NGO Links 

Centre for Environmental Rights: 

Defending South Africans’ Constitutional right to a healthy environment

The Centre for Environmental Rights (CER) is a non-profit environmental rights law clinic that helps communities to defend their Constitutional right to a healthy environment. Its attorneys use the law to strengthen the voices of communities affected by environmental injustice, pollution and mining, and to hold companies and the state to account for environmental degradation.

Legal Resource Centre: “How can we be poor when we have land?” 

The Legal Resources Centre’s work to promote land rights and rural development in South Africa

For many years the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) has pioneered public interest litigation relating to community access to land and natural resources in South Africa.

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#TextbooksMatter

In November 2015 the Supreme Court of Appeal heard the matter between the Department of Basic Education and Others and Basic Education for All (BEFA) and Others. This important case, about access to textbooks for learners in Limpopo, was the fifth instalment in a protracted legal battle to ascertain whether the right to a full complement of textbooks before the start of the school year was a critical component of the right to a basic education, as enshrined in Section 29(1)(a) of the Constitution of South Africa.