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9 September 2013
Business Day
The Baphiring community in North West could yet have land that they were dispossessed of restored to them after a ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday.
The court set aside the Land Claims Court judgment of 2010 that the restoration of the land to the community was "not feasible".
It also held that the state was obliged to lead evidence regarding the cost of restoration.
The appeal court said the failure of the Land Claims Court to call for such evidence constituted "a material irregularity".
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8 September 2013
Sunday Times
People who were relocated from the village of Ga-Pila in Mokopane, formerly Potgietersrus, are accusing mining giant Anglo Platinum (Amplats) of a litany of broken promises.
Amplats asked the villagers to make way for a mining dump. They were shifted to the nearby Sterkwater.
Now they say Amplats short-changed them on the relocation fee and failed to provide them with services they promised — including clean water, tarred roads, streetlamps and shares in the company.
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30 August 2013
EWN
Organisations Advocates for Transformation and Lawyers for Human Rights have stressed the importance of the new National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head being scandal free.
Chairperson Dumisa Ntsebeza said it would be an error of judgment for someone with an outstanding complaint against them to be appointed.
“It is important that a person is not only independent, but is seen to be independent.”
Jacob van Garderen, National Director of Lawyers for Human Rights said it’s very important that the person is seen to be scandal free.
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30 August 2013
Mail & Guardian
Prospecting for one of the world's largest platinum mines has already taken farming land from a Limpopo community.
Their future is uncertain and people are getting angrier about living in limbo
In 1994, most South Africans opened the gates to freedom. In that year, Frank Mofokeng* lost his ancestral plot and his only source of income.
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30 August 2013
Eyewitness News
South Africa's legal fraternity and victims of crime are waiting to see whether President Jacob Zuma will appoint a new head to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) by his own deadline of Friday.
Last month, Zuma promised the Constitutional Court he would make an appointment by the end of August, after leaving the post vacant for almost a year.
It’s been claimed Zuma wants to appoint Magistrate Stanley Gumede who has outstanding complaints against him at the Magistrates Commission.
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30 August 2013
Mail & Guardian
Prospecting for one of the world's largest platinum mines has already taken farming land from a Limpopo community.
Their future is uncertain and people are getting angrier about living in limbo
In 1994, most South Africans opened the gates to freedom. In that year, Frank Mofokeng* lost his ancestral plot and his only source of income.
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14 August 2013
City Press
Nine of South Africa’s most prominent rights organisations have come out in support of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s stance on transformation.
In a joint press release issued today, the organisations said they “oppose the recent complaint against the chief justice and regard it as ill-considered”.
A furious war of words has been raging in the legal community for over a month, after Mogoeng made a fiery speech in which he accused unnamed individuals and NGOs of “declaring war on transformation”.
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14 August 2013
The Star
Several legal organisations and NGOs have opposed a complaint calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
They described the complaint as “ill-considered” in a joint statement on Tuesday.
“The complaint does damage to the much needed project of transformation in the legal profession and threatens to chill the important dialogue about sex, race, sexual orientation and gender on the bench, at the bar and (the) sidebar,” they said.
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14 August 2013
IOL
Johannesburg - Several legal organisations and NGOs have opposed a complaint calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng. They described the complaint as “ill-considered” in a joint statement on Tuesday.
“The complaint does damage to the much needed project of transformation in the legal profession and threatens to chill the important dialogue about sex, race, sexual orientation and gender on the bench, at the bar and (the) sidebar,” they said.
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5 August 2013
SAFM
You may need: Adobe Flash Player. Asylum-seekers in Limpopo have accused state organs of having taken away their livelihoods. A year ago, Limpopo police closed down foreign-owned tuckshops in the townships, saying that the asylum-seekers would need to apply for business permits. But the operation was aimed specifically at Ethiopian and Somali spaza shop owners, leaving locally-owned businesses untouched. Most lost everything and are still struggling to find justice. Senior Constitutional Court Reporter, Candice Klein has the story:
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