The board will now have to refund millions of rands it collected from residents of land under the trust’s control
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This is an edited version of the Inaugural Arthur Chaskalson Memorial Lecture delivered at the Equal Education Law Centre
Many learners in the Eastern Cape have not received stationery and textbooks because of budget shortfalls
Searcher Seismic says it will suffer ‘catastrophic’ financial prejudice from the interdict, but small scale fishers say they will suffer significant irreversible harm to their livelihoods if the survey proceeds
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The Legal Resources Centre hails court order as stunning victory for indigenous communities along the coast
Fourteen applicants, including small-scale fishers, have filed an urgent application in the Western Cape high court to interdict the Australian-based Searcher Seismic, Searcher Geodata and its seismic vessel BGP Pioneer
The Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys are heading to court for urgent interdict against Searcher Seismic, an Australian exploration outfit
Judge Gerald Bloem sustained the argument from affected local communities that the oil giant had failed to consult and to refute their evidence that it would cause lasting harm to marine life
Groups opposed to multinational’s offshore search for oil and gas say that the energy minister shows his ignorance by blaming white environmentalists for wanting to ‘protect butterflies’
Communities along the Wild Coast have approached the high court in Makhanda for an urgent interdict to stop Shell from initiating seismic survey operations
The high court refuses to interdict seismic survey on the basis that ‘irreparable harm’ to marine species not proved
Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says
Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.
Gauteng and the Western Cape struggle to put children in class, but Limpopo and the Eastern Cape are closing schools as enrolment plummets
About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land
Proposed changes to the Traditional Courts Bill to remove the possibility to “opt out” and use magistrate’s courts instead are probably unconstitutional, and definitely play into the hands of traditional leaders instead of their communities
Civil rights organisations want the department to find a permanent solution to the problem
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Forced to sign lease agreements and pay rent for land they have been living on for years, residents have had enough and are taking the Ingonyama Trust to court
Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers
Two state departments have done nothing about the sale of people’s land in Umnini by an inkosi –and R2.5-million has still not been accounted for
The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions
An apartheid law that dispossessed black women of the assets accrued during their marriages has finally been scrapped after a Pinetown pensioner, facing impoverishment, went to court
Impoverished residents have sought legal advice after the Witzenberg Municipality withdrew indigent subsidies for those who refused to allow it to install water management devices.
This follows an application by the Centre for Child Law, Phakamisa High School and 37 children — represented by the Legal Resources Centre against DBE
My three days of wading through court papers and no story is like wee Paddy’s three days of an SAA flight
South Africa’s public-interest sector is not clean of alleged sex pests in the office
Some schools have been applying for scholar transport since 2011 — to no avail
Those who should have been paid by the department may apply for compensation
A Land Claims Court decision reversed on appeal has devastated weary labour tenant applicants
The scandal-hit lawyer has picked up where he left off with cases, frustrating his female accusers
They live on the land and till the land, but don’t own the land. Expropriation could remedy this
Mwelase case claimants are adamant about their right to acquire their ancestral land.