Human Rights
Law and power: How a prisoner’s journey saved the lives of thousands
A look back at the battle for the rights of HIV-positive prisoners
Analysis | 11 November 2021
India’s Supreme Court strikes a blow against the use of spyware
Ruling offers ways to hold governments and companies accountable
Opinion | 10 November 2021
Toddler airlifted to hospital after falling into uncovered drain
Local farmworker movement plans to lay charges against farmer
News | 5 November 2021
Scathing report released on Cape Town’s homeless policies
The more than 400-page report was compiled by The Inkathalo Conversations and commissioned by the City in 2020
By James Stent
News | 4 November 2021
Immigrant children use art to show how prejudice hurts
“I have never been to the DRC. I speak Sesotho fluently and a bit of Afrikaans but I am treated very differently by my peers.”
Photo Essay | 29 October 2021
Survivors of apartheid violations sleep outside Constitutional Court
They want government to pay them reparations they believe are owed to them
News | 27 October 2021
Sexual offences cases are being withdrawn due to DNA processing backlog
Over 37,000 DNA specimens yet to be processed in the Western Cape alone
Brief | 26 October 2021
Vital Concourt judgment on warrantless searches
Case arises out of “degrading and invasive” raids on “poor and vulnerable” communities in downtown Johannesburg
Law | 25 October 2021
Homeless people organise to vote in local elections
National Homeless Network presents manifesto to ANC, DA, IFP, and Action SA in Durban meeting
News | 22 October 2021