Programme News
19 November 2014
(News)
On 17 November 2014, the Sowetan issued an apology for misrepresenting facts and wrongfully attributing quotes to LHR and MIACC [our client].
19 November 2014
(News)
On a cloudy Monday afternoon, an imposing group of watchful, youthful men and women in bright yellow bibs religiously congregate along Thabo Sehume street in central Pretoria. They do so almost every day, in different streets.
Their work is partly inscribed on their bright yellow bibs - Pretoria central community policing forum (CPF). Some in the group are wearing police issue black boots, some...
13 November 2014
(Press release)
Following its recent mission conducted in South Sudan, FIDH raises serious concerns over the risks of a further deterioration of the human rights and humanitarian situation in the country if no effective measures are taken to break the cycle of violence and impunity which currently prevails.
Almost a year after the outbreak of the conflict between the forces loyal to the President Salva Kiir and...
13 November 2014
(News)
The task team established by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba to investigate the implementation of the new visa regulations was aware of the report on job losses commissioned by the Tourism Business Council of SA, the council said on Monday.
The report conducted by auditors Grant Thornton and leaked to The Times newspaper this week warned that more than 100,000 jobs in the tourism industry...
13 November 2014
(News)
On 4th November the UN launched a global campaign to end statelessness within ten years. I confidently predict that the result of this campaign will be to ‘increase’ statelessness by many millions of people. This is not because I think that the campaign is misconceived — far from it — but because the statistics on the numbers of stateless persons are currently so...
13 November 2014
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SANDF chief of acquisitions during the 1999 arms deal period Shamin “Chippy” Shaik did not hand-pick the particular suppliers, the Seriti Commission of Inquiry heard on Tuesday.
“I merely would like to place it on record that I did not in any way influence the technical terms to select or de-select any products that were offered to the various prime contractors,” Shaik...
11 November 2014
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The long-awaited appearance of Shamin “Chippy” Shaik at the arms deal commission on Monday is likely to bring some renewed interest to the beleaguered inquiry. Shaik, government’s head of acquisitions during the 1999 arms deal, is set to give evidence for four days this week.
Previous high-profile government leaders involved in the deal have proved to be something of a damp...
10 November 2014
(Press release)
Ivanhoe Mines announced last week that the mining right for the development and operation of the company’s Platreef mining project in Mokopane had been executed and would enable immediate preparations for the construction of the mining site. The mine further reported that the final approval of the mining right was indicative of the Department of Mineral Resources' (DMR) satisfaction...
10 November 2014
(News)
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Alice mutters bitterly that the game played in the kingdom run by the Queen of Hearts does not "seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them". Similar murmurs could be heard in a courtroom in Swaziland on Monday, as the Supreme Court heard two appeals in the series of litigation cases emanating from...
10 November 2014
(News)
The long-awaited appearance of Shamin “Chippy” Shaik at the arms deal commission on Monday is likely to bring some renewed interest to the beleaguered inquiry. Shaik, government’s head of acquisitions during the 1999 arms deal, is set to give evidence for four days this week.
Previous high-profile government leaders involved in the deal have proved to be something of a damp...