Cases and Judgements
(Case)
14/04/2009
The above mentioned case, which is cited as Andre Johannes Grobler NO, Anneme Grobler NO, Liezl Hattingh NO v Certain Occupiers on the farm Spioenkop, District Grabouw under case no.'s 1802 /2009 and 3339/2009, 35 rural households are facing urgent evictions.
It is imperative to note, that none...
(Case)
04/12/2008
In the case of Watervliet Farm, 7 families are facing evictions from the farm, known as Watervliet. These families have all been served with eviction notices. The matter was set down for the 4th of December 2008. In the interim we have filed our Notice of Opposition and Answering Affidavits in...
(Case)
30/05/2007
THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEAL OF SOUTH AFRICA Case : 303/2006 REPORTABLE In the appeal between: TSWELOPELE NON-PROFIT ORGANISATION First appellantAND 23 OTHERS Second and further appellants and CITY OF TSHWANE METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY First respondentMINISTER OF HOME AFFAIRS Second...
(Judgement)
08/04/2008
Judgment was granted in favour of our clients.
(Case)
08/04/2008
Newly arrived asylum seekers in South Africa cannot immediately access the Department’s asylum application procedure. The Unit has achieved some success in addressing this unsatisfactory situation with the two court applications that it launched during 2005 and 2006.
Pursuant to these applications...
(Case)
08/04/2008
(Case)
08/04/2008
Currently, disabled refugees in South Africa are excluded from accessing government-provided social assistance grants. The Strategic Litigation Unit represents a number of individual refugees who are disabled, and two refugee organisations that have refugee members who are disabled. We assisted our...
(Case)
08/04/2008
In this matter, a high school threatened disciplinary steps against our client’s daughter, a Tamil Hindu, for wearing a nose stud in expression of her cultural practices and religious beliefs.
After the Durban Magistrate’s Equality Court handed down a judgement in favour of the school, the Unit...
(Case)
08/04/2008
The Litigation Unit is currently representing a client who was atrociously tortured in his country of origin, Angola. After he applied for asylum in South Africa, the Department of Home Affairs took in excess of 2 years to determine our client’s status and reach the decision to reject his asylum...
(Case)
08/04/2008
In this case, the Unit represents a Chinese national who has four children. The client initially came to South Africa after fleeing persecution on the basis of his political opinion. However, in the 12 years that he has been in South Africa, the client fathered 4 children with his wife. Accordingly...