The Tribunal has been suspended for over a year as a result of its landmark ruling against the Robert Mugabe regime SW Radio The 2008 ruling that Zimbabwe’s land grab…
Yesterday, the High Court in Botswana heard final arguments in a case challenging the Ngwaketse customary law rule which permits only for male inheritance of the family home. Previously, the Court had…
The Mail& Guardian The authoritarian reaction of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to a judgment handed down by the SADC Tribunal in favour of dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers could blow…
Business Day THE African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights has made a preliminary ruling that it will hear a complaint about the effective suspension of the Southern African Development…
On 22 and 23 February 2012, the Lesotho Constitutional Court will hear a case challenging a women’s right to succeed to chieftainship in Lesotho. The case brought by Senate Masupha,…
Financial Mail A host of legal organisations have started to ratchet up pressure on regional governments to restore the functioning of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) tribunal. Its work…
The Namibian SADC heads of state have been accused of acting unconstitutionally by effectively suspending the work of the SADC Tribunal. The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) in Johannesburg says…
A RECENT decision by the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit means an “effective suspension” of the Sadc tribunal, which will deny Sadc citizens redress, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) said last…
Compared to many of the cases in which we are involved (defending Monjeza and Chimbalanga against charges of buggery, challenging the coerced sterilization of HIV positive women), holding Zimbabwean perpetrators of violence to…