On Wednesday 21 October 2020, the Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) will table_ Imali Yesizwe_ (Our Nation’s Money) – an alternative, people’s budget based on human rights. BJC anticipates that the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS), now due to be tabled by Finance Minister Tito Mboweni on 28 October 2020, will accelerate the austerity of […]
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 […]
