Photo: No Fracking Signs at Prince Albert – by Danie van der Merwe (Flikr) The threat of fracking has been imminent in South Africa for almost a decade. But South Africa is just not ready for fracking. There are many detrimental effects of this mining activity on communities and the environment. The regulatory requirements to mediate […]
Category Archives: Rights to Water
Children's Rights, Constitution, Education, Gender Rights, Inequality, Legal Resources Centre, Rights to Water
The Mud Schools of the Eastern Cape
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Jan
Jan
Talita Mshweshwe is a law student from East London doing an internship at the Legal Resources Centre (LRC). She interviewed a young girl named Siyabonga, a grade 7 pupil at Ncincinikwe Senior Primary School in Votini in the Eastern Cape. Ncincinikwe Senior Primary School is one of approximately 300 mud schools in the province. This […]
Governance, Housing, Legal Resources Centre, Rights to Water
West Point Lodge families sheltered from eviction
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Mar
Mar
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 […]
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Jul
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By: Claire Martens In the area of Carolina, the community’s water supply was polluted by mine acid drainage, which leaked into the water system after a particularly heavy rainfall. That was in January this year. The temporary measures which were implemented in the town to ensure water supply were not adequate to the point where […]