14 December 2021 – Will the courts stop Shell in the Wild Coast? Second urgent hearing to take place this week
For Immediate Release 14 December 2021 Will the courts stop Shell in the Wild Coast? Second urgent hearing to take place this week MAKHANDA -- On Friday, 17 December, the Grahamstown High Court in Makhanda will hear arguments in application of an urgent interdict against Shell’s seismic survey along South Africa’s Wild Coast. The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) and Richard Spoor Attorneys – supported by Cullinan & Associates and Natural [...]
2 December 2021 – Wild Coast communities apply for interdict to stop Shell exploration
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 of hydrocarbon reserves in the Transkei and Algoa areas off the coast of the Eastern [...]
11 November 2021 – Supreme Court hears appeal against interim interdict in Cape Town eviction case
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 year since the eviction of Bulelani Qolani from his home, the precarity and horror of [...]
8 November 2021 – The Hai//om community asks the Namibian Supreme Court to allow them to bring ancestral claims
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 of German colonialists and by 1907, had taken refuge in the area known today as [...]
29 September 2021 – LRC asks court to enforce 2020 order on classroom provision within 30 days; ECDOE head to account before court for failure to deliver
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 Mthatha High Court requesting the order’s enforcement. The ECDOE vowed to ensure delivery of the [...]