LRC honours struggle activist Vesta Smith For Immediate Release: Thursday 30 August 2012 In commemorating women's month, the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) will honour one of the liberation movement'...

Submissions to Parliament have mostly requested that the Black Authorities Act be repealed More than 40 women and men from some of the remotest rural enclaves of the country trekked to Parliament th...

PARLIAMENT - The geographic boundaries of the Black Authorities Act (BAA), while having been expunged from the statute books, remain firmly in place through the complex myriad of post-apartheid legisl...

All legislation relating to traditional authorities must be scrapped, the National Assembly's rural development and land reform committee has heard. In a presentation to the committee -- currently ...

On Tuesday 11th May 2010, the Constitutional Court declared the Communal Land Right Act (CLaRA) unconstitutional. Represented by Legal Resources Centre and the Webber Wentzel Pro Bono Unit, the four...

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The government is preparing to overhaul land reform legislation, with the controversial Expropriation Bill coming off the shelf and the agriculture department looking at legislating targets for BEE ow...

Presented by the LRC on the Manepha workshop held in September 2009 under the "Empowering woman leadership amongst people living with HIV" theme. Click here to download

The department of social development has tabled an amendment to the Social Assistance Act that civil society organisations believe may worsen the department's enormous backlog in responding to grant a...

Applicants' Heads of Argument Index to the Founding Papers Founding Papers 12th &13th Respondents' Response to the Applicants' Application in terms of Rules 11, 19 and 16 (4) Annexures to ...

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IN A landmark ruling on Friday, the North Gauteng High Court declared as unconstitutional key provisions of a law that seeks to privatise communal land. If the Constitutional Court confirms the d...

Pretoria High Court declared sections of the Communal Land Rights Act unconstitutional. In a ruling with implications for millions of people in rural areas, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled sec...

CAPE TOWN - In a ruling with implications for millions of people in rural areas, a Pretoria High Court judge has ruled sections of a key land rights' law unconstitutional. The decision was handed do...

Cape Town - Four rural communities on Friday celebrated victory in their High Court challenge to laws governing customary land rights. The court ruled that 14 sections of the Communal Land Rights Ac...

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Submission to the Portfolio Committee & Select Committee on Women, Youth, Children and people with Disabilities: Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act 116 of 1998. Prepared by the Legal Reso...

NGO cluster presentation at the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme Conference in Midrand. The document was prepared by and presented on behalf of the following NGOs: the Nkuzi Development Assoc...

A CONTROVERSIAL bill set to give traditional leaders new powers as officers of the court - a move fiercely opposed by civil society and gender activists - is to resume its journey through Parliament t...