Tag Archives: Eastern Cape

Section 100 Intervention

The Court Confirms the Ministers Responsibility Please note that this is an extract from the Legal Resource Centre’s 2012 Annual Report In March 2011, the National Executive intervened and took over the administration of the Eastern Cape Department of Education. This intervention was effected in terms of section 100(1)(b) of the Constitution*. The national and […]

The #mudschools campaign

Please note that this article is an extract from the LRC’s 2012 Annual Report Through the efforts of the LRC during 2010 and 2011, a settlement regarding the upgrading of seven mud schools in the Eastern Cape was reached and an agreement was signed on 4 February 2011. This important case has received extensive press […]

The Urgency of Rights

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 […]