The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Mail & Guardian invite you to the   Water Rights Webinar Series Expropriation as a tool: the Marikana experience The Marikana informal settlement in Cape Town is home to over 60 000 people.  For years, the residents of Marikana have persistently and innovatively engaged in a diversity of strategies to improve their living conditions....

Constitutional Court to rule on 1982 legislation By Zoë Postman General Alfred Moyo, an activist in Makause informal settlement in the east of Johannesburg, is at the centre of a court case that challenges the constitutionality of part of the Intimidation Act of 1982. The application to have a section of the Act struck down was heard in the Constitutional Court on Tuesday...