA online
Hundreds of thousands of people living in South Africa are stateless, that is according to a report titled ‘Statelessness and Nationality in South Africa’ released on Wednesday by the Lawyers for Human Rights and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
UNHCR’s Deputy Regional Representative Sergio Calle-Norena says Mozambicans make up a large contingent of the stateless people in SA.
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19 March 2013
Times LIVE
Judge Owen Rogers declared as unlawful a decision to close the Maitland office to new applicants for asylum after June 2012.
He ordered the department to have an refugee reception office (RRO) open and fully functional within the Cape Town metro by July 1.
Home Affairs Minister Naledi Pandor and three respondents were ordered to pay the costs of the applicants, plus that of two counsel.
The application was brought by the Scalabrini Centre, a non-profit organisation that assisted migrant communities and displaced people.
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17 March 2013
enca
Lawyers for Human Rights' National Director Jacob van Garderen is interviewed on eNCA over the detention of Zimbabwe lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa since 17 March 2013.
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1 March 2013
The Vancouver Sun
They bound his hands to the rear of a van, and then sped off, dragging the slender taxi driver along the pavement as a crowd of onlookers shouted in dismay. The man was later found dead.
A gut-wrenching video of the scene is all the more disturbing because the men who abused the Mozambican immigrant were uniformed South African police officers and the van was a marked police vehicle.
The graphic scenes of the victim struggling for his life shocked a nation long accustomed to reports of police violence.
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1 March 2013
BDLive
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Friday added its voice in calling for an urgent investigation by the South African Police Service (SAPS) and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) into the death of Mozambican national Mido Macia — allegedly due to police brutality after being dragged behind a police vehicle and assaulted while in detention.
The taxi driver was found dead in the holding cells of the Daveyton police station in Ekurhuleni on Tuesday night.
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28 February 2013
rte News
South Africa's police watchdog is investigating the death of a taxi driver after officers allegedly tied him to the back of a police van and dragged him through the streets.
Mido Macia, a 27-year-old Mozambican immigrant, was later found dead in a Daveyton police cell, on the eastern outskirts of Johannesburg.
Video footage has emerged of the incident, which has shocked the country and sparked outrage.
At least three policemen are alleged to have participated in the incident.
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