Citizens have no choice but to wonder if their members of Parliament are making laws informed by the needs of the citizens or whether they are pushing ideologies and needs…
Staff Writer11 June 2024
SALC’s Rule of Law work is integrated within its other programmatic areas and focuses on the following objectives:
- To challenge encroachments on judicial independence.
- To challenge practices where the executive seeks to encroach on the powers of parliament or the judiciary.
Completed cases:
- Lesotho: Support wife of late Brigadier Mahau to argue against the setting aside of the findings of the SADC Commission of Inquiry into Lesotho.
- Botswana: Challenge interpretation of Constitution which allows President discretion to appoint High Court judges.
- Swaziland: Challenging lawyer and editor’s arrest and detention for contempt of court.
- Zambia: Defending anti-corruption activist charged with contempt of court.
- Lesotho: Conduct advocacy and litigation to address unlawful arrests and military detention.
Publications:
Submissions:
Advocacy:
- Are African nations putting policing over public health? (2020).
- SALC in the news: Policing of petty offences (2017).
- International Human Rights Day: SALC looks back on key developments and children in 2016 (2016).
- Court Update: Maseko and Makhubu challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and detention (2014).
Washington Blade 23 August 2023 By Anna Mmolai-Chalmers Anti-rights agenda in Africa has weaponized LGBTQ, intersex rights. Recently, in Botswana, Namibia, Uganda, Kenya and Malawi, the church has thrown the…
Anna Chalmers-Mmolai24 August 2023
9 August 2023 In view of the participation of members of South Africa’s executive and judiciary in the annual African Bar Association conference, which this year is being co-sponsored by…
Staff Writer9 August 2023
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) notes that the Uganda Law Revision (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act, 2023, has repealed some of the rogue and vagabond, sedition, and false news offences in…
Staff Writer11 July 2023
Botswana, Gaborone – 10 July 2023. Botswana’s Parliament intends to table a number of bills in the current session, one of which seeks to repeal section 164 of the Penal…
Staff Writer10 July 2023
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) supports Tshepo Junionr Sethibe through Obonye Attorneys, represented by Dr Jonas Obonye, who are challenging Section 59(1) of the Botswana Penal Code. The provision…
Staff Writer22 March 2023
In March 2021, SALC made a submission to the Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights for the Tanzania UPR 39th session. Read the submission here.
Staff Writer25 March 2021
Annabel Raw & Caroline James Friday 22 January is the international Day of the Endangered Lawyer. It is a day in which we draw focus on those in the legal profession…
Staff Writer22 January 2016
Daily Maverick By Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh Lesotho has faced repeated political and security crises over many years. Politics in the impoverished mountain kingdom has been marked by coups and assassinations and…
Staff Writer30 October 2015
Jacaranda FM Former Swazi political prisoners Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko have demanded multi-million rand settlements from King Mswati’s government for wrongful imprisonment. Makhubu, a newsmagazine editor, and Maseko, an…
Staff Writer23 October 2015