Human Rights

Photo of protest over Xolobeni

Wild Coast battle to save land from mining

We will die for our land, say angry Xolobeni villagers as dune mining looms

Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Paul Botes (with permission of the Mail & Guardian)

News | 12 February 2016

Photo of Christian Martin handing over a letter of complaint to Human Rights Council

PE school shutdown suspended

Parents set deadline for provincial education department

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News | 11 February 2016

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Banned from school for having dreadlocks

A Rastafarian teenager has returned to school after three weeks

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News | 9 February 2016

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When can the police detain you for not showing documents?

Many immigrants are detained arbitrarily

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Analysis | 4 February 2016

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Detainees go to court over conditions in Pollsmoor

65 people held in a cell meant for 25

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News | 3 February 2016

Photo of Athekosi Myoli and Mzamo Sidelo outside the Sonke men's clinic.

HIV-positive prisoner denied antiretroviral treatment

Pollsmoor detainees speak out

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News | 3 February 2016

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Vodacom and MTN: hands off WhatsApp and Skype

Companies want to restrict our access to new data services because they're harder to spy on

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Opinion | 3 February 2016

Quiet walk home turns into nightmare for Malawians

27 January 2016   NEWS

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Asylum-seeker spends six weeks in prison

Photo of Kanyisa Ntombini handing over a memorandum to Max Price.

Disabled UCT students demand access

"It’s not that we are being difficult or trying to make people's lives harder. We just want access to the education we paid for."

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News | 27 January 2016