Programme News
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...
11 June 2012
(News)
Court nod for them to build in posh area: GROUP of informal dwellers living in a shanty town in Moreleta Park, informally known as Plastic View, has won the right not to only stay – but to build houses in one of the city’s most affluent areas.
PICTURE: PHILL MAGAKOE Squatters in Moreleta Park have been given the nod to build homes in one of the most affluent areas of the city,...
3 June 2012
(Press release)
Corruption Watch (CW) and the Social Justice Coalition (SJC) have filed a joint application for leave to intervene as co-applicants in Part B of the matter of Freedom Under Law v National Director of Public Proseuctions, case No. 26912/2012 brought in the North Gauteng High Court. In addition to the grounds of challenge raised in the principal application, the application brought by the SJC...
18 May 2012
(Press release)
The Eastern Cape High Court has refused to grant the Department of Home Affairs leave to appeal a decision which held that they may not close the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office. The High Court delivered its judgment on the 14th May. This was in response to an application by Home Affairs to appeal an order which directed them to re-open the Port Elizabeth Refugee Reception Office. The...
18 May 2012
(Press release)
Significant victory for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid -Joint statement from South African, Palestinian and US organisations - Open Shuhada Street; Lawyers for Human Rights; Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (SA); Palestine Solidarity Forum (UCT); Popular Struggle Coordination Committee (Palestine) and Stolen Beauty Ahava Campaign...
9 May 2012
(News)
In what has been hailed as a landmark judgment for the victims of human rights abuses and the public in general, the Pretoria High Court ruled that the South African authorities have a duty to investigate Zimbabwean officials implicated in acts of torture in that country.
Judge Hans Fabricius found that the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NPA), the head of the Priority Crimes...
4 May 2012
(News)
The Ecumenical Service for Socio-Economic Transformation (ESSET) condemns in the strongest possible terms the punching and kicking of an informal trader, Andries Ndlovu by four uniformed metro police officers in Ivory Park, Midrand. According to Sunday Times, Ndlovu was beaten on Freedom Day after he asked the metro police officers why they were beating another informal trader, a 60-year-old...
3 May 2012
(News)
THE decision by the Tshwane Metro Council to implode the problematic Schubart Park flats has been put on hold, pending an application to the Constitutional Court by the tenants to return to their homes. Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) was geared up to approach the Pretoria High Court today for an urgent application to halt the implosion of the building pending the final outcome of an application...
13 April 2012
(Press release)
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, let me express our appreciation that you have once again taken the time to join us for our weekly media briefing.
Today, we would like to brief you on our operations at Refugee Reception Offices with particular reference to the Marabastad Office and its satellite office at the Pretoria Showgrounds as well as a review of our Easter operations.
Operations at...
11 April 2012
(Press release)
The North Gauteng High Court today delivered judgment in the case of Lawyers for Human Rights v Rules Board for Courts of Law and Another, case no 78163/2009.
This was an application challenging the constitutionality of new rules for judicial review passed by the Rules Board and approved by the Minister of Justice. All parties agreed that the rules would not be implemented until the...