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Invitation for Public Submissions­ by Constitutional Review Committee
In terms of Section 45(1 )(c) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, the Constitutional Review Committee must review the Constitution annually. Members of the public are therefore invited to make written submissions to the Committee on specific sections of the Constitution that they feel need to [...]

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire, Edited by Robert Leckey, Kim Brooks
Price: $125.00 $112.50, ISBN: 978-0-415-57228-6
Publish Date: June 4th 2010 
Description
Queer Theory: Law, Culture Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and [...]

GOVERNMENT OF THE RSA V GROOTBOOM: A TEN YEAR RETROSPECTIVE
The VerLoren van Themaat Centre for Public Law Studies at UNISA has been presenting a series of retrospectives on key developments in South African constitutional law since 2005. The first retrospective took the form of a two day seminar on S v Makwanyane and its legacy. [...]

Good Governance Project
The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Faculty of Law, NWU (Potchefstroom) cordially invite all interested parties from the judiciary, government departments, private practice, non-governmental organisations and academic institutions to a two-day colloquium on: Good governance in land tenure 22 and 23 April 2010
Venue: Faculty of Law, North-west University, Potchefstroom
The programme will, inter alia, focus on: [...]

STAND FOR SANITATION, SAFETY & DIGNITY!

Hundreds to Queue Outside Sea Point Public Toilet to Draw Attention to
Poor Sanitation Services in Informal Settlements

Last year, Ntombentsha Beja – a 75 year old resident of Makhaza, Khayelitsha was stabbed in the chest while walking to a toilet ten minutes from her home.  She is not alone [...]

Following the tabling of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill before the Ugandan Parliament which provides for imprisonment and the death penalty for infringements of the Bill, civil society organisations in Africa are mobilizing to persuade Ugandan Parliamentarians to block this pernicious Bill. The Bill could become law during the course of this year.
We have pasted below a [...]

Idasa’s Democracy Index
Testing Democracy: Which way is South Africa going?
For electronic copy of index click here.
This report from the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa) suggests that South African democracy is developing slowly, stagnating in many areas and actually regressing in others. South Africa scored 5,8 on a scale of ten. Idasa’s Democracy Index [...]

PRESS RELEASE
The Western Cape End Hate Alliance calls on your Solidarity and Support
Your VISIBILITY and ACTIVE PRESENCE is needed on MONDAY, 15 MARCH 2010 at Khayelitsha Magistrates Court
We demand JUSTICE without delay tactics!
>> Court dates set from 15 – 19 March 2010 <<

We, the partners of the Western Cape 070707 End Hate Campaign, DEMAND [...]

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA MEDIA STATEMENT
17 FEBRUARY 2010
Appointment of Judge MM Joffe as the Director of the newly established South African Judicial Education Institute Braamfontein
The Council of the South African Judicial Education Institute resolved to appoint the South Gauteng High Court Judge MM Joffe as its first Director who will commence his duties on [...]

Statement from the Synod of Bishops, 8-11 February 2010
The Anglican Church of Southern Africa
Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Draft Bill
We, the Bishops of the Anglican Church in Southern Africa, meeting at Thokoza Conference Centre, Swaziland, from 8 to 12 February 2010, are disturbed by the debate among Ugandan law-makers of a draft bill that seek to criminalize homosexuality [...]