South Africa: Gaza docket: SA must tighten policies on international criminal justice

21st August 2009
RECENT events have brought SA’s relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC) into shar....
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South Africa: In the end SA did the right thing

20th August 2009
IN ONE month, South Africa shifted from withholding cooperation from the International Criminal Court regarding the indictment of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to restating its support for our international obligations under the Rome Statute, which governs the court’s operations.
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Zimbabwe: MISA: Ruling says AIPPA should be amended

28th August 2009
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has ruled that the Zimbabwean government should repeal sections 79 and 80 of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) which contravenes Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights.
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Congo (DRC): Distrust of judicial system leads to spread of vigilantism and lynching.

20th August 2009
Lubumbashi (The Democratic Republic of Congo) - Lack of confidence in the legal system of the Democr....
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Breaking News: Malawi’s Constitutional Court Hands Down Evance Moyo Judgement

28th August 2009
Malawi’s Constitutional Court has determined that the imprisonment of Evance Moyo, a juvenile at the time of his arrest, alongside adult prisoners in Chichiri prison from 1997 onwards, violated Moyo’s constitutional and international law rights and ordered his immediate release. However the Court did not find that juvenile criminal sentences, served “at the pleasure of the President” are unconstitutional. The Court also declined to order compensation to Moyo.
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SADC Summit and the Generals Report on Zimbabwe

27th August 2009
In May 2008, then President Thabo Mbeki commissioned six retired South African Generals to report on allegations of violence committed in the aftermath of the first round of Zimbabwe’s elections of March 2008. That report has never been made public and the Presidency now maintains that a written report was never compiled. The report was commissioned under the auspices of Mbeki’s SADC-appointed role as facilitator of political dialogue in Zimbabwe. The existence, or non-existence of the report, has implications for the obligations owed by former President Mbeki and the current South African government to SADC, and for the obligations of SADC itself. For a more comprehensive account of these obligations, see the attached briefing document.
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