by PB-M-Admin | Oct 1, 2020 | COVID 19 Related News, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020
By Siyabonga Zondi and Sinothile Zondi (Durban interns) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the founding document of the United Nations, states that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of...
by PB-M-Admin | Aug 27, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, COVID 19 Related News, News, Newsletter, NEWSLETTERS 2020
By Obakeng Phatshwane (Candidate Attorney, Fasken) Given the impact of COVID 19 and the plight of asylum seekers, this decision remains crucial for those seeking asylum. The substitution by a court of an administrator’s decision2 in granting asylum is a...
by PB-M-Admin | Jul 24, 2020 | ARTICLES ABOUT PROBONO.ORG, COVID 19 Related News, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020
By Mattew December, Legal Intern, Cape Town “What do you think the organisation can do for you and your personal development?” This was the stand-out question for me during my interview with ProBono.Org in Cape Town during December 2019. I thought for a second,...
by PB-M-Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, COVID 19 Related News, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020
By Sinothile Zondi, Durban intern I live in Effigham, a suburb of Durban North, with my sister. We each have a young child. During the lockdown we have both been working from home. My suburb consists of mostly formal housing, with some shacks on the outskirts....
by PB-M-Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, COVID 19 Related News, News, NEWSLETTERS 2020
Pandemics have a way of elevating economic inequalities and revealing the injustices occurring in marginalised communities. There is no doubt that what COVID-19 has revealed, amongst other things, is how it is disproportionately impacting disadvantaged communities....
by PB-M-Admin | May 26, 2020 | ARTICLES OF INTEREST, COVID 19 Related News, News
By Mattew December, Legal Intern – Cape Town De Doorns is a small agricultural town in the heart of the Hex River Valley, 30 kilometers outside Worcester in the Western Cape. The town is renowned as the country’s biggest exporter of table grapes and a large...