Category Archives: Press Releases

For Immediate Release 2 December 2021 Wild Coast communities apply for interdict to stop Shell exploration MAKHANDA — Residents from communities located along the Wild Coast have filed an application for an urgent interdict against Shell in the Makhanda High Court today to stop the petroleum company from initiating seismic survey operations for the exploration […]

For Immediate Release 15 November 2021 Supreme Court hears appeal against interim interdict in Cape Town eviction case BLOEMFONTEIN — The Legal Resources Centre will be in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the matter of the City of Cape Town v The South African Human Rights Comission and Others today. More than a […]

WINDHOEK — The Hai//om community, the largest landless San community in Namibia, will today appeal to the Namibian Supreme Court to allow them to pursue their ancestral rights even though their traditional authority has declined to litigate on their behalf against the government. The Hai//om people, like other San people, suffered genocide at the hands […]

For Immediate Release 29 September 2021 MAKHANDA — Nineteen months since a February 2020 order directing the Eastern Cape Department of Basic Education (ECDOE) and others[1] to, within 90 days, provide 65 classrooms to four severely overcrowded schools in the Transkei region of the Eastern, the LRC has had to institute legal proceedings in the […]