Mar 8th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
CALL FOR ENDORSEMENTS!
SUPPORT EQUAL EDUCATION’S CAMPAIGN FOR SCHOOL LIBRARIES!
SUPPORT THIS AS A STEP TOWARDS A MOVEMENT FOR QUALITY AND EQUAL EDUCATION FOR ALL!
Please see the attached memorandum.
We are calling for endorsements from organizations, schools, universities, student societies, youth movements, newspapers, and clubs. All organs of civil society are invited [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
Made In China for the World Cup
By Zanna Bliss
Last week, while walking down Cape Town’s Main Road in the Woodstock/Salt River area where I live, I saw something I had never seen before. At one of the closed-down, decrepit, art deco-era textile factories, a door was standing ajar. Curious, I peered inside, and upon looking [...]
Feb 15th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
The conditionality of human rights in Israel and Palestine
By Daniel Mackintosh
The recognition of and respect for human rights are the bedrock of any substantive democracy. Yet, according to the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)’s State of Human Rights Report 2009, they are being applied in a discriminatory manner. The Report, published in December [...]
Jan 27th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
Many people have and will continue to spend much time in the coming weeks and months on the Haiti relief effort. Such actions should be applauded. As we try to shape our own response, as students, individuals, activists, and members of various organizations we must realize that the situation requires us, whilst giving generously, to [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
A response to Prof Asmal’s view on the reparations case
Jaco Barnard-Naudé
Prof Kader Asmal’s erudite opinion (avaliable here) on why the Apartheid reparation cases should not be heard in the United States but rather return to South Africa illustrates exactly how legally unaccountable entities with separate legal personality are internationally for their complicity in crimes against humanity: customary [...]
Jan 18th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
NO IMMUNITY FOR MULTINATIONALS IMPLICATED IN APARTHEID’S CRIMES
Michael Osborne (published today in the Cape Times)
Last week, a New York Court heard argument on an appeal by five multinational corporations against a 2009 ruling in which a trial court gave the green light to a suit filed by South Africans who suffered injuries at the hands [...]
Jan 14th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
A HUMAN RIGHTS IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE
ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL
By Sylvia Tamale
[Public Dialogue November 18, 2009, Makerere University]
[NOTE: Prof Tamale is the Dean of the Law Faculty at the Makerere University in Uganda. She informs me that the Museveni government yesterday distanced itself from this Bill and that it might well be withdrawn.]
I would like [...]
Jan 13th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
Angry appeals show true colours of business
Published in Business Day on 13 January 2009
JACO BARNARD-NAUDÉ
THE apartheid reparation cases in the US courts continue this week amid news that similar cases are now being prepared in Europe. The corporations that have been sued in the US have done everything in their power to resist these claims [...]
Jan 11th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA REPORTABLE
WESTERN CAPE HIGH COURT, CAPE TOWN)
Case No: 14830/09
In the matter between
TATIANA MALACHI APPLICANT
and
CAPE DANCE ACADEMY INT. (PTY) LTD FIRST RESPONDENT
HOUSE OF RASPUTIN PROPERTIES (PTY) LTD SECOND RESPONDENT
ADDITIONAL MAGISTRATE,
DISTRICT OF CAPE TOWN THIRD RESPONDENT
MINISTER OF JUSTICE FOURTH [...]
Jan 6th, 2010
by Pierre De Vos.
By DORON ISAACS – Published in Business Day on 7 January 2009
IN LONG Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela places enormous hope in education. “Education is the great engine of personal development,” he writes. “It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become [...]