On this International Day of Rural Women, we the undersigned organisations, call on African governments to ensure that rural women are a central focus in the implementation of the newly…
Johannesburg: The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) expresses deep concern at the African National Congress’s recent calls for South Africa’s withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. …
Eye Witness News 6 October 2015 JOHANNESBURG – The Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) has urged government to continue communicating with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resolve the dispute…
Maseru – On Monday 5 October 2015, the Maseru High Court, per Justice Makara, ordered that the close arrest of 23 soldiers by the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) is unlawful…
24 September 2015 The South African government’s failure to arrest President Bashir was ruled to be unconstitutional and invalid by the North Gauteng High Court and this failure continues to…
Business Day Live THE government has turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal, asking it to overturn the High Court order that it must arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, saying…
29 September 2015 Malawi Nation Migration experts say Malawi lies on the South Road, an unchartered route for irregular migrants from the Horn of Africa in their trek to South…
Star Africa 24 September 2015 Botswana’s Ministry of Health has issued a savingram to all relevant departments ordering the dispensary of Anti-Retroviral Therapy-ARV treatment to all foreign inmates, APA learnt…
The New Age 21 September 2015 The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is taking its fight – for war-crimes accused Rwandan general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa’s refugee status to be revoked…
Thought Leader By Angela Mudukuti 21 September 2015 On September 16, the North Gauteng High Court denied the South African government leave to appeal in the case pertaining to Sudanese…
On Wednesday 16 September 2015, SALC attended a hearing in the Lesotho High Court in the matter of Mareka and 22 others v the Commander of the Lesotho Defence Force and…
EWN 17 September 2015 The High Court dismissed government’s application for leave to appeal a previous order. PRETORIA – The Southern African Litigation Centre says the latest ruling on Sudanese…
All Africa 15 September 2015 The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) is considering a petition to the Appeal Court over a court ruling that a former Rwandan general and alleged…
The conviction and six-year prison sentence imposed on human rights activist José Marcos Mavungo is a travesty of justice and a blatant violation of the right to freedom of expression,…
Today’s proceedings were focused on discussion about the constitutionality of the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act. This piece of legislation is one of two (the other being the Suppression of…
On Tuesday, 7 September 2015, the Swazi High Court began hearing the constitutional challenges brought against the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Sedition and Subversive Activities Act. This hearing…
Huffington Post JOHANNESBURG — On April 15 of this year, Themba Maphosa awoke to news that five immigrants had been killed by South African gangs the previous night in Durban.…
Right 2 Know (R2K), the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), and the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), in collaboration with the Wits Journalism School, present a discussion on: “Threats to…
Right 2 Know (R2K), the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC), and the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI), in collaboration with the Wits Journalism School, present a discussion on: “Threats to…
BBC News 26 August 2015 Botswana’s court of appeal has upheld a ruling that foreign prisoners should receive free treatment for HIV/Aids, rights lawyers say. Foreign prisoners were previously expected…