by PB-M-Admin | Feb 28, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020
By Melissa Engelbrecht, Cape Town intern On 15 January 2020 the nation woke up to the shocking news of the disappearance and subsequent death of Enoch Mpianzi, a 13-year old grade eight scholar at Parktown Boys High School in Johannesburg. According to various media...
by PB-M-Admin | Dec 19, 2019 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News
By Thulisile M. Buthelezi, Durban intern The Regulation of Gatherings Act 205 of 1993 is an important piece of legislation used to regulate the holding of public gatherings and demonstrations. South Africa’s right to take to the streets to march, demonstrate or...
by PB-M-Admin | Oct 24, 2019 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, NEWSLETTERS 2019
By Yolanda Mnyengeza, Cape Town intern In early September 2019, residents of Cape Town took to the streets after a series of gruesome murders of women during National Women’s Month, many of them demanding that the death penalty be reinstated as a form of...
by PB-M-Admin | Oct 24, 2019 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, NEWSLETTERS 2019, PAST EVENTS
By Muchengeta Hwacha, Johannesburg intern The Centre for Human Rights, in collaboration with the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), invited ProBono.Org to participate in a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Forum on the sidelines of the third ordinary session of the...
by PB-M-Admin | Aug 22, 2019 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, NEWSLETTERS 2019
By Siphesihle Mayedwa, Cape Town intern When a decree of divorce is granted on the grounds of irretrievable breakdown the court may make an order that the patrimonial benefits of the marriage be forfeited by one party in favour of the other, either wholly or in...
by PB-M-Admin | Aug 22, 2019 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, News, NEWSLETTERS 2019
By Sethabile Sithole, Durban intern Our country is one that has people from diverse cultures and backgrounds. This is evident in the existence of legal pluralism that exists in our legal system. This is discernable in the judicial accommodation of non-state law when...
