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Rule of Law

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.
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5 simple things that could get you arrested in Angola

Muluka Miti-Drummond 7 July 2015 Thought Leader When people think of Angola many think of the 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002. Some might even think of oil and…
Staff Writer
7 July 2015
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SADC leaders duplicitous in axing tribunal

Mail&Guardian By Nicole Fritz 7 September 2012 So often are the winds of change said to blow through the southern reaches of Africa that the uninformed might think there are…
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7 September 2012
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Tutu: SADC decision on tribunal is a blow against accountable government and individual rights

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has responded to the SADC Summit’s decision  to deny SADC peoples access to the Tribunal, calling the decision “a tragedy. It is a blow against accountable government and individual…
Staff Writer
22 August 2012
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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…
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23 August 2011