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CSOs Congratulate IOM on Repatriation of Orville Isaac Etoria Civic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights EventsCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

CSOs Congratulate IOM on Repatriation of Orville Isaac Etoria

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) welcomes Jamaican national Orville Isaac Etoria’s return to his home country, through the support of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), where he will…
Melusi Simelane
24 September 2025
LGBTIQ+ activists tell court customary law irrelevant ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEswatini

LGBTIQ+ activists tell court customary law irrelevant

Mbabane, Eswatini, 27 August 25: The Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM) has approached the High Court on the case Simelane (N.O.) & Others v Minister of Commerce & Others,…
Staff Writer
27 August 2025
Government of Eswatini dodges Court: US-Eswatini deportations case adjourned ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEswatini

Government of Eswatini dodges Court: US-Eswatini deportations case adjourned

Mbabane, Eswatini, 22 August 2025: In the ongoing High Court case filed on 14 August 2025 by the Eswatini Litigation Centre, Swaziland Rural Women’s Assembly, and Southern Africa Litigation Centre…
Staff Writer
22 August 2025
Press freedom in Africa an illusion, despite constitutional promises ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSADC

Press freedom in Africa an illusion, despite constitutional promises

Mail & Guardian Tambudzai Manjonjo & Melusi Simelane 19 August 2025 As outlined in international human rights treaties and the constitutions of most African countries, freedom of expression is a…
Tambudzai Gonese
19 August 2025
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Amendments to the voluntary organisations Act threatens civic space in Zimbabwe ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights News

Amendments to the voluntary organisations Act threatens civic space in Zimbabwe

Mail & Guardian  27 May 2025 Melusi Simelane In a nation where democratic space is already under suffocating pressure, Zimbabwe’s new Private Voluntary Organisations (Amendment) Act, 2024 (PVO Act) arrives…
Melusi Simelane
3 June 2025
Running from the past? Afrikaner ‘refugees’ leave South Africa amid controversy and irony ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSouth Africa

Running from the past? Afrikaner ‘refugees’ leave South Africa amid controversy and irony

Polity 13 May 2025 Makhosemvelo Mthembu They once ruled the land through oppression and law. Now, they claim to be fleeing the country they once controlled. But can you genuinely…
Makhosemvelo Mthembu
13 May 2025
eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEswatini

eSwatini’s 20 years of constitutionalism characterised by a crackdown on freedom of expression

Mail & Guadian  8 May 2025 Melusi Simelane Although the African Union has declared 2025 the year of reparations, justice for Africans and people of African descent through reparations, many…
Staff Writer
8 May 2025
Reform the African criminal justice system, starting with prisons oversight ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformEswatiniMalawi

Reform the African criminal justice system, starting with prisons oversight

Mail & Guardian 14 April 2025 By Melusi Simelane & Chikondi Chikozi In a world increasingly defined by impunity and political repression, the erosion of the rights once championed by…
Chikondi Chijozi
14 April 2025

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