Human Rights
How a determined community is fighting the army’s attempts to evict them
Happiness Village’s residents fear for their lives and face unlawful evictions, beatings and intimidation, legal action and shack demolitions
Feature | 9 September 2021
City of Cape Town defends its demolition of Green Point tent camp in court
Ndifuna Ukwazi says City by-laws cannot be allowed to trump constitutional rights
News | 6 September 2021
“The investigating officer in charge of my case used to chill with my rapist”
Rape Crisis marks six years since the launch of its Rape Survivors’ Justice Campaign
News | 27 August 2021
Study finds extreme levels of violence against sex workers
Decriminalisation of sex work will make women safer, says advocacy group
By Elsabé Brits
News | 27 August 2021
“I’m scared to be among my own brothers and sisters” says gay Zimbabwean activist
A week ago a man living in Langa was assaulted by two other Zimbabwean men
News | 25 August 2021
Phoenix “vigilante killings”: dozens march to police station demanding judicial inquiry
“I saw so much hate in people’s eyes as they beat me up”
News | 16 August 2021
Court orders church to pay transgender woman R600,000 in damages
International Pentecost Holiness Church members undressed Karabo Ndlovu to conduct a gender test
Law | 4 August 2021
The Human Rights Commission is wrong: vaccines are not always optional
The Commission is undermining the state’s vaccine programme
Opinion | 29 July 2021
Law graduates to challenge legal profession’s discrimination against immigrants
Zimbabwean-born and fully South African qualified advocate works as a waiter because of legal profession’s rules
Law | 27 July 2021