IOL 11 August 2015 Johannesburg – A leading human rights group on Tuesday warned of “grave human rights concerns” – including allegations of widespread torture of detained soldiers – in…
Staff Writer12 August 2015
SALC’s Rule of Law work is integrated within its other programmatic areas and focuses on the following objectives:
- To challenge encroachments on judicial independence.
- To challenge practices where the executive seeks to encroach on the powers of parliament or the judiciary.
Completed cases:
- Lesotho: Support wife of late Brigadier Mahau to argue against the setting aside of the findings of the SADC Commission of Inquiry into Lesotho.
- Botswana: Challenge interpretation of Constitution which allows President discretion to appoint High Court judges.
- Swaziland: Challenging lawyer and editor’s arrest and detention for contempt of court.
- Zambia: Defending anti-corruption activist charged with contempt of court.
- Lesotho: Conduct advocacy and litigation to address unlawful arrests and military detention.
Publications:
Submissions:
Advocacy:
- Are African nations putting policing over public health? (2020).
- SALC in the news: Policing of petty offences (2017).
- International Human Rights Day: SALC looks back on key developments and children in 2016 (2016).
- Court Update: Maseko and Makhubu challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and detention (2014).
Muluka Miti-Drummond 7 July 2015 Thought Leader When people think of Angola many think of the 27-year-long civil war that ended in 2002. Some might even think of oil and…
Staff Writer7 July 2015
The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (African Court’s) 27th ordinary session being in Port Louis, Mauritius ended on the 7th of December. Not much is known about this court…
Staff Writer23 October 2012
Mail&Guardian By Nicole Fritz 7 September 2012 So often are the winds of change said to blow through the southern reaches of Africa that the uninformed might think there are…
Staff Writer7 September 2012
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has responded to the SADC Summit’s decision to deny SADC peoples access to the Tribunal, calling the decision “a tragedy. It is a blow against accountable government and individual…
Staff Writer22 August 2012
IRIN News JOHANNESBURG, 13 June 2012 (IRIN) – The long-running spat between the African Union (AU) and International Criminal Court (ICC) over perceived bias has prompted the AU to push…
Staff Writer13 June 2012
The Mail&Guardian National and international law bodies on Monday strongly criticised the closed-door hearings conducted by Swaziland’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) against Judge Thomas Masuku. The Law Society of South…
Staff Writer23 August 2011
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), the Southern Africa Development Community Lawyers Association (SADC LA) and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) note that the Swaziland Judicial Services Commission (JSC)…
Staff Writer22 August 2011
Times of Swaziland MBABANE – The Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) has raised a number of procedures that were flawed during the hearing of High Court Judge Justice Thomas Masuku…
Staff Writer17 August 2011
The Business Day By Nicole Fritz IF SWAZILAND was going to make even a token gesture at meeting the less than taxing conditions attached to SA’s recent loan, and if…
Staff Writer11 August 2011