Legal Resources Centre – The Mail & Guardian

/ 14 November 2023

Ingonyama Trust drops residential leases appeal

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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By Paddy Harper

Opinion

/ 1 August 2022

Preserving the rule of law in times of political crisis

This is an edited version of the Inaugural Arthur Chaskalson Memorial Lecture delivered at the Equal Education Law Centre

By Tembeka Ngcukaitobi

Opinion

/ 29 March 2022

‘Tough love’ budget cuts are toughest on the poorest learners

Many learners in the Eastern Cape have not received stationery and textbooks because of budget shortfalls

By Cecile van Schalkwyk, Cameron McConnachie and Zukiswa Kota

Article

/ 15 February 2022

High court order halting West Coast seismic survey remains in place

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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By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 9 February 2022

West Coast fishers hail court victory halting seismic survey

The Legal Resources Centre hails court order as stunning victory for indigenous communities along the coast

By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 26 January 2022

West Coast seismic battle heads to court

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

By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 17 January 2022

Battlelines drawn over new seismic survey on the West Coast

The Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys are heading to court for urgent interdict against Searcher Seismic, an Australian exploration outfit

By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 28 December 2021

High court halts Shell’s seismic exploration along Wild Coast

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

By Emsie Ferreira

The Green Guardian

/ 17 December 2021

Wild Coast communities blast Mantashe’s defence of Shell’s seismic survey

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’

By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 8 December 2021

Shell seismic ops: ‘Our ancestors’ blood was spilt protecting the land and sea’

Communities along the Wild Coast have approached the high court in Makhanda for an urgent interdict to stop Shell from initiating seismic survey operations

By Sheree Bega

The Green Guardian

/ 3 December 2021

Shell gets go-ahead to proceed with seismic blasting on the Wild Coast

The high court refuses to interdict seismic survey on the basis that ‘irreparable harm’ to marine species not proved

By Sheree Bega

National

/ 2 October 2021

Ingonyama Trust’s Ngwenya cannot act on ‘frolic of his own’

Jerome Ngwenya acted without authority, LRC says

By Paddy Harper

Opinion

/ 19 September 2021

Constitutional triumph on matrimonial property rights

Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.

By Nokuthula Mbele

Education

/ 12 June 2021

Learners moving to other provinces puts education departments under pressure

Gauteng and the Western Cape struggle to put children in class, but Limpopo and the Eastern Cape are closing schools as enrolment plummets

By Bongekile Macupe

National

/ 11 June 2021

Court rules that Ingonyama Trust Board lease programme is unlawful

About R90-million collected in residential lease fees must be paid back to people living on ITB land

By Paddy Harper

Thought Leader

/ 24 May 2021

Government does not have the right to ignore rural citizens

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

By Wilmien Wicomb

Education

/ 8 May 2021

‘W Cape, fix unplaced pupils crisis’

Civil rights organisations want the department to find a permanent solution to the problem

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By Bongekile Macupe

National

/ 7 December 2020

Rural women take the Ingonyama Trust to court

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

By Chris Makhaye

National

/ 6 November 2020

Farm dwellers fight to access water and other basic services

Municipalities have failed to prioritise the rights of labour tenants and farmworkers

By Sarah Smit

National

/ 12 September 2020

Illegal land sales head to court

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

By Paddy Harper

National

/ 10 July 2020

Court must declare Cape Town’s ‘inhuman’ demolitions, evictions illegal, says law centre

The city argues that it is not carrying out evictions, but is acting against land invasions

By Lester Kiewit

Article

/ 3 February 2020

Court victory for 400 000 elderly black women

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

By Tania Broughton

Article

/ 25 January 2020

Ceres residents fight ‘unnecessary’ water rationing

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.

By Michael Nkalane

Article

/ 13 December 2019

High court forbids expulsion of undocumented children

This follows an application by the Centre for Child Law, Phakamisa High School and 37 children — represented by the Legal Resources Centre against DBE

By Bongekile Macupe