Photo: Tshepo Madlingozi The fast pace of legal practice and constant demand on your faculties and capacity in the public interest sector is often a distraction from gaining perspective about our growth as young social justice lawyers. The Bertha convenings serve as important periods for pausing and stretching our minds. The first year of the fellowship […]
Author Archives: Jean-Andre Butcher
Children's Rights, Education, Refugees and Asylum Seekers, Social Security
The Nameless Ones: Educating Undocumented Learners
12
Dec
Dec
Thousands of learners across South Africa are being excluded from schools as a result of their failure to provide their schools with identity numbers, passports or permits. This follows the announcement by various provincial departments of education that funding transfers to schools for the Norms and Standards, post provisioning allocation and National School Nutrition Programme […]
12
Dec
Dec
(featured photo of Lunga Siyo, LRC, and Mandisa Shandu, Ndifuna Ukwazi) I am black-African, young and female, and working in the public interest sector. This is what it means to me: It means that some of us are first generation graduates; we work with the added pressure of making money in order to financially support our […]
Human Rights, Leadership, Legal Resources Centre, South Africa, Uncategorized
Bertha Convening: A Synergy for Change
05
Dec
Dec
Transfixed in my seat, feeling the energy of a collective striving for change and human rights – this is how I felt at the 2017 Bertha Convening, where I sat amongst peers championing for human rights. In reflection, the Convening truly provided a rare opportunity for legal peers and community representatives from different platforms around […]