by Pearl Khumalo | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter, PAST EVENTS
20 June 2024 marked World Refugee Day, an international day of recognition for asylum seekers and refugees. To qualify for refugee status in South Africa, an applicant’s circumstances must fit within the scope of Section3 of the Refugees Act (130 of 1998), namely,...
by Pearl Khumalo | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter
On 19 July 2024, ProBono.Org Durban, in collaboration with HIAS South Africa practitioners, candidate legal practitioners and paralegals. The purpose of the event was to capacitate the pro bono panel to assist ProBono.Org with refugee law matters. The event commenced...
by PB-M-Admin | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter
Ms Memeza is a chartered accountant by profession with more than 10 years’ experience in financial management, and currently an MBA candidate. She has worked in the motor industry, consulting both in public and private sector and auditing of various manufacturing...
by PB-M-Admin | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter
3 July 2024 marked 40 years since the High Court in Pretoria, the then Transvaal Provincial Division, admitted me as an advocate. In 1984 the RAU Law Clinic (now UJ) required an admitted practitioner to assist at one of the law clinics on a part- time basis. I fit the...
by PB-M-Admin | Jun 24, 2024 | Newsletter
Welcome to our new staff and interns Lethiwe Ngubane – Durban Staff Attorney Lethiwe Ngubane completed her LLB degree in 2019 at The University of Kwa-Zulu Natal. She thereafter served her articles at the UKZN Law Clinic and was admitted as an attorney in 2023....
by Nonkululeko Sibambato | Jun 24, 2024 | Newsletter
Picture: Jacques Nelles On 24 May 2024, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the National Council on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Bill (the GBVF Bill). The establishment of the National Council was one of the resolutions of the first Presidential Summit on...
