African LII 20 March 2025 By Anneke Meerkotter According to data from the World Prison Brief, there are approximately 398,206 individuals incarcerated in the SADC region. Of the 16 SADC…
Anneke Meerkotter20 March 2025
African LII 19 March 2025 By Anneke Meerkotter “The conditions are very poor … I can say beyond human living … something you cannot imagine. We would sometimes sleep on…
Anneke Meerkotter19 March 2025
AfricanLII 13 March 2025 By Anneke Meerkotter James (not his real name) is a 36-year-old man living with HIV who was convicted and sentenced to four years in Maula Prison,…
Anneke Meerkotter13 March 2025
AfricanLII 7 March 2025 By Anneke Meerkotter Apart from the budgeting process being opaque to most citizens, the political priorities in the national budget can quickly negate the needs of…
Anneke Meerkotter7 March 2025
AfricanLII 6 March 2025 By Anneke Meerkotter Climate change will wreak havoc on the SADC region, yet its impact on places of detention is seldom considered. According to World Prison…
Anneke Meerkotter6 March 2025
Polity 4 March 2025 Anneke Meerkotter Africa is at the receiving end of the impact of climate change caused by countries like America without them feeling remotely guilty or obligated…
Anneke Meerkotter4 March 2025
African Disability Rights Yearbook Volume 12 Petty policing practices: Enforcement of minor offences against persons with psychosocial disabilities in three East African countries By Anneke Meerkotter Anneke Meerkotter contributed an…
Anneke Meerkotter21 February 2025
Published on Africa.com on 22 January 2021 On 4 December 2020, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued an Advisory Opinion which challenges the very notions which underpin…
Anneke Meerkotter27 January 2021
PUBLISHED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI LAW REVIEW CAVEAT Anneke Meerkotter 74 U. Miami L. Rev. Caveat 1 (2020). Abstract For centuries, and across the world, penal laws have been…
Anneke Meerkotter15 January 2020