JOSIAS van Zyl, MD of Swissborough Diamond Mines, and eight other mining companies in dispute with Lesotho, have applied to the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal to set aside…
Staff Writer28 January 2011
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…
Staff Writer11 November 2010
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…
Staff Writer8 November 2010
Plus News JOHANNESBURG, 30 August 2010 (PlusNews) – Veronica* did not realize she had been sterilized while giving birth to her daughter until four years later when, after failing to…
Staff Writer30 October 2010
Business Day By Nicole Fritz AS EXPECTED, SA has again won a seat on the United Nations Security Council. With a security council almost unprecedented in its heavyweight make-up, the…
Staff Writer13 October 2010
Johannesburg – Civil society from throughout southern Africa today protested the suspension of the SADC Tribunal, petitioning the SADC Secretary General Tomaz Salomão and Ministers of Justice of the various…
Staff Writer4 October 2010
By Nicole Fritz and Lloyd Kuveya Outside the international lawyer’s world, the European Court on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms generates little scintillating debate. And yet it is an institution…
Staff Writer17 August 2010
By Nicole Fritz AMONG those who do human rights work and who are inclined to sackcloth and ashes, model Naomi Campbell’s testimony at the Special Court for Sierra Leone caused…
Staff Writer17 August 2010
SALC, together with the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), is urging the High Court of Gauteng to review, declare unlawful and invalid, and set aside the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) refusal…
Staff Writer30 July 2010
The Mail and Guardian learned on Tuesday that detained Zimbabwean human rights defender Farai Maguwu had been removed from the notorious Matapi police cells in Harare. "Sometime on Saturday, he…
Staff Writer15 June 2010