Update on US ARMS TRANSFERS
NO OPPOSITION FILED IN SALC APPLICATION TO SUSPEND OR CANCEL SOUTH AFRICAN ARMS EXPORT PERMITS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - UPDATED UPDATE: After SALC published the press release…
SALC promotes and advances human rights and the rule of law in Southern Africa, primarily through strategic litigation and capacity-strengthening support to lawyers and grassroots organisations.
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In addition, SALC supports litigation in South African courts that advances human rights in the southern African region.
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SALC’s work is streamlined into five thematic clusters:
South Africa: Challenging the export of weapons to the US
South Africa: Challenging the export of weapons to the US
The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has initiated a landmark legal challenge in the North Gauteng High Court to halt all South African weapon exports to the United States. This…
Press release: SALC challenges arms trades from SA to US in court
Press release: SALC challenges arms trades from SA to US in court
SALC OPENS CASE CHALLENGING ARMS TRADES FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CITING THE UNITED STATES AS A THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY Johannesburg, 3 June…
SALC in the news: SA’s genocide case at the ICJ
SALC in the news: SA’s genocide case at the ICJ
US intervenes to defend Israel in SA's genocide case at the ICJ By Victoria O'Regan 13 Mar 2026 The United States (US), Namibia, Hungary, and Fiji have filed declarations of…
APPEAL FILED IN LANDMARK CASE AGAINST US-ESWATINI DEPORTEE DEAL
APPEAL FILED IN LANDMARK CASE AGAINST US-ESWATINI DEPORTEE DEAL
The Eswatini Litigation Centre, Mzwandile Banele Masuku, the Swaziland Rural Women's Assembly, and Melusi Simelane have submitted a Notice of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Eswatini, contesting the dismissal of…
The great hypocrisy of South Africa’s arms exports
The great hypocrisy of South Africa’s arms exports
The Great Hypocrisy of South Africa’s Arms Exports exposes the stark gap between South Africa’s stated foreign policy commitment to human rights, "silencing the guns" and its actual arms export…
Mining requires accountability
Mining requires accountability
The Nation 12 June 2026 As global demand for minerals used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and other clean energy technologies continues to grow, Malawi is increasingly attracting attention from…
Mining company takes Zambia pollution case to Supreme Court in bid to avoid trial
Mining company takes Zambia pollution case to Supreme Court in bid to avoid trial
MINING COMPANY TAKES ZAMBIA POLLUTION CASE TO SUPREME COURT IN BID TO AVOID TRIAL Sino Metals appeals High Court ruling that cleared the way for 176 community members to have…
Landmark human rights and environmental case trial on 10 December 2025
Landmark human rights and environmental case trial on 10 December 2025
Case proceeds after High Court dismisses mining company’s bid to throw out the case Lusaka/Johannesburg – The High Court of Zambia has dismissed the application by Sino Metals Leach Zambia…
Amnesty International and SALC intervene on landmark multinational mining case at South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal
Amnesty International and SALC intervene on landmark multinational mining case at South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal
Bloemfontein – As the Supreme Court of Appeal starts hearing the appeal in Various Parties obo Minors and Another v Anglo American South Africa today, the Southern Africa Litigation Centre…
SALC announced as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists
SALC announced as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists
Global Centre for Pluralism announces Southern Africa Litigation Centre as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists South African organization recognized for supporting marginalized populations across 12 countries through…
Zambian communities sue mining giants over spill disaster
Zambian communities sue mining giants over spill disaster
Johannesburg/Lusaka – On 12 September 2025, 176 residents of Kalusale, Chambishi, in Zambia’s Copperbelt province, launched a landmark case in the High Court of Zambia against Sino Metals Leach Zambia…
Xenophobia and the Africa we want
Xenophobia and the Africa we want
The Nation (19 June 2026) Recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa have once again forced Africa to confront a painful question about who we are and how we treat one…
Exploring human rights, digital minefields and intersectionality in cyber politics
Exploring human rights, digital minefields and intersectionality in cyber politics
26 November 2025 By Bradley Fortuin The Midweek Sun In an era when digital infrastructures have a strong hold on everything from civic participation to surveillance, human rights interventions must…
The first courageous annual Palapye Pride in Botswana
The first courageous annual Palapye Pride in Botswana
By Seipone Boitshwarelo and Bradley Fortuin. Washington Blade, 4 November 2025 The Midweek Sun, 5 November 2025 MambaOnline, 8 November 2025 A beginning rooted in courage, community and love! "When…
3 organisations honoured with 2025 Global Pluralism Award
3 organisations honoured with 2025 Global Pluralism Award
OTTAWA, Canada – October 28, 2025 – The Global Centre for Pluralism is pleased to announce the three winners of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award, recognizing their extraordinary work to bridge…
SALC announced as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists
SALC announced as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists
Global Centre for Pluralism announces Southern Africa Litigation Centre as one of the 2025 Global Pluralism Award finalists South African organization recognized for supporting marginalized populations across 12 countries through…
Zambia’s Historic First: Legal capacity Communication submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Zambia’s Historic First: Legal capacity Communication submitted to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
On 21 August 2025, The Validity Foundation, together with the Mental Health Users Network of Zambia (MHUNZA) and Disability Rights Watch (DRW) with the technical support of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and the Southern Africa…
Xenophobia and the Africa we want
Xenophobia and the Africa we want
The Nation (19 June 2026) Recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa have once again forced Africa to confront a painful question about who we are and how we treat one…
Mining requires accountability
Mining requires accountability
The Nation 12 June 2026 As global demand for minerals used in electric vehicles, wind turbines and other clean energy technologies continues to grow, Malawi is increasingly attracting attention from…
Kufanya kuishi kuwa kosa la jinai: Gharama ya Kibinadamu ya operesheni ya Kinondoni dhidi ya uombaji
Kufanya kuishi kuwa kosa la jinai: Gharama ya Kibinadamu ya operesheni ya Kinondoni dhidi ya uombaji
Jamii Forums (4 June 2026) Andiko La Jebra Kambole Amri ya hivi karibuni ya Halmashauri ya Manispaa ya Kinondoni iliyotolewa tarehe 28/05/2026 na Meya wa Kinondoni Mh. Songoro Hamis Mnyonge…
Criminalising survival: The human cost of Kinondoni’s anti-begging crackdown
Criminalising survival: The human cost of Kinondoni’s anti-begging crackdown
The Chanzo Initiative (7 June 2026) By Jebra Kambole & Chikondi Chijozi By forcing the poor out of public view, the council is creating a cruel illusion of order for…
What Malawi can learn from Uganda and Kenya on refugee policy
What Malawi can learn from Uganda and Kenya on refugee policy
What Malawi Can Learn from Uganda and Kenya on Refugee Policy By Chikondi Jere, SALC Criminal Justice Cluster lead Published in the Malawi Nation, 25 May 2026 Three years after…
Court ordered reform: Why are vagrancy laws still unchanged?
Court ordered reform: Why are vagrancy laws still unchanged?
The Nation Newspaper (28 April 2026) Chikondi Chijozi Jere When the High Court on 22 July 2022 delivered its landmark ruling on police “sweeping exercises,” it did more than condemn…
The cage, the bullet and the border: How Southern Africa punishes dissent and why our region must reclaim its institutions
The cage, the bullet and the border: How Southern Africa punishes dissent and why our region must reclaim its institutions
Polity (4 June 2026) From Harare to Dar es Salaam to Mbabane to Lusaka, governments have learned they no longer need a guilty verdict to silence critics. They need a…
I live under Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Here’s what 40 years of total power looks like
I live under Africa’s last absolute monarchy. Here’s what 40 years of total power looks like
Minority Africa King Mswati III of Eswatini just spent millions celebrating his ruby jubilee. Most of his people live below the poverty line, and a lawyer who wrote critically of…
Tanzanian CSOs appeal East African Court ruling on online content regulations
Tanzanian CSOs appeal East African Court ruling on online content regulations
SALC stands with the appellants in their continued fight to protect freedom of expression online in East Africa The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) welcomes the decision of the Legal…
Driven out by design: The leadership crisis behind Africa’s migration
Driven out by design: The leadership crisis behind Africa’s migration
Substack (02 May 2026) Migration is rational. It is not a pathology. It is a response to a leadership emergency. When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni addressed her European Union…
Africa’s data, the new sovereignty frontier
Africa’s data, the new sovereignty frontier
Mail and Guardian The concept of sovereignty has evolved over the centuries, originating from the Latin roots ‘super’, meaning ‘above’, and developing into its modern definition in the early 18th…
APPEAL FILED IN LANDMARK CASE AGAINST US-ESWATINI DEPORTEE DEAL
APPEAL FILED IN LANDMARK CASE AGAINST US-ESWATINI DEPORTEE DEAL
The Eswatini Litigation Centre, Mzwandile Banele Masuku, the Swaziland Rural Women's Assembly, and Melusi Simelane have submitted a Notice of Appeal to the Supreme Court of Eswatini, contesting the dismissal of…