Quote of the week
It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.
The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
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 Commission– ATKV)
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
