Programme News
17 July 2012
(News)
Constitutionallyspeaking.co.za
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...
2 July 2012
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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...
13 June 2012
(News)
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...
13 March 2012
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Seepage from mines has poisoned the town’s water and government estimates it will cost R200m to fix, writes Sue Blaine
WHEN Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa meets Power Mndebele, a South African Communist Party organiser in Carolina, she meets a young man who is shaking with anger. About 17000 people live in the mining and farming community of Carolina,...
16 February 2012
(Press release)
On the 14th of February 2012, Lawyers for Human Rights and the Centre for Environmental Rights, on behalf of 18 organisations linked to the Mining, Environment and Community Alliance, wrote to Mrs Edna Molewa, Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs where the Minister was urged to address the operation of mines without requisite water use licences acting with impunity exacerbating...
7 February 2012
(Press release)
Media Release - Mining-Environment-Communities Alliance:
Statement for the Mining Indaba
7 February 2012
1. For the past two years, there has been ongoing engagement between civil society, community organisations, academic institutions and law clinics increasingly concerned about the impacts of mining on the environment and on the communities that rely on...
15 December 2011
(News)
In recent months the judiciary has come under attack for being anti-transformative. Yet the Constitutional Court’s most recent judgments reveal its true transformative credentials. They also reveal the transformative potential of the judiciary generally. The violent dispossession wrought by colonialism and apartheid left millions of people without secure access to land. We continue to...
7 December 2011
(Press release)
Today the Constitutional Court delivered two unanimous judgments in favour of the occupants of Mooiplaats and Skurweplaas, located adjacent to the Itireling informal settlement in Pretoria. Lawyers for Human Rights acted on behalf of the occupiers who were to be rendered homeless, as a result of an eviction order granted by the North Gauteng High Court. Leave to appeal the High Court judgments...