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21 August 2012
(News)
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...
3 August 2012
(Press release)
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) has taken instructions today from the residents of Marlboro Gardens to oppose the illegal eviction conducted by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD).
On Thursday 2 August 2012, over 100 officers of the JMPD entered the area and forcibly evicted the residents from the area. Some of the residents had been living there for seven years....
31 July 2012
(Press release)
PRESS RELEASE - 31 JULY 2012
The Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE), Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) were shocked to be served yesterday with an application to appeal the order by the High Court requiring the Gert Sibande Municipality to provide basic water services to the Carolina community pending the outcome of an appeal of the main application...
26 July 2012
(Press release)
Court Orders Cape Town Refugee Reception Office to Accept New Asylum Applicants Judge Dennis Davis of the Western Cape High Court decided in favour of continued access to the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office (CT RRO) for new asylum applicants. The
Judge found that the decision by the Department of Home Affairs was taken without the legally required consultation with the Standing Committee for...
22 July 2012
(Press release)
On Tuesday, the North Gauteng High Court will hear arguments against the discriminatory targeting of foreign traders in Limpopo by police and the Department of Home Affairs.
In the case of Somali Association of South Africa and others v Limpopo Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism and others, Lawyers for Human Rights is challenging the unlawful practice preventing...
20 July 2012
(Press release)
CORMSA PRESS RELEASE:The struggle to keep Refugee Reception Offices open continues across the country with another litigation effort on the closure of the Cape Town Refugee Reception Office. The Department of Home Affairs has been implementing (an unofficial) policy which has seen the closure thus far of the Crowne Mines RRO (Johannesburg) in May 2011; the Port Elizabeth RRO in...
17 July 2012
(Press release)
Joint Media Statement on Situation in Carolina issued by LAWYERS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, LEGAL RESOURCES CENTRE AND THE FEDERATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENT MEDIA STATEMENT - 17th July 2012
The Federation for a Sustainable Development and the Silobela Concerned Community, represented by the Legal Resources Centre and Lawyers for Human Rights respectively, yesterday opposed an...
17 July 2012
(News)
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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
(Press release)
Media Statement by Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)
The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and the Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) have welcomed the North Gauteng High Court's order compelling the Gert Sibande Municipality in Mpumalanga to provide temporary potable water to the residents of Silobela, Caropark and Carolina, within 72 hours.
The Federation for...
10 July 2012
(News)
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...