The Thought Leader, Mail&Guardian By Anneke Meerkotter The first thing you are confronted with when you walk into the service section of the South African embassy in Harare is a…
Anneke Meerkotter24 May 2012
Increasingly, leaders in Africa are able to propagate hate speech against LGBT persons with shameless impunity. On 10 May 2012, for example, at a community gathering, the Zimbabwean Minister of Local…
Staff Writer17 May 2012
The Business Day By Nicole Fritz LAST week, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that SA’s investigating and prosecuting authorities must investigate systematic torture amounting to crimes against humanity committed…
Nicole Fritz16 May 2012
Yesterday, the Botswana High Court heard arguments in Mmusi and Others v Ramantele and Another, a case challenging the Ngwaketse customary law rule which provides for male-only inheritance of the…
Staff Writer15 May 2012
Times Live HEADSTRONG: Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa says the court ruling in South Africa is irrelevant. Zanu-PF was dealt a blow this week when a high court…
Staff Writer13 May 2012
Sky News A South African judge has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government committed human rights abuses. The ruling on Tuesday by Judge Hans Fabricius is…
Staff Writer9 May 2012
Reuters JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African court ruled on Tuesday its legal system can be used to investigate and prosecute citizens of neighbouring Zimbabwe suspected of crimes against humanity.…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
BBC South Africa must investigate Zimbabwean officials over allegations they tortured opposition figures in 2007, a Pretoria high court has ruled. Under international law, South Africa has a duty to…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
IOL Pretoria – South Africa is obliged under international law to probe alleged atrocities by officials in Zimbabwe, the High Court in Pretoria ruled on Tuesday. Judge Hans Fabricius ordered…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
FOX News PRETORIA, South Africa – A South African judge on Tuesday ordered prosecutors to investigate whether Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s government committed human rights abuses against his rivals ahead…
Staff Writer8 May 2012
This case concerns the rights of detainees and the significance of health considerations in determining bail in Malawi. It followed the arrest of a 15 year old boy, Mr Mphembedzu, on…
Staff Writer30 April 2012
From 25 – 26 April 2012, SALC will host a meeting to discuss an advocacy strategy aimed at increasing access to and availability of cervical cancer prevention and treatment services…
Staff Writer24 April 2012
Last year SALC secured bail for a seriously ill prisoner in the case of Mphembedzu v The Republic MHC Bail Case No. 70 of 2011. This case sought to profile health issues…
Staff Writer23 April 2012
The Mail&Guardian 30 March 2012 In Lesotho, Tabitha Phaloane was a village chief, governing the affairs of about 3 000 rural people. In Johannesburg she is a domestic worker, taking…
Staff Writer30 March 2012
The Mail&Guardian Divisions within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) continued to widen in the North Gauteng High Court on Thursday with state prosecutor Chris Macadam accusing his colleague, Anton Ackermann,…
Staff Writer30 March 2012
IOL A Pretoria High Court judge questioned what recourse the victims of crimes against humanity in Zimbabwe had, if the South African police and the National Prosecuting Authority refused to…
Staff Writer29 March 2012
The Business Day CITING threats and intimidation from his colleagues, the head of the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA’s) Priority Crimes Litigation Unit, Anton Ackermann, has switched sides and come out…
Staff Writer27 March 2012
Daily Maverick Diplomatic relations between South Africa and Zimbabwe have been a far cry from what they were during the Thabo Mbeki’s “quiet diplomacy”. A case currently being heard in…
Staff Writer27 March 2012
The Mail&Guardian Suspended prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane appears to be at the centre of an attempt to thwart the prosecution in South Africa of Zimbabwean government officials accused of torture.…
Staff Writer26 March 2012
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…
Staff Writer16 March 2012