Wild Coast and environmental organizations appeal Shell judgment
Wild Coast communities and environmental Justice organizations appeal Shell's judgment at the Constitutional Court 02 July 2024: Wild Coast communities, Sustaining the Wild Coast, All Rise Attorneys, Natural Justice, and Greenpeace Africa have, last week, filed petitions in the Constitutional Court to appeal against the order of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in the legal battle over Shell’s exploration rights which allows them to conduct seismic testing on the Wild Coast [...]
THOKO DIDIZA FACES JAIL TIME
PRESS RELEASE: THOKO DIDIZA, FORMER MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND LAND REFORM, FACES JAIL TIME FOR FAILING TO COMPLY WITH WESTERN CAPE HIGH COURT ORDER On Thursday, 27 June 2024, the Western Cape High found in favour of three farmers from Beaufort West, holding the former Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, and some of her departmental officials in contempt of court for failing to place them [...]
Joint statement: Civil society calls on the new Minister of Basic Education to fix the School Infrastructure Regulations to ensure children’s safety in public schools
11 July 2024 Joint statement: Civil society calls on the new Minister of Basic Education to fix the School Infrastructure Regulations to ensure children's safety in public schools Civil society organizations SECTION27, the Equal Education Law Centre (“EELC”), the Legal Resources Centre ("LRC") and Equal Education (“EE”) are extremely concerned about the Department of Basic Education’s (“DBE”) amended Regulations Relating to Minimum Uniform Norms and Standards for Public [...]
Beaufort West Land Reform Beneficiaries Seek Jail Time for Minister’s Failure to Comply with Court Order
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 June 2024 On Tuesday, 11 June 2024, three farmers from Beaufort West, who were beneficiaries of the state’s redistribution programme, returned to the Western Cape High Court for an order holding the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform, and some of her departmental officials in contempt of court for failing to place them in possession of portions of the farm on which they have [...]
The Legal Resources Centre opposes ESTA farm eviction in court
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 June 2024 On 7 June 2024 the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) appeared in the Tsolo Magistrate’s Court to defend the eviction of long-term Extension of Security of Tenure Act (ESTA) occupier Lulama Kapa from a farm he has resided and farmed on for 34 years. Mr Kapa first came to reside on the farm in Tsolo, Eastern Cape, as a farmworker in 1989, and thereafter remained [...]