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 | Feb 28, 2020 | News, NEWSLETTERS 2020, STAFF NEWS
Johannesburg: Ongezwa Gontshi Ongezwa recently joined ProBono. Org as the finance administrator/project officer on the AFSA/Global Fund project aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination as well as educating and providing legal advice and assistance to persons living...
by PB-M-Admin | Dec 19, 2019 | ATTORNEY MENTIONS, News, PAST EVENTS, PRO BONO AWARDS
On 21 November 2019 we held an award ceremony at Constitution Hill to pay tribute to the many legal practitioners and others who made an exceptional contribution to pro bono work in 2018. Our guest speaker was Judge Jody Kollapen, who pointed out that access to...
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 | Dec 19, 2019 | ATTORNEY WORKSHOPS 2019, News
By Uzair Adams The sex work sensitisation training seminars took place in collaboration between ProBono.Org and the Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), South Africa’s leading sex worker human rights organisation, providing services to sex...
by PB-M-Admin | Oct 24, 2019 | ARTICLES ABOUT PROBONO.ORG, News, NEWSLETTERS 2019
Teresa Yates has been appointed as the National Director of ProBono. Org. She was until recently Deputy National Director of the Legal Resources Centre (LRC). Besides legal training, she has a background in human rights and development on the continent. In her 22...
