In the media
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5 February 2014
EnCA television
Thousands of students from the Tshwane University of Technology are still being housed in community halls.
This is despite a High Court order that students be allowed to return to campus residences immediately.
If you're in contempt of court you must be arrested and there's nothing we can do. We are going to speak to our lawyers to pursue that route.
TUT has not complied with the court's order, saying it has not received court documents confirming that it has to reopen the hostels.
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4 February 2014
Business Day
The South African Police Service has asked the Constitutional Court to set aside a Supreme Court of Appeal order that international and domestic legislation compelled it to investigate alleged crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe.
The case started in 2008 when the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum sent a docket to the priority crimes litigation unit of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA). It documented acts of torture allegedly committed after a raid by Zimbabwean police on the headquarters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change.
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3 February 2014
Pretoria News
Boosted by a weekend interdict allowing Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) hostel residents back on campus, student leaders say they will proceed with a mass protest on Monday.
Late on Sunday, some residence students remained uncertain about their position and when they would be able to return to their rooms. Many in Soshanguve had taken shelter in the Falala Community Hall in block F.
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7 December 2013
Times Live
South Africans could best remember former president Nelson Mandela by working to continue his life's work, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Friday.
"Mandela's illustrious legacy is what has kept civil society's eye so keenly focused on human rights in South Africa and across the continent and abroad," LHR said in a statement.
"While we can't say we've accomplished everything he set out to achieve, we can certainly say that we are on the right track despite the numerous obstacles we face."
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7 December 2013
Business Day
Nelson Mandela’s qualities as a leader who truly served his people and remained humble are the most important lessons to be learnt from his life, law firm Routledge Modise’s chairman, Lavery Modise, said on Friday.
"He brought out the best of what is expected in a leader. I cannot think of a better example. It will be a hard act to follow, but we should all try to emulate him," said Mr Modise, whose firm last month merged with major global firm Hogan Lovells.
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7 December 2013
Sapa
South Africans could best remember former president Nelson Mandela by working to continue his life's work, Lawyers for Human Rights said on Friday.
“Mandela's illustrious legacy is what has kept civil society's eye so keenly focused on human rights in South Africa and across the continent and abroad,” LHR said in a statement.
“While we can't say we've accomplished everything he set out to achieve, we can certainly say that we are on the right track despite the numerous obstacles we face.”
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29 November 2013
Business Day
A ruling by South Africa’s appeal court on Wednesday, which gives the green light to South African police officials to investigate allegations of torture against Zimbabwean officials, has been dismissed as a "non-event" and an "unfortunate development" by Zimbabwe’s newly appointed prosecutor-general, Johannes Tomana.
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28 November 2013
Cape Times
It was a remark that no one who heard it in court is likely to forget: victims of serious torture in Zimbabwe found it “offensive” when the perpetrators came to South Africa on shopping trips and enjoyed immunity from any legal action.
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27 November 2013
All Africa
A top South African court has declared that the country's police and prosecutors are obliged to investigate allegations of torture and crimes against humanity committed by Zimbabwean government officials, against Zimbabweans, in Zimbabwe.
In a judgment handed down on Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Appeal said the South African law dealing with the implementation of the Rome Statute - the legal instrument which set up the International Criminal Court - required that the South African Police Service initiate an investigation.
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27 November 2013
Bloomberg
South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled that the country’s police should investigate alleged crimes against humanity in neighboring Zimbabwe.
The charges of “widespread and systematic torture” are serious enough for South African authorities to pursue their perpetrators even if the wrongdoing was committed in another country, the Bloemfontein-based court ruled today. It rejected an appeal from the police and state prosecutors who argued they didn’t have any jurisdiction.
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