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What’s driving anti-immigrant healthcare blockades? Sharon Ekambaram from Lawyers for Human Rights says it’s everything from the sky-high cost of Zimbabwean passports and corruption to South Africa’s institutionalised xenophobia — and a growing global intolerance of migrants. (Bhekisisa team)
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Court orders government, police to block vigilantes from two clinics — and put up warnings at entrances

The judgment complements a November ruling meant to stop groups such as Operation Dudula from blocking foreign nationals from entering government hospitals and clinics and…

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Student wins institutional bullying battle after racism claim at private varsity

The student says that, after she was abused and belittled, instead of addressing the claims, the college launched disciplinary proceedings against her

Sergeant Dawid Fortuin was being cross-examined by attorney Nobahle Mkabayi, acting for accused two, Steveno van Rhyn

No standing order to record witness statements, court hears in Joslin Smith kidnapping trial

Sergeant Dawid Fortuin was being cross-examined by attorney Nobahle Mkabayi, acting for accused two, Steveno van Rhyn

Nandipha Magudumana at the Bloemfontein Magistrates’ Court in August 2023. (Archive photo: Becker Semela)

Nandipha Magudumana to appeal her extradition on Thursday

She will argue in the Supreme Court of Appeal that her constitutional rights were violated through her ‘forced return’ to South Africa

Eskom is inadvertently helping drive the global sustainable energy movement by rapidly pricing South Africans out of the grid energy market.  Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

SA’s landmark youth-led climate case challenges new coal power plans

Applicants in the Cancel Coal case say the state’s plan threatens several constitutional rights, including the health and well-being of present and future generations

Former president Jacob Zuma Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

Sanef seeks intervention in SABC vs MK party case over Government of National Unity

The public broadcaster has rejected the party’s demand that it not refer to the ruling coalition as a government of national unity as an attack on media freedom

File photo of a homeless man sleeping on a Cape Town road.

Court ruling ordering alternative housing for homeless in Cape Town is welcomed

The city agreed to amend shelter rules to make them more humane and compliant with the Constitution

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party and the African Transformation Movement (ATM) have called for members of the judiciary to undergo lifestyle audits.

Biowatch betrayal denies justice

The unsettling reality of Biowatch principle neglect in lower courts imperils the constitutional integrity of South Africa

Protestors  at the Waterfront waiting the arrival of  the Amazon Warrior . They are against the planned Shell seismic survey for oil and gas in the ocean on November 21, 2021 in Cape Town, South Africa.  It is reported that Shell has announced that it will carry out a three-dimensional seismic survey in search of oil and gas deposits from Morgan Bay to Port St Johns off the Wild Coast. (Photo by Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Battlelines drawn over new seismic survey on the West Coast

The Legal Resources Centre and Richard Spoor Attorneys are heading to court for urgent interdict against Searcher Seismic, an Australian exploration outfit

Debatable: People wear face masks in Tokyo on July 28, a day after the city reported a record 2 848 new daily cases of Covid-19. Many people oppose measures to stop the spread of the virus such as masks and vaccines. They range from ‘free choicers’ and anti-vaxxers to the super-religious.  (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

Covid controls limit our freedom, but free choices are rarely free

Dissident views on masks and vaccines should be heard but until science rules them wrong, it’s best to follow scientists’ advice

Two Somalis, convicted of the murder of a Somali nurse working with a Turkish medical aid unit, are tied to large wooden stakes as they wait to be executed by a firing squad on July 15, 2014 in Mogadishu. (Photo by Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP)

Access to counsel crucial for those facing capital punishment

The deadly institution of the death penalty should be abolished. It undermines humanity and in places where adequate legal representation is inaccessible it is often unjustly…