This brief is written to support engagements around legal gender recognition between the Government of Zimbabwe and organisations advocating for the rights of transgender, gender diverse and intersex individuals in…
Staff Writer21 November 2024
Between 2014 and 2024, the judges and legal community attending the annual African Regional Judges’ Forum (ARJF) have discussed various cases that have advanced human rights and equity across the…
Staff Writer27 June 2024
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre, SALC, is deeply concerned about the recent assault on Obey Shava, a prominent Zimbabwean human rights lawyer. Shava was reportedly violently attacked on the evening…
Staff Writer6 July 2023
On 31 May 2023, 28 men were arrested in Harare CBD under the country’s vagrancy laws. These arrests raise the question of why vagrancy laws still exist and are still…
Staff Writer9 June 2023
SALC is alarmed by the passing of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Amendment Bill, also known as the “Patriotic Bill”, by the lower house of Zimbabwe’s parliament, which comes…
Staff Writer8 June 2023
IOL 1 June 2023 By Tambudzai Gonese-Manjonjo The recent presidential clemency/amnesty that saw scores of serving prisoners being released from Zimbabwe’s prisons has raised many topical issues. Zimbabwe’s prisons are…
Tambudzai Gonese2 June 2023
15 Kukadzi 2023 By: VOA Shona Sangano reSouthern African Litigation Centre kana kuti SALC riri kukurudzira African Union kuti igadzirise nyaya yekusagadzikana kwezvinhu muZimbabwe nemuEswatini pamberi pesarudzo dziri kutarisirwa kuitwa…
Staff Writer15 March 2023
In light of the commencement of the 42nd Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa,…
Staff Writer14 February 2023
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre is supporting a constitutional challenge to sections 156 and 155 of the Criminal Law Act and sections 3 and 6 of the Dangerous Drugs Act.…
Staff Writer8 February 2023