Author: jacob
Published:
14
Jun
2014
As South Africa’s executive under the ANC government has been enlarged and strengthened, proposed changes to the country’s national parliament seem set to weaken its capacity for oversight.
Author: jacob
Published:
11
Jun
2014
On Tuesday 3 June 2014, hundreds of people occupying a piece of land at Nomzamo settlement in Strand woke up to the shock of their lives when their homes were razed down and violently evicted from a piece of land they were occupying. The Socioeconomic Rights Project at the Community Law Centre (CLC), University of the Western Cape expresses its deep concern regarding the manner of eviction of residents of Lwandle, Strand, who were purportedly to be illegally occupying a piece of land belonging to SA National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral).
Author: jacob
Published:
10
Jun
2014
The Multilevel Government Initiative at the Community Law Centre’s views on the Infrastructure Development Bill, currently before Parliament, featured strongly at the Infrastructure Dialogue of 6 February.
Author: jacob
Published:
05
Jun
2014
The director of Community Law Centre wrote an opinion article addressing the issue where some officials expressed concerns over the opening of an Adult World sex shop right in front of parliament.
Author: jacob
Published:
28
May
2014
The Multilevel Government Initiative (MLGI) of the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) released a research report, Operation Clean Audit 2014: Why it Failed and What Can Be Learned, and its companion OCA 2014 Barometer, which extracts key statistical information from the report.
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Author: jacob
Published:
28
May
2014
Four out of five people in the world do not have access to comprehensive social security and 50% of these live in absolute poverty and majority of these people live in Africa. This is according to Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi, Socio-Economic Rights Project researcher at the Community Law Centre when delivering a statement at African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights at the 55th Ordinary Session.
Author: Jean
Published:
23
May
2014
CSPRI-PPJA in partnership with the Mozambican Institute of Legal Aid (Insituto Patrocinio Assistencia Juridica, IPAJ) held a wokshop on 21 and 22 May 2014 to promote two new international soft law instruments on access to justice and pre-trial detention in Africa.
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Author: jacob
Published:
21
May
2014
The Community Law Centre’s Children’s Rights Project is calling for consultants to produce a concept note for the commemoration of the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2015 on the theme, “25 Years after the Adoption of the African Children’s Charter: Accelerating our Collective Efforts to End Child Marriage in Africa”.
South Africa’s executive grows, Parliament is the loser
Community Law Centre Comments on the Lwandle Eviction
PODCAST: MLGI’s views on Infrastructure Development Bill presented at Infrastructure Dialogue
Prof Jaap de Visser comments on the sex shop in front of Parliament issue
MLGI research report examines the lessons to be drawn from the failure of Government’s Operation Clean Audit 2014
Gladys Mirugi-Mukundi delivers a statement at the African Commission
Consultancy: Concept Note for the commemoration of the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2015
