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28 May 2014
Lawyers for Human Rights – representing Andrew Feinstein, Hennie van Vuuren and Paul Holden – have effectively been barred again from participating at the Arms Procurement Commission.
Barred from cross-examination
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 the...
21 May 2014
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16 May 2014
On Monday, the Constitutional Court will hear arguments in the Zimbabwe torture case, brought by the Southern Africa Litigation Centre and Zimbabwean Exiles Forum – represented by Lawyers for Human Rights - to compel South Africa to abide its domestic and international legal obligations to investigate and prosecute high level Zimbabwean officials accused of crimes against humanity....
20 March 2014
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) is alarmed by the irregular arrest and detention of prominent Swazi human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko and editor-in-chief of The Nation magazine, Bhekithemba Makhubu and call on Swazi authorities to provide them immediate access to their lawyers.
The men were arrested and detained on Monday (18 March 2014) after The Nation published two articles by Maseko in...
6 March 2014
Carolina and Silobela residents in Mpumalanga are again facing a water crisis after tests, conducted by Lawyers for Human Rights, on boreholes being used by the community for drinking water have turned up disturbing results.
As a consequence of the water crisis in Carolina in 2012, many residents of Carolina and Silobela township still prefer to obtain their drinking water from boreholes at...
28 February 2014
Paul Holden and I have cooperated with the Arms Procurement Commission since its inception in the hope that it would finally reveal the full truth of the notorious Arms Deal that will ultimately cost the South African taxpayer around R70-billion.
From early on in its existence I offered to assist the Commission in any way I could. Members of the research team asked me to introduce them to...
18 February 2014
Lawyers for Human Rights, on the instructions of Andrew Feinstein, Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren, on Tuesday was left with no option but to decline the opportunity to cross-examine former trade and industry minister Alec Erwin at the Arms Deal Commission due to lack of access to vital documents central to the witness’s testimony.
Judge Willie Seriti excused Erwin, saying:...
3 February 2014
Lawyers for Human Rights is concerned by the Tshwane University of Technology’s wilful contempt of an urgent court order allowing students to return to their residences.
The North Gauteng High Court on Saturday issued an urgent order allowing students who had been evicted from their residences at TUT to return to their residences. The university acknowledged the ruling through media...
24 January 2014
The Tshwane metro police officer, accused of the kidnapping and assault of six Zimbabwean nationals in 2010, has been convicted in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court.
Steven Ndou changed his plea from not guilty to guilty on Friday before being convicted of the 2010 kidnapping and assault of three of the victims. The case has been postponed to 28 February for the purposes of a pre-...
22 January 2014
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwe Exiles Forum (ZEF), through Lawyers for Human Rights, are challenging the South African Police Service’s (SAPS) application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against last year’s order in the Zimbabwe Torture Docket case.
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last year ruled that SAPS and the National...