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Welcome to the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC)

SALC promotes and advances human rights and the rule of law in Southern Africa, primarily through strategic litigation and capacity-strengthening support to lawyers and grassroots organisations. SALC also provides small grants to community-based organisations.

SALC works in the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, LesothoMalawiMozambiqueNamibiaEswatini, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In addition, SALC supports litigation in South African courts that advances human rights in the southern African region.

SALC’s work is streamlined into five thematic clusters:

Recent Posts

Criminal Justice Criminal Law Reform

Parliament adopts report to review vagrancy offences in Penal Code

On 4 September 2024, the Parliament of Malawi adopted the report by the legal affairs committee to review vagrancy offences in the Penal Code. This follows a 2017 judgement by…
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SUPREME COURT IGNORES RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: UPHOLDS SEDITION

15 August 2024 – On 13 August 2024, the Eswatini Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgement in the case of Prime Minister of Eswatini and Another v Thulani Maseko…
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Landmark ruling on Rastafarian children
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Amendment decriminalises consensual sex between adolescents
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Activists welcome court ruling on undocumented immigrants
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A Blow to Freedom of Expression in Eswatini
Criminal Justice Criminal Prison Reform Ongoing Cases
NEWS RELEASE: Malawi High Court upholds protection of undocumented immigrants from arbitrary and indefinite detention.
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SA High Court requires State to suspend arms exports to countries engaged in coups, war crimes and genocide

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