In the media
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10 June 2014
City Press
Lawyers for Human Rights took Judge Willie Seriti on when he tried to prevent questions relating to claims that the offsets from the multibillion-rand arms deal were a total failure.
The offsets were promises that the arms companies made to invest in businesses in South Africa in return for which their offerings were given preferential status.
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10 June 2014
Mail & Guardian Online
Ministers due to testify at the arms commission will not answer fraud and corruption allegations but could be asked about a mysterious report.
The ministers who will testify at the arms procurement commission this week will not answer questions on fraud and corruption alleged to have plagued the arms deal. Yet all hope is not lost, as the mysterious affordability report of 1999, which apparently advised Cabinet against the arms deal, remains within the ambit of phase one.
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5 June 2014
Radio Today
Patrick Bracher, Director Norton Rose Fulbright SA, expert guest was Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh, head of the Refugee and Migrants Programme at Lawyers for Human Rights.
She spoke about recent amendments in the Immigration Act regulations, and in particular how these affect refugees. She will also discuss a case heard by the Supreme Court of Appeal recently dealing with related issues.
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6 June 2014
sapa
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Thursday called on the Seriti Commission of Inquiry into the 1999 arms deal to be fair and consistent in treating witnesses.
Gina Snyman, for the LHR, told the inquiry sitting in Pretoria that Admiral Jonathan Kamerman's statement was not made available until he started testifying at the inquiry last month.
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31 May 2014
Weekend Argus
Passop's Bernard Toyambi helps Zimbabweans get permits they applied for years ago. Picture: Kristen van Schie
Cape Town - At the end of this year, special permits granted to Zimbabweans living in South Africa will start to expire.
Which is a problem for Alice, seeing as she’s still waiting on hers, four years after originally applying.
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27 May 2014
Times LIVE
By the time he was 13, his parents had been stabbed to death by soldiers, his grandmother murdered and his aunt gang-raped.
Now the teen, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo for South Africa with his aunt in 2011, is fighting to go to school.
The teenager, 16, is one of eight children who have taken the home affairs, basic education and social development ministers, together with other officials, to court in a bid to get an education.
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29 May 2014
Mail & Guardian Online
Prominent arms deal critics at the arms procurement commission say the latest round of delays over the acquisition of documents has effectively locked them out of the process altogether. Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren, all authors and critics of the deal represented by Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) on Wednesday accused the commission of making it impractical and impossible to cross-examine key witnesses.
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29 May 2014
Business Day
While the commission probing fraud and corruption in the arms deal prepares to hear evidence from former deputy defence minister Ronnie Kasrils on Monday, lawyers for two critics of the arms deal have complained of unfair treatment.
Lawyers for Human Rights, representing former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein and researcher Paul Holden at the Arms Procurement Commission, complained on Tuesday that they could not cross-examine Jonathan Kamerman, a former director of Project Sitron, which acquired four frigates for the SA Navy in 1999.
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29 May 2014
The New Age
Lawyers for Human Rights were prevented from cross-examining a witness at the Seriti Commission into the arms deal, they said on Wednesday.
"The LHR was hindered this week from effectively cross-examining Rear Admiral Jonathan Kamermann on his technical knowledge of the purchase of corvettes forming part of arms deal, and allegations of corruption against him," the lawyers said in a statement.
The LHR represent Andrew Feinstein, Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden, who have written books about the multi-billion rand arms deal.
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27 May 2014
Times LIVE
By the time he was 13, his parents had been stabbed to death by soldiers, his grandmother murdered and his aunt gang-raped.
Now the teen, who fled the Democratic Republic of Congo for South Africa with his aunt in 2011, is fighting to go to school.
The teenager, 16, is one of eight children who have taken the home affairs, basic education and social development ministers, together with other officials, to court in a bid to get an education.
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