Lawyers for inmates held at the notorious Mangaung prison are suing the state – as well as the British firm that runs the prison – for abuses.
The troubled education department will be probed but there are doubts this will make any difference.
Court action is to blame for teacher vacancies, says the Eastern Cape education department.
Cars from the minister’s office have been attached to ensure the education department coughs up the R28-million it owes in teacher salaries.
Lawyers and activists say the Eastern Cape education department must make public its schedule of repairs to schools.
A political commitment is needed to resolve the teacher shortage in many schools.
The Eastern Cape education department owes three schools R3.15m for teacher salaries it budgeted for over the last three years but didn’t pay.
With prompting from civil society, judges are reminding the state of its material obligations to schools and pupils.
The province is running out of ways to defer its obligation to provide basic educational resources to hundreds of thousands of pupils.
Priority rescues must be planned for schools where pupils’ safety and health are now at risk.
Legal Resources Centre says any legislation around the awarding of mining rights must include views of the communities directly affected by mining.
The Eastern Cape education department has allegedly failed to comply with a court order, leaving thousands of pupils without school desks and chairs.
The Eastern Cape High Court sheriff may attach movable assets from the Eastern Cape education department after it failed to pay teacher salaries.
Equal Education has been preparing papers to go back to court over norms and standards for school infrastructure, says the NGO.
A young teacher’s school desperately needs him but he’s working without pay while an official sits on the paperwork for the job.
Overcrowding, too few teachers, not enough furniture or appalling toilets seem to have become the norm at some of the Eastern Cape’s schools.
Delegates at a civil society conference have heard that the sexualisation of minors is out of control.
The Grahamstown High Court has ordered the department of basic education to fill vacant posts in Eastern Cape public schools by November.
But the education department is digging in its heels over the appointment of non-teaching staff.
A pupil laments the horrific conditions at his rural Eastern Cape school.
Angie Motshekga will oppose court action taken by Eastern Cape governing bodies over the failure to fill 64 752 teaching posts budgeted for this year.
Eastern Cape principals and parents are suing the state after their pleas to fill positions were ignored
The department of basic education faces court action over its failure to fully fill the tens of thousands of teaching posts the Eastern Cape needs.
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/ 16 February 2008
The Magistrate’s Commission should institute an investigation into the conduct of a magistrate who handled the case against immigrants arrested during a raid at the Central Methodist Church in the inner city, the Johannesburg High Court ruled on Friday.
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/ 6 February 2008
Many Zimbabwean refugees seek shelter at the Central Methodist church in Johannesburg’s CBD, sleeping on stairs and in passageways in the only place they can find free accommodation. Up to 1 500 refugees living on the church premises were arrested in a late-night raid last week to round up illegal immigrants.
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/ 1 December 2007
The Richtersveld community in the Northern Cape celebrated on Saturday after regaining land taken from them in the 1920s. Spokesperson for the Department of Public Enterprises Lulu Bam said ten years of court battles saw state-owned diamond mining assets, held by the Alexkor mining company, being granted to the community.
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/ 18 October 2007
Environmental NGO Earthlife Africa has threatened a legal challenge to what it says is South Africa’s ”hasty and ill-informed” draft nuclear policy. The threat was made in a submission on Earthlife’s behalf by the Legal Resources Centre on the policy document, released by the Department of Minerals and Energy in August.
Tears of joy flowed on Tuesday when the Richtersveld community got a court order restoring land taken from them seventy years ago. ”I am overwhelmed with joy. I can’t hold back my tears,” said community leader Willem Diergaardt. ”This is a big moment in the history of the Richtersveld.”
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/ 26 September 2007
The Cape High Court has given residents of Cape Town’s Joe Slovo informal settlement, who are opposing eviction, a week to appoint lawyers to represent them. Over a thousand residents packed the street outside the court on Wednesday morning under the watchful eye of police officers.
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/ 20 September 2007
A group of Richtersveld residents is to challenge a settlement agreement with the government when the document goes before the Land Claims Court in Cape Town next week for ratification. The agreement followed a 10-year court battle by the Richtersvelders for the restoration of land taken by the state for diamonds mining.