Freedom to insist on accountability and good governance is a means to greater economic freedom

Posted on May 04, 2016

It’s Freedom Day, a day that reminds us that on 27 April 1994, South Africa had its first democratic elections. All South Africans were for the first time free to vote. Since then, millions of South Africans have expressed their political freedom in numerous elections at various levels of...

The HRDA Chronicles #2: Maushami Chetty (Novate Legal)

Posted on April 26, 2016

The LLM/MPhil in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa (HRDA) is the flagship Masters Programme at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria. Since 2000, the programme has trained some of the best minds in Africa who have gone on to create change in different parts of the world.

Can one go to any extent during protests to have your human rights respected in South Africa?

Posted on April 26, 2016

Ashwanee Budoo from the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights spoke to SABC Morning Live (video below) on the the naked protest staged at Rhodes University, where female students caused quite a stir last week when they protested against sexual violence half-naked.

24th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition, University of Zambia, Lusaka 5-10 October 2015 Report

Posted on November 05, 2015

The African Human Rights Moot Court Competition is the largest gathering of students, academics and judges around the theme of human rights in Africa. This annual event brings together all law faculties in Africa, whose top students argue a hypothetical human rights case as if they were before...