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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 She informs me that the Museveni government yesterday distanced itself from this Bill and that it might well be withdrawn.]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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]