Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 This year has seen the Legal Resources Centre involved in a number of cases dealing with the power of chiefs and headmen and, particularly, with the ability of traditional communities to challenge this authority and determine their own futures. […]
Author Archives: Jean-Andre Butcher
Constitution, Customary Law, Equality and Non-discrimination
Community in Dwese-Cwebe seeks recognition of customary practises
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Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 On 22 May 2012, crowds of people from villages near Dwesa-Cwebe Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape gathered outside the Elliotdale Magistrate’s Court to hear the court’s verdict on whether three men from the village of Hobeni were guilty […]
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Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 On 21 February 2012, the LRC re-launched its Immigration Project when it received reports of continued unlawful conduct on the part of immigration officials at the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp, Gauteng. Lindela is the detention facility established by […]
Disability, Equality and Non-discrimination, Human Rights, Judiciary, Litigation
Judiciary urged to review its policies
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Mar
Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 The LRC was instructed by South African National Council for the Blind and the League of Friends for the Blind to apply for their admission as amicus curiae in the case of Ms Parvathi Singh, a partially blind acting […]