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Author Archives: Jean-Andre Butcher
Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and YouTube all approved adverts featuring extreme and violent misogynistic hate speech against women journalists in South Africa, a new investigation by Global Witness and the South African public interest law firm, Legal Resources Centre (LRC), can reveal. The investigation submitted 10 adverts containing hate speech targeting women journalists to Facebook/Meta, TikTok, […]
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[Release] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LRC back in court to confront government’s lack of action on overcrowded schools In the latest development in a six-year legal battle affecting thousands of learners who attend overcrowded schools in the Eastern Cape, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) will once again appear in the Mthatha High Court on 9 November […]
Opinion Pieces
Without rhyme or reason: why we must confront government’s lack of action on overcrowded schools
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In 2018, a group of concerned Eastern Cape parents approached the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) for legal assistance. The low-fee and no-fee schools their children attended were extremely overcrowded, despite many years of pleading with local authorities to build more classrooms or reduce class sizes. Class numbers at these schools routinely exceeded 80 learners per […]