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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, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini, 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:

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Compulsory NGO registration – a death knell to activism?

Botswana Guardian 30 May 2025 By Tambudzai-Gonese-Manjonjo There is a rising trend of countries in the region enacting laws that compel all non-governmental organisations to register in order to operate…
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Lesotho is an example of the power of communities

A Pride event in Lesotho (Photo courtesy of the People's Matrix Association) Washington Blade (27 May 2025) By Tampose Mothopeng and Bradley Fortuin People’s Matrix Association’s tangible policy reforms have changed…
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Urgent call to fully establish land dispute structures in Malawi and ensure adequate representation of women
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When it comes to foreign aid cuts, we need to move from grief to action
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The badge we fear
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Running from the past? Afrikaner ‘refugees’ leave South Africa amid controversy and irony
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A national crisis ignored
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eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression

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