JOHANNESBURG – It is with shock and deep sadness that we at the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) learn about yesterday’s brutal…
Staff Writer27 January 2011
The Gazette Motswaledi’s legal bill opens debate on funding of Constitutional cases Gomolemo Motswaledi’s legal bill has opened a debate on the need for constitutional cases to be funded. The…
Staff Writer19 January 2011
In Moyo v Republic, SALC is challenging in the Malawi Constitutional Court, Section 11(1) of the Children and Young Persons Act and Section 26 of the Malawi Penal Code, which grant…
Staff Writer13 December 2010
The Windhoek High Court will continue hearing the case of three HIV-positive women who were allegedly subjected to sterilization without their consent at public hospitals in Namibia on 18 January.…
Staff Writer13 December 2010
Johannesburg – With Zimbabwe’s diamond industry still shrouded in secrecy, the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW) and three Zimbabweans have petitioned South Africa’s New Reclamation Group for access to information…
Staff Writer13 December 2010
SALC will be submitting four cases to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) arguing that the applicants’ right to liberty and due process were violated. The applicants…
Staff Writer13 December 2010
SALC has approached the Chief Justice of Malawi seeking constitutional certification in a case challenging the extortionate and arbitrary level at which bail has been set for two Malawian prisoners.…
Staff Writer13 December 2010
In light of widespread attacks against homosexuals in African states, and the criminalisation of sexual orientation in some countries, gay and lesbian rights activists are outraged by the African Commission…
Staff Writer25 November 2010
SALC is challenging the fact that terminally ill remandees have no opportunity to provide evidence to an independent arbiter on the state of their health. This presents a serious challenge…
Staff Writer21 November 2010
In Mkula et al vs the Republic SALC advanced arguments that the length of detention of the applicants was in breach of their constitutional right to a trial within a…
Staff Writer20 November 2010
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
Mmegi Online The issue of whether to distribute condoms in prisons is a hot potato that has pitted the government against AIDS organisations. It has pitted Vice-President Mompati Merafhe, against…
Staff Writer5 October 2010
The Business Day By Alan Wallis SPAIN wants him. Rwanda wants him. Given his questionable asylum status, SA seems to want him too. And let’s not forget there is also…
Staff Writer4 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
Nyasa Times Malawi’s Vice president, Joyce Banda, has urged the faith leaders to open up on same sex partners in order for the country to make significant strides in the…
Staff Writer29 September 2010
The Mail&Guardian The criticism that the International Criminal Court (ICC) was against African countries was unfair, Judge Richard Goldstone said on Monday. "It is unfair to say the court is…
Staff Writer28 September 2010
The Business Day UNTIL the last 15 years of the 20th century, international criminal justice did not exist. Since the establishment by the United Nations (UN) of the International Criminal…
Staff Writer21 September 2010