Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise
Cases about the rights of the vulnerable are overshadowed by his legal-political games.
The gap between haves and have-nots is already set in stone for life in primary school, a study says.
Nuanced debates are needed to have meaningful conversations about South Africa, 20 years into our democracy.
Pastors and politicians will continue to feed off the desperation of the poor, until their material and spiritual needs are met, and oppression ends.
The justice department’s Amarightza programme aims to educate the public and officials about the socioeconomic rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
The ANC is pushing to change the material conditions in which the majority of South Africans live
The Marikana case is a major indicator of the challenge facing South Africa in the area of socioeconomic rights.