The establishment by South Africa of a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT) is a long overdue and welcome development in the prevention and combating of torture in the country. While OPCAT creates the obligation to establish and […]
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the Water Rights Webinar Series Provincial intervention in a municipal crisis: Lessons from Makana Makana is a municipality in crisis. It faces various service delivery, administrative and financial challenges. Water supply across the municipality, and in Makhanda in particular, has […]
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the Water Rights Webinar Series Self-supply – lessons from Harrismith’s ‘Water Heroes’ “Maluti-a-Phofung – a community doing it for themselves” is one of four cases in SERI’s Claiming Water Rights in South Africa research series. The case documents the efforts of an […]
