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SALC announced as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists

Global Centre for Pluralism announces Southern Africa Litigation Centre as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists South African organization recognized for supporting marginalized populations across 12 countries through…
Staff Writer
25 September 2025
CSOs Congratulate IOM on Repatriation of Orville Isaac Etoria Civic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights EventsCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

CSOs Congratulate IOM on Repatriation of Orville Isaac Etoria

The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) welcomes Jamaican national Orville Isaac Etoria’s return to his home country, through the support of the International Organisation of Migration (IOM), where he will…
Melusi Simelane
24 September 2025
Zambian communities sue mining giants over spill disaster Socio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Climate JusticeSocio-economic Rights ExtractivesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-economic Rights NewsZambia

Zambian communities sue mining giants over spill disaster

Johannesburg/Lusaka – On 12 September 2025, 176 residents of Kalusale, Chambishi, in Zambia’s Copperbelt province, launched a landmark case in the High Court of Zambia against Sino Metals Leach Zambia…
Staff Writer
16 September 2025
Zambia: Corporate accountability for pollution of vital water resources and the environment Socio-Economic RightsSocio-economic Rights Climate JusticeSocio-economic Rights Climate Justice Ongoing CasesSocio-economic Rights ExtractivesSocio-Economic Rights Extractives Ongoing CasesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights Ongoing CasesSocio-economic Rights Ongoing CasesZambia

Zambia: Corporate accountability for pollution of vital water resources and the environment

Peter Shula & 165 Others v Sino Metals Leach Zambia Limited & NFC Africa Mining Limited On 12 September 2025, 176 residents of Kalusale, Chambishi, Kalulushi District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia…
Staff Writer
15 September 2025
Zambia’s Historic First: Legal capacity Communication submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights DisabilityEquality Rights Disability ArticlesZambia

Zambia’s Historic First: Legal capacity Communication submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

On 21 August 2025, The Validity Foundation, together with the Mental Health Users Network of Zambia (MHUNZA) and Disability Rights Watch (DRW) with the technical support of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Southern Africa…
Staff Writer
29 August 2025
LGBTIQ+ activists tell court customary law irrelevant ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEswatini

LGBTIQ+ activists tell court customary law irrelevant

Mbabane, Eswatini, 27 August 25: The Eswatini Sexual and Gender Minorities (ESGM) has approached the High Court on the case Simelane (N.O.) & Others v Minister of Commerce & Others,…
Staff Writer
27 August 2025
Government of Eswatini dodges Court: US-Eswatini deportations case adjourned ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesEswatini

Government of Eswatini dodges Court: US-Eswatini deportations case adjourned

Mbabane, Eswatini, 22 August 2025: In the ongoing High Court case filed on 14 August 2025 by the Eswatini Litigation Centre, Swaziland Rural Women’s Assembly, and Southern Africa Litigation Centre…
Staff Writer
22 August 2025
Press freedom in Africa an illusion, despite constitutional promises ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSADC

Press freedom in Africa an illusion, despite constitutional promises

Mail & Guardian Tambudzai Manjonjo & Melusi Simelane 19 August 2025 As outlined in international human rights treaties and the constitutions of most African countries, freedom of expression is a…
Tambudzai Gonese
19 August 2025
Installation of Princess Silibaziso Mlotshwa as the substantive Chief Mvuthu, a win for gender equality in Zimbabwe ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women ArticlesZimbabwe

Installation of Princess Silibaziso Mlotshwa as the substantive Chief Mvuthu, a win for gender equality in Zimbabwe

On 15 August 2025, Princess Silibaziso Mlotshwa, aged 31, was officially installed as the substantive Chief Mvuthu in Hwange District, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe. She was appointed to this position…
Staff Writer
18 August 2025
Eswatini: Challenging the US-Eswatini deportation agreement Civic RightsCivic Rights Democratic Governanace Ongoing CasesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Ongoing CasesEswatiniInternational JusticeInternational Justice Ongoing Cases

Eswatini: Challenging the US-Eswatini deportation agreement

In the Eswatini Litigation Centre and Others v Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Eswatini and Others case, the applicants seek to declare an agreement between Eswatini and the United…
Staff Writer
15 August 2025
“Not in our name!” says Eswatini activists opposing shadow US deportation planes Civic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

“Not in our name!” says Eswatini activists opposing shadow US deportation planes

Mbabane, Eswatini: 14 August 2025: The Eswatini Litigation Centre (ELC), alongside Mzwandile Banele Masuku, the Swaziland Rural Women’s Assembly (SRWA), and Melusi Simelane of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC),…
Staff Writer
14 August 2025
‘Camp courts are here to stay’ ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice ArticlesCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesMalawi

‘Camp courts are here to stay’

Polity 12 August 2025 Shilpa Rao On a Tuesday afternoon in July, a magistrate sits inside a local prison in Malawi. A remandee stands before him and begins to share…
Staff Writer
12 August 2025
Trading medicine for minerals: The Trump administration’s flawed strategy in Angola AngolaArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights HealthEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+Equality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenEquality Rights Women Articles

Trading medicine for minerals: The Trump administration’s flawed strategy in Angola

Polity 8 August Reina Patel and Riya Jain If one thing is clear about the Trump Administration’s aid cuts, it is that it will cost lives-millions of them. According to the Africa CDC,…
Staff Writer
11 August 2025
The treatment of foreign nationals in SADC prisons ArticlesCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice Criminal Law ReformCriminal Justice Criminal Law Reform ArticlesCriminal Justice NewsCriminal Justice Prison ReformCriminal Justice Prison Reform ArticlesSADC

The treatment of foreign nationals in SADC prisons

Polity 08 August 2025 Madelyn Evans The treatment of foreign nationals in prisons across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has become an increasingly urgent human rights concern. Migrants,…
Staff Writer
11 August 2025
Destroying protected forests one tree at a time: Inside Zambia’s Kasanka National Park ArticlesSocio-Economic Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights Land RightsSocio-Economic Rights Land Rights ArticlesSocio-economic Rights NewsZambia

Destroying protected forests one tree at a time: Inside Zambia’s Kasanka National Park

Kasanka National Park, located in Zambia’s Central Province, is one of the country’s most treasured protected areas. Though it is the smallest national park in Zambia, it is home to…
Staff Writer
8 August 2025
“We just kept coming to work”: How healthcare workers in Malawi are navigating the silence of the government ArticlesEquality RightsEquality Rights ArticlesEquality Rights Health ArticlesEquality Rights LGBTIQ+ ArticlesEquality Rights Women ArticlesMalawi

“We just kept coming to work”: How healthcare workers in Malawi are navigating the silence of the government

The Nation 1 August 2025 Bradley Fortuin In a government clinic in Zomba, nurse *Takondwa starts her shift just like she has for the past fifteen years by unlocking the…
Bradley Fortuin
4 August 2025

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