Programme News
22 July 2010
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Opinion I By Loren B Landau and Tara Polzer I Those who heard the dog bite remember its bite.
Over the past two weeks, those same people have seen World Cup fever give way to a feverish effort to prevent the forthcoming melee. No one has been readying themselves more fervently than migrants, many of whom have made their way to safety either in South Africa or beyond its borders. Some, who...
14 July 2010
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David Holdcroft I Opinion I The vuvuzelas have finally quietened; 64 games, three million spectators, one million visitors and 40 billion rand (A$6 billion) later, the World Cup has been proclaimed a triumph. South Africa feels rehabilitated in the world's eyes while Spain, without the baggage of having eliminated an African team in dubious manner, are regarded as worthy winners.
But it seems...
12 July 2010
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Alex Eliseev I 702 Eyewitness News I As South Africa wakes up to a World Cup-free day, threats of xenophobic attacks come into focus. The Police Ministry is downplaying the threats as attempts to steal the thunder from a successful tournament. But out on the streets of townships, foreigners have been told to leave or die.The threats of xenophobic violence have been growing louder as the...
2 July 2010
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BUSINESS DAY WILSON JOHWA AN INDICTMENT issued against a former Rwandan general who was shot in Johannesburg earlier this month, holding him accountable for murders that were part of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, puts his refugee status under question, a human rights lawyer said yesterday.
Lt-Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, one of 40 Rwandans named in a 2008 warrant issued by a Spanish judge, was shot in...
2 July 2010
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BUSINESS DAY WILSON JOHWA The Department of Home Affair's deputy director -general responsible for immigration, Jackson McKay, said yesterday that Lt-Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa has successfuly applied for residency in SA. THE former Rwandan general and suspected war criminal who survived an apparent assassination attempt in Johannesburg last week is a recognised refugee in SA, a status that critics say...
26 June 2010
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The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is pleased to announce that David Cote, head of the strategic litigation unit at the leading human rights organisation Lawyers for Human Rights, South Africa will observe the bail application in the matter of The State versus Farai Maguwu in the High Court of Zimbabwe from 16-17th June 2010. Mr Farai Maguwu, a respected human rights defender was...
28 May 2010
(Press release)
On 28 May the South Gauteng High Court ordered the immediate release of detained Zimbabwean human rights defender, Petro Chatiza. Lawyers for Human Rights launched an urgent court application for the release of Chatiza who has been active in the area of evictions and housing rights in Zimbabwe for several years. He was arrested on 21 May when he tried to board a flight at OR Tambo...
21 May 2010
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African civil society groups, in a statement released today, called on Malawian authorities to repeal discriminatory laws criminalizing private sexual behavior, and release Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga. Monjeza and Chimbalanga were convicted of carnal knowledge against the order of nature and sentenced today to 14 years—the maximum penalty—in prison. Gift...
17 May 2010
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NIC DAWES | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - May 14 2010 16:26
The office of the presidency is claiming an unprecedented degree of executive privilege in an effort to prevent the Mail & Guardian from gaining access to a report commissioned by former president Thabo Mbeki.
The North Gauteng High Court will on Monday 24 May hear argument in the M&G's court bid to obtain the report by Deputy...
10 May 2010
(Press release)
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) welcomes today’s acquittal of Deputy Agriculture Minister-Designate and Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Treasurer-General, Senator Roy Bennett on spurious charges of insurgency, banditry, terrorism and sabotage leveled against him last October.
On Monday 10 May 2010 High Court Judge Justice Chinembiri Bhunu freed Bennett after ruling that the...