Quote of the week

Israel has knowingly and deliberately continued to act in defiance of the [International Court of Justice] Order. In addition to causing the death by starvation of Palestinian children in babies, Israel has also continued to kill approximately 4,548 Palestinian men, women and children since 26 January 2024, and to wound a further 7,556, bringing the grim totals to 30,631 killed and 72,043 injured. An unknown number of bodies remain buried under the rubble. 1.7 million Palestinians remain displaced — many of them permanently, Israel having damaged or destroyed approximately 60 per cent of the housing stock in Gaza. Approximately 1.4 million people are squeezed into Rafah — which Israel has stated it intends to attack imminently. Israel’s destruction of the Palestinian healthcare system has also continued apace, with ongoing, repeated attacks on hospitals, healthcare, ambulances and medics. Israel has also continued to conduct widespread attacks on schools, mosques, businesses and entire villages and areas.

Republic of South Africa Urgent Request to the International Court of Justice for Additional Measures South Africa v Israel
29 September 2010

1st Human Rights Indaba at North West University

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st Human Rights Indaba

The Role of Local Government and the Lower Courts in Realising Socio-Economic

Rights in the North-West, Northern Cape and Free State Provinces

PROGRAMME 29 October 2010

Feather Hill Spa, Potchefstroom

08:00 – 08:30 Registration

08:30 – 08:45 Welcoming of participants on behalf of the North-West University and the Konrad-

Adenauer-Foundation

Dr Werner Böhler (KAF), Prof Madoda Zibi (NWU) and Prof Francois Venter (Faculty of Law,

NWU)

Session 1

Chair: Prof David Bilchitz (Director: SAIFAC and Professor of Law, UJ)

08:45 – 09:15

Positive Obligations Arising from Socio-Economic Rights: Reflections on the Role of

Local Government and the Lower Courts

Justice Pius Langa

(Former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court)

09:15 – 09:30

09:30 – 09:45

09:45 – 10:30

Judge Jody Kollapan

(Acting Judge, North Gauteng High Court)

Prof Lourens du Plessis

Discussion

(Professor of Law, US)

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee and Tea break

Session 2

Chair:

Commissioner of the South African Human Rights Commission)

Prof Leon Wessels (Honorary Professor, Faculty of Law, NWU and Former

Socio-Economic Rights in the South African Constitution and the Notion of

‘Developmental Local Government’:

10:45 – 11:15 Prof Linda Stewart

Connections and Challenges(Professor of Law, NWU)

11:15 – 11:45 Prof Bernard Bekink

(Professor of Law, UP)

11:45 – 12:15

12:15 – 12:45

12:45 – 13:00

13:00 – 14:00

Ms Annette May

(Researcher: Community Law Centre, UWC)

Mr Marece Wenhold & Mr Paul van Hoof

Discussion

(IDASA)

Lunch Break

Session 3

Chair: Prof Francois Venter (NWU, South Africa)

The Role of the Lower Courts in Promoting and Protecting the Socio-Economic

Rights of Local Communities

14:00 – 14:30 Dr Danny Titus

and Executive Director: Culture

(Part-time Commissioner of the South African Human Rights CommissionATKV)

14:30 – 15:00 Ms Jakkie Wessels

(Regional Court President: Limpopo, Department of Justice)

15:00 – 15:30 Mr Kemi Behari

(Magistrate of the Regional Court, Department of Justice)

15:30 – 16:00

Discussion

16:00

Wrap-up

(Prof Oladejo Olowu, NWU, South Africa)

Closure and Coffee on the Run

The NWU Faculty of Law and the

Konrad Adenauer Foundation are bound

by section 16 of the Constitution of the

Republic of South Africa, 1996 to allow freedom of expression. However, opinions, views and conclusions

expressed at the Colloquium are those of the presenters and/or participants and not necessarily those of

the organising institutions.

Please fax the attached registration form not later than

4 October 2010

to:

Mrs Rieëtte Venter

Fax: 018 293 5328 OR E-mail:

rieette.venter@nwu.ac.zaNo registration fees are payable

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