LRC Returns to Court for ECD Subsidy Litigation
The LRC Returns to the Pietermaritzburg High Court to Advance Constitutional Protection for Early Childhood Development The Legal Resources Centre, acting on behalf of the Friends of South Africa ECD Forum and the KZN ECD Alliance, will return to the Pietermaritzburg High Court on 23 June 2026 for the second stage of litigation concerning the non-payment of early childhood development subsidies across KwaZulu-Natal. The case seeks to address systemic failures [...]
Late Registration of Births Backlog
Court case against Home Affairs on backlog in birth registrations to be heard in Western Cape High Court on 10 June 2026 On Wednesday 10 June 2026, the Children’s Institute (University of Cape Town) and a group of South African parents, represented by the Legal Resources Centre, will be in the Western Cape High Court for the hearing of our birth registration case. This legal action is due [...]
Challenge over public participation in Public Procurement Act
LRC joins Constitutional Court challenge over inadequate public participation in Public Procurement Act process The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is representing amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism in a Constitutional Court challenge concerning the process that led to the adoption of the Public Procurement Act. AmaBhungane is an applicant in the consolidated matters of Premier of Western Cape Government v Speaker of the National Assembly and City of Cape Town [...]
SASL
APPLICATION FOR ACCESS TO SOUTH AFRICAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES The Legal Resources Centre has lodged an application against a prominent university to request that it urgently provide South African Sign Language (SASL) interpretation services to a deaf student. The LRC represents the student and DeafSA, a national research, information and community action organisation which advocates to advance the rights [...]
AFRA admitted as Amicus Curiae
AFRA ADMITTED AS AMICUS CURIAE IN EXPROPRIATION ACT CHALLENGE The Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA), represented by the Legal Resources Centre, has been admitted as amicus curiae in the matter of Afriforum NPC v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others, in which Afriforum seeks to challenge the constitutionality of various provisions of the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024. One of their challenges [...]