Programme News
28 March 2012
(News)
Mail&Guardian: The department of home affairs has yet to explain the extended detention of 22 inmates at the Lindela repatriation centre following a riot at the facility on Monday.
On March 20 the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) brought an urgent application to the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg requesting the immediate release of 22 people who have been detained at Lindela...
27 March 2012
(News)
AT LEAST 10 people sustained injuries yesterday during a riot at the Lindela Repatriation Centre in the West Rand.
The centre is used to keep illegal immigrants before they are repatriated to their respective countries.
It is understood that inmates, believed to be made up mainly of Nigerian and Ethopian nationals, rioted after management refused to listen to their complains about...
26 March 2012
(News)
The North Gauteng High Court today was forced to postpone the landmark case brought by the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) and the Zimbabwean Exiles Forum (ZEF) to compel South Africa to investigate and prosecute high level Zimbabwean officials accused of crimes against humanity - after the National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) appointed new counsel just days before the...
26 March 2012
(Press release)
OPINION: African countries should stop introducing anti-gay legislations, in order to create an environment in which contributes to the protection of people’s constitutional rights.
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess...
23 March 2012
(News)
The 21st day of March is officially Human Rights Day in South Africa. Others call it Sharpeville Day. It is not without reason that many prefer the day to be remembered as Sharpeville Day. The very mention of Sharpeville Day triggers a powerful memory. A reminder. An epic moment in African resistance and human rights history. Of sacrifice, struggle and vision. Of suffering, pain and...
22 March 2012
(News)
The Tshwane Metro Council and the police are facing a R30.8 million damages claim relating to the eviction of Schubart Park flats residents in November. Lawyers acting for the evicted families have issued the council a letter of demand in which they are claiming R100 000 each on behalf of 308 clients.
The amount of damages could increase, as it was made clear in the letter this week that the...
22 March 2012
(News)
“I only have a face, I have no identity or nationality. I have no idea what to call myself. I just want to belong somewhere.”
This is the plight of a 20-year-old man, identified only as Adelin, who is a stateless person trying to make a living to support himself. But this is impossible, as no country recognises him as a citizen.
Adelin was born on February 14, 1992, in a refugee camp...
22 March 2012
(News)
Mary Chombo was born in SA to a South African-born mother and a Malawian father. But as her birth was never registered in this country and she left for Malawi with her parents when she was little, she is now persona non grata in SA.
She moved back here with her four children after her husband died, but her efforts to be recognised as South African have fallen on deaf ears.
“Home Affairs...
22 March 2012
(News)
The country marked Human Rights Day yesterday, but for some people who are stateless in SA there was little to celebrate.
These people who are not recognised as a national by any state are invisible. They do not exist before the State.
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) started a Statelessness Project last March, devoted to providing legal assistance to people who are not recognised as a national in...
22 March 2012
(News)
“I only have a face, I have no identity or nationality. I have no idea what to call myself. I just want to belong somewhere.”
This is the plight of a 20-year-old man, identified only as Adelin, who is a stateless person trying to make a living to support himself. But this is impossible, as no country recognises him as a citizen.
Adelin was born on February 14, 1992, in a refugee camp...