by Yonela Yame | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter
On 17 July 2024, ProBono.Org held a belated celebration to mark Youth Day. We hosted a dialogue discussion at Fort High School in Dobsonville, Soweto, in collaboration with Africa Unite, a human rights and youth empowerment organisation that aims to enhance social...
by Aphiwe Nonyukela | Aug 22, 2024 | Newsletter, PAST EVENTS
ProBono.Org in collaboration with the Messina Legal Advice Office (MLAO) and the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA), celebrated World Refugee Day in Musina this year. Situated in the north of Limpopo and close to the Zimbabwean border, it...
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...
