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Lesotho law banning women from becoming chiefs is unconstitutional and must be repealed, says SALC BotswanaEquality RightsEquality Rights NewsEquality Rights WomenLesothoTanzania

Lesotho law banning women from becoming chiefs is unconstitutional and must be repealed, says SALC

Johannesburg—The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) today joined the fight to repeal parts of Lesotho’s discriminatory Chieftainship Act, which only allows the first-born son to succeed to chieftainship, by filing…
Staff Writer
17 January 2012
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Closing the impunity gap: Southern Africa’s role in securing justice for 1994 Rwanda Genocide

Drawing on the outcomes of the Conference, “Closing the Impunity Gap: Southern Africa’s Role in Securing Justice for the 1994 Rwandan Genocide”, organised by SALC, REDRESS and African Rights, this…
Staff Writer
24 December 2011
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Group warns new version of secrecy bill makes access to information more difficult ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights NewsSouth Africa

Group warns new version of secrecy bill makes access to information more difficult

The Business Day CIVIL society groups yesterday warned that the new version of the Protection of State Information Bill makes access to information more difficult than ever before. The PAIA…
Staff Writer
28 October 2011
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Obiang visit ‘further blow’ so SA’s battered rights reputation

The Business Day EQUATORIAL Guinea’s controversial head of state Teodoro Obiang Nguema will receive a red carpet reception in Pretoria tomorrow as alarm over SA’s foreign policy decisions grows. The…
Staff Writer
20 October 2011
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Swazi lawyers march over judge’s sacking ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights Judicial Independence ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

Swazi lawyers march over judge’s sacking

The Mail&Guardian Anti-government protest is gathering pace in Swaziland, with lawyers now taking to the street alongside labour unions, teachers, taxi drivers and banned political parties. The kingdom’s lawyers marched…
Staff Writer
7 October 2011
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International shock at judge’s dismissal

MBABANE – International lawyers’ associations have reacted with alarm to the sacking of High Court Judge, Justice Thomas Masuku. Swazi Times The formations say this action speaks of clear contempt…
Staff Writer
2 October 2011
Justice Thomas Masuku fired ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights ExpressionCivic Rights Expression ArticlesCivic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights Judicial Independence ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatini

Justice Thomas Masuku fired

MBABANE – High Court Judge Thomas Masuku has been dismissed from the bench. This publication has reliably gathered that the authorities have issued a decision that Judge Masuku’s position as…
Staff Writer
29 September 2011
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Joint statement: Support for the Swaziland and Law Society as judicial crisis escalates Civic RightsCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights NewsEswatini

Joint statement: Support for the Swaziland and Law Society as judicial crisis escalates

The Southern Africa Development Community Lawyers Association (SADC LA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) note the unprecedented action on the part of Swaziland lawyers who, on Wednesday 21…
Staff Writer
23 September 2011
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Outcry over secretive hearing on Swazi judge ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights Judicial Independence ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatiniRule of Law

Outcry over secretive hearing on Swazi judge

The Mail&Guardian National and international law bodies on Monday strongly criticised the closed-door hearings conducted by Swaziland’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against Judge Thomas Masuku. The Law Society of South…
Staff Writer
23 August 2011
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‘Judge’s hearing was flawed’ ArticlesCivic RightsCivic Rights ArticlesCivic Rights Democratic GovernanceCivic Rights Democratic Governance ArticlesCivic Rights Judicial IndependenceCivic Rights Judicial Independence ArticlesCivic Rights NewsEswatiniRule of Law

‘Judge’s hearing was flawed’

Times of Swaziland MBABANE – The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has raised a number of procedures that were flawed during the hearing of High Court Judge Justice Thomas Masuku…
Staff Writer
17 August 2011

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