Author Archives: Jean-Andre Butcher

Junior Communications & Marketing Coordinator

Job Title: Junior Communications and Marketing Coordinator Location: Braamfontein, Johannesburg Working Style: Hybrid (3 days in office per work) Application Closing Date: 28 November 2025   Who we are The Legal Resources Centre is South Africa’s oldest independent non profit public interest law centre, with offices across the country. We empower individuals and communities through […]

Five Years On Military Land Blocks Cape Town’s Affordable Housing

Five Years of State Inaction on the Release of Military Land Which Could Address Cape Town’s Affordable Housing Crisis Civil society organisations to host a community workshop to mark the fifth anniversary of state inaction on the release of under-utilised military land in Cape Town for the development of affordable housing. Click the image above […]

LRC in Court to protect Clairwood from unlawful logistics plan

LRC acts in Court to protect Clairwood communities from harmful rezoning and rushed logistics plan The Legal Resources Centre appeared before the Durban High Court on 24 October on behalf of the Clairwood Ratepayers and Residents Association in two related matters against eThekwini Municipality. Both cases concern the Municipality’s long standing plan to turn Clairwood […]

PILG 2025: From Legal Promises to Public Accountability

Next week, public interest lawyers, activists and community organisers gather at Wits University for the Public Interest Law Gathering on 22 to 23 October under the theme “Unfinished Freedom: interrogating the leaps between legal promises and lived realities.” The title is well chosen. South Africa’s institutions have accumulated policies, frameworks and court rulings that ought […]