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PILG 2025: From Legal Promises to Public Accountability

Next week, public interest lawyers, activists and community organisers gather at Wits University for the Public Interest Law Gathering on 22 to 23 October under the theme “Unfinished Freedom: interrogating the leaps between legal promises and lived realities.” The title is well chosen. South Africa’s institutions have accumulated policies, frameworks and court rulings that ought […]

Nadine Gordimer – Student, writer and activist

By George Bizos SC, assisted by Samantha Brener, both at the Legal Resources Centre.  Delivered in the Great Hall of the University of the Witwatersrand on 18 May 2017 Nadine Gordimer was a world-renowned writer. She has been richly praised by many of the world’s most respected voices. The independent Newspaper in London published the […]