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Zimbabwe: Challenging limits on voter education Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Challenging limits on voter education

Veritas v. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission & 2 Others SALC is providing support to Veritas, a non-profit organisation based in Zimbabwe which provides publicly accessible information on the work of the…
Staff Writer
2 July 2018
Botswana: Supporting amicus curiae in challenge to publication offence BotswanaCivic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Ongoing CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Ongoing CasesCivic Rights Ongoing Cases

Botswana: Supporting amicus curiae in challenge to publication offence

The case of Attorney General v Tsodilo Services (Pty) Ltd t/a The Sunday Standard and Outsa Mokone (Media Institute of Southern Africa-Botswana as amicus curiae), is currently pending before the Lobatse…
Staff Writer
25 June 2018
NEWS RELEASE: ZIMBABWE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DISMISSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF ZIMBABWEANS IN THE DIASPORA Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights ExpressionZimbabwe

NEWS RELEASE: ZIMBABWE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DISMISSES CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF ZIMBABWEANS IN THE DIASPORA

On May 30, 2018, The Zimbabwe Constitutional Court handed down judgment in Gabriel Shumba & Others v Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs & Others. The Southern Africa Litigation…
Staff Writer
1 June 2018
Lesotho: Challenging the offence of criminal defamation Civic RightsCivic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights Association & Assembly Completed CasesCivic Rights Completed CasesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression Completed CasesLesotho

Lesotho: Challenging the offence of criminal defamation

SALC supported a case challenging the constitutionality of the offence of criminal defamation. On 6 July 2016, Basildon Peta was charged with the crime of defamation in contravention of section…
Staff Writer
21 May 2018
Civil society deeply concerned about attack on Mozambican human rights defender and threats to press freedom in Mozambique Civic Rights Association & AssemblyCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights NewsMozambique

Civil society deeply concerned about attack on Mozambican human rights defender and threats to press freedom in Mozambique

It is with sadness that the undersigned civil society organisations express deep concern about the attack on Mozambique human rights defender, Ericino de Salema, which took place in Maputo on…
Staff Writer
3 April 2018