Pretoria: On Friday, 26 September 2014, the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled that Rwandan General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa is entitled to refugee status in South Africa, despite a challenge brought by the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in…
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President Jacob Zuma is party to a regional pact that makes the application of law discriminatory. In the pomp and ceremony surrounding the 34th Southern African Development Community summit of heads of state and government – the annual gathering of…
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The Sunday Independent To insist, as Israel does, that the people of Gaza have the power themselves to end their suffering, when one in five of those dead is a child, is callously disingenuous, writes Nicole Fritz. Let’s assume that…
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Business Day Live JUST an ordinary piece of business — an announcement at the end of the African Union’s (AU’s) recent summit of heads of state and government in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, that it had voted to adopt the Protocol…
Read More SW Radio Africa The South African authorities have been accused of abusing the country’s court processes, after filing another appeal against a landmark order to probe crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe. Last year, the Supreme Court of Appeal upheld…
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Nicole Fritz The Business Day PRESIDENT Jacob Zuma, addressing a Commonwealth parliamentary conference earlier this month, called on delegates not to remain silent “when one country is being bombed to ashes before our eyes”. It was plain he was referring…
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Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) condemns the arrest of MDC parliamentary candidate Arnold Tsunga and 50 supporters on 20 July 2013, and the banning of a political rally in Harare. The disruption and denial by Zimbabwean police of peaceful…
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SALC has written to Zambian President Sata expressing its concern at the targeting of journalists allegedly operating the Zambian Watchdog online news publication. Thomas Zganbo and Clayson Hamasaka have been charged with sedition and/or insulting the President. These types of…
Read More Ahead of the opening of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York next week, heads of state and government will convene for a meeting on the “rule of law at the national and international levels”. This is the…
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LAST week, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that SA’s investigating and prosecuting authorities must investigate systematic torture amounting to crimes against humanity committed in Zimbabwe. Those investigations may result in prosecutions and currently hold the best chance of Zimbabwean…
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