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3 October 2012
5 September 2012
Press Release: Illegal immigration detention of children on the increase in South Africa
Johannesburg, 4 September 2012 – The Global Campaign to End Child Immigration Detention, launched on 21 May, is focusing on South Africa during the month of September. South Africa is one of the six states that the Campaign is targeting during 2012. South African law prohibits the detention of...
21 August 2012
Mining outfit African Nickel turned to the Pretoria High Court last week in an attempt to gag a Magaliesburg landowner "from spreading false allegations" to the media and the public about the mine's activities near the Magaliesberg protected area.
Thys van As, a member of the Landowners Association of Magaliesberg (Loam) earlier objected in the media to African Nickel being granted a...
17 July 2012
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What can ordinary citizens do when the state – at either national, provincial or local government level – fails to fulfil its most basic obligations towards citizens to create the conditions that make it possible for them to live meaningful lives and to flourish? In developing his concept that a modern state is based on social contract between the...
10 July 2012
High Court orders Carolina Municipality to immediately provide temporary potable water to the Silobela, Caropark and Carolina residents. The court further compelled the municipality to meaningfully engage the community in order to find a lasting solution to the problem. Finally, the court ordered the Municipality to report back to court within one month on the measures taken to ensure clean water...
2 July 2012
TOMORROW the 17000 residents of Carolina, Mpumalanga, backed by Lawyers for Human Rights and the Legal Resources Centre, will apply for an urgent court order giving Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and six other officials, a month to explain what has been done to supply the town with water services.
Last month, the North Gauteng High Court ruled the Department of Basic...
19 June 2012
SOUTH Africa is getting two-thirds fewer applications for asylum than a few years ago, but researchers say officials make such bad decisions that the whole system is now meaningless. Department of Home Affairs (DHA) officials are so biased and administratively unfair that asylum-seekers are systematically rejected, resulting in an asylum system which “functions solely as an instrument...
13 June 2012
The Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights to assess the situation on Saturday, as Carolina residents remain without safe drinking water. WATER Affairs Minister Edna Molewa could face litigation from two of SA’s foremost human rights organisations over a Mpumalanga town’s continued lack of drinkable water.About 17000 people in the Carolina area have been without safe...
11 June 2012
Court nod for them to build in posh area: GROUP of informal dwellers living in a shanty town in Moreleta Park, informally known as Plastic View, has won the right not to only stay – but to build houses in one of the city’s most affluent areas.
PICTURE: PHILL MAGAKOE Squatters in Moreleta Park have been given the nod to build homes in one of the most affluent areas of the city,...