Category Archives: Constitutional Court

Traditional Authorities Challenged

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. […]

Extradition and the death penalty

South Africa stands by constitutional and international principles The following is an extract from the Legal Resources Centre 2012 Annual Report The LRC represented the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty earlier in 2012 in a Constitutional Court case concerning the extradition of two Botswana nationals on murder charges. Mr Tsebe and Mr […]