Programme News
19 October 2007
(News)
Tears of joy flowed on Tuesday when the Richtersveld community finally won back the diamond-rich land taken from them almost a century ago.The restoration of the land was part of a settlement agreement confirmed by Land Claims Court Judge Antonie Gildenhuys, sitting in Cape Town.His order, handed down just after 4pm, ended a decade-long legal battle that went all the way to the Constitutional...
7 October 2007
(Press release)
Constitutional Court confirms Equality Court decision on the right of a learner to wear a nosestud in recognition of the right to religious and cultural freedom.
1 October 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights releases report on" Protecting Minors from harmful content via mobile phones".
20 September 2007
(News)
BEN MACLENNAN | CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - Sep 20 2007 14:27A group ofRichtersveld residents is to challenge a settlement agreement with thegovernment when the document goes before the Land Claims Court in Cape Townnext week for ratification.
Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin andrepresentatives of the Richtersveld Sida !hub Communal Property Association(CPA) signed the agreement in April...
2 August 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights responds to the Department of Home Affairs' press release stating that "virtually no people from Zimbabwe have applied for asylum" in 2007.
5 July 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights condemns the spate of arbitrary arrests of foreign migrants by SAPS officials.
29 June 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights supports a statement issued by Amnesty International and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights stating that human rights issues must be at the centre of any dialogue between the Government of Zimbabwe and the MDC.
20 June 2007
(Press release)
The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants publishes its annual report entitled " Protecting Refugees and Asylum Seekers in South Africa".
30 May 2007
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeal this morning in the case of Tswelopele v City of Tshwane and the Minister of Safety and Security (case 303/06). In March 2006, officials of the Tshwane Metro and the SAPS were involved in an illegal eviction of squatters in the Moreletta Park area. Not only did they evict the informal dwellers without any court order,...
14 May 2007
(News)
JOHANNESBURG - Former Zimbabwe oppositionlawmaker Roy Bennett said yesterday he had finally won asylum in South Africa -the first senior Zimbabwe political figure to succeed.The "happy" Bennett, who has been in the countryfor more than a year now, said Home Affairs gave him the asylum papers onFriday after the Refugees Appeal Board overruled a decision by the governmentto deny him...