Category Archives: Media Statement

Media Statement 26 March 2021 Victory for the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign as Equality Court orders the Labia to screen the film A Roadmap to Apartheid CAPE TOWN — The Legal Resources Centres welcomes the judgment from the Western Cape High Court delivered today in two matters involving the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) and the Labia […]

Media Statement 4 February 2021 LRC welcomes Constitutional Court ruling in RICA case Johannesburg — The Legal Resources Centre welcomes the Constitutional Court ruling this morning that specific provisions of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act 70 of 2002 (RICA) are invalid. The LRC represented both Privacy International and […]

Media Statement 1 February 2021 Children without birth certificates temporarily protected from losing their grants  The Children’s Institute (CI) and Legal Resources Centre (LRC) have secured a temporary victory in the fight to protect children without birth certificates from repeatably losing their child support grants (CSGs). On Monday, 25 January 2021, the South African Social […]

Media Statement 28 January 2021 LRC withdraws Equality Court challenge against South African National Defence Force CAPE TOWN — The Legal Resources Centre has filed a Notice of Withdrawal in the Equality Court in the Isaacs v Minister of Defence and Military Veterans matter. In 2019 the LRC took on the case of Major Fatima […]