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Senate Masupha pursues women’s right to chieftainship : Senate Masupha and Others v Kingdom of Lesotho Equality RightsEquality Rights Ongoing CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Ongoing CasesLesothoSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights Ongoing CasesSocio-economic Rights Ongoing Cases

Senate Masupha pursues women’s right to chieftainship : Senate Masupha and Others v Kingdom of Lesotho

On 9 September 2014, Senate Masupha, the Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Lesotho) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) submitted a complaint to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’…
Staff Writer
29 September 2014
Botswana: Women’s inheritance rights under customary law BotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights Completed CasesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Completed CasesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Completed CasesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights Completed Cases

Botswana: Women’s inheritance rights under customary law

SALC supported a case in Botswana before the High Court challenging a customary law rule which provides only for male inheritance of the family home.The case was an appeal from…
Staff Writer
3 September 2013
Botswana Court to hear appeal to decision allowing women to inherit under customary law BotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights News

Botswana Court to hear appeal to decision allowing women to inherit under customary law

Gaborone – On Friday 19 July, the Court of Appeal in Gaborone, Botswana will hear arguments in Ramantele v Mmusi and Others, an appeal from a High Court decision striking down…
Staff Writer
18 July 2013
Lesotho denies women right to be Chiefs ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights ResourcesEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesLesothoSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSocio-economic Rights Resources

Lesotho denies women right to be Chiefs

Business Day Business Day, Ernest Mabuza, May 17 2013–The Johannesburg-based Southern Africa Litigation Centre branded Thursday a dark day for women in Lesotho after the mountain kingdom’s Constitutional Court upheld…
Staff Writer
17 May 2013
Lesotho Court fails women by denying them the right to succeed to chieftainship Equality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights News

Lesotho Court fails women by denying them the right to succeed to chieftainship

Johannesburg, 16 May – Lesotho’s Constitutional Court today struck a serious blow against women’s rights and gender equality by upholding a discriminatory section of the Chieftainship Act, which denies all daughters…
Staff Writer
16 May 2013
An exciting week in court for SALC: Freedom of expression, the right to equality, refugee law and international criminal law ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesInternational Justice ArticlesInternational Justice War CrimesInternational Justice War Crimes ArticlesLesothoSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSouth AfricaZambia

An exciting week in court for SALC: Freedom of expression, the right to equality, refugee law and international criminal law

SALC will be in the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the South Gauteng High Court, the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court and the Lesotho High Court this week for cases that deal…
Caroline James
15 May 2013
Ghost of the SADC tribunal haunts Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Constitutional Court ArticlesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsSouth AfricaZimbabwe

Ghost of the SADC tribunal haunts Zimbabwe in South Africa’s Constitutional Court

A group of Zimbabwean farmers dispossessed of their land in Zimbabwe’s controversial land redistribution policy will face off against the Zimbabwean government in the South African Constitutional Court today. This…
Staff Writer
28 February 2013
Zimbabwe: Police attempt to raid peace project offices at night ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

Zimbabwe: Police attempt to raid peace project offices at night

SW Radio By Tichaona Sibanda On Monday night police in Harare tried to search the offices of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, six hours after they had earlier stormed the same…
Staff Writer
12 February 2013
How Zimbabwean’s land case ended up in South Africa’s legal system ArticlesSocio-Economic RightsSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

How Zimbabwean’s land case ended up in South Africa’s legal system

The Business Day DISPOSSESSED Zimbabwean farmer Mike Campbell was able to take his case to the judiciary in South Africa because of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal decision,…
Staff Writer
28 January 2013
Judgment on the Anglican church case in Zimbabwe – a reminder to evaluate our values and principles Equality RightsEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights NewsSocio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights NewsZimbabwe

Judgment on the Anglican church case in Zimbabwe – a reminder to evaluate our values and principles

Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, President Mugabe and Archbishop of Cape Town, Thabo Makgoba at their meeting on 10 October 2011 On 19 November 2012, the Zimbabwe Supreme Court…
Staff Writer
21 November 2012

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