Category Archives: Governance

West Point Lodge families sheltered from eviction

Please note that this article is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s Annual Report 2012 In February 2011, the Organisation of Civic Rights approached the LRC seeking assistance for approximately 58 families who lived in a Durban inner-city building called West Point Lodge. The LRC represented the occupants in an effort to compel the […]

Goverance and the Human Rights Challenge in Africa

Last week I attended an African regional dialogue at the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand, Gauteng, to discuss the “Post-2015 Development Framework”, a pseudonym for the vision of development after the expiration of targets for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Considering the discussion centred on governance in Africa, subsequent thoughts on the meeting have been in […]