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...
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 | News, NEWSLETTERS 2019, PAST EVENTS
By Muchengeta Hwacha, Johannesburg intern On 4 September 2019, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) called an emergency meeting to address the spate of violence that had erupted against foreign...
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...
