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Shaping South Africa’s Constitution

The Legal Resources Centre played a pivotal role in drafting South Africa’s Constitution, helping to enshrine democratic values, social justice, and human rights, while continuing to protect and promote these principles through strategic litigation and advocacy in the post-apartheid era. As South Africa transitioned from apartheid to democracy, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) played a […]

Looking back on our awareness campaign around the recent legal amendments to African customary and civil marriages

In 2021, and in partnership with the Canadian High Commission in South Africa, we set out to create awareness around a trilogy of cases that brought equality in marriage rights to as many as 400 000 elderly, married black women. Marriage laws such as the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (RCMA), the Natal Code, and the […]

Working to create awareness on recent legal amendments to African customary and civil marriages

We are excited to kick off the “trilogy advocacy campaign” which will see us partner with grassroots organisations and community radio stations to share information about recent rulings on laws that unfairly discriminated against married black women. With this campaign, we want to bring these rulings to the attention of about 400 000 elderly black women […]