Freedom Under Law (FUL) says former social development minister Bathabile Dlaimin has paid over half a million rand out of her own pocket to settle a costs order handed down in the Constitutional Court in 2018.
She paid R55,000 to the Black Sash and R600,000 to Freedom Under Law.
The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has welcomed Dlamini s payment What the Constitutional Court found in its judgment is that usually if state officials are acting in good faith and with good intentions, then they re not going to be held personly liable for their conduct or for things that have happened in their department, said the centre s Ariella Scher. The court held that the former minister Dlamini s conduct was in bad faith, that her conduct aimed at undermining the social grant system, that she implemented parallel processes that led to the dysfunction, and that as a result, she needed to pay a portion of the costs from her own pocket.
12 May 2021 - Lee-Anne Bruce
CALS represents Open Secrets and the Unpaid Benefits Campaign in a challenge to the secretive process for making appointments to the FSCA
Open Secrets and the Unpaid Benefits Campaign (UBC), represented by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), have approached the Gauteng High Court to set aside portions of the regulations that were made in terms of the Financial Sector Regulation, relating to the appointment process of the Commissioner and Deputy Commissioners of the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).
This forms part of ongoing efforts by both organisations to ensure that the FSCA and other key public institutions intended to regulate powerful private sector corporations act in a manner that serves broad the public interest. Leadership appointments are key to achieving this.
Bernadette Wicks Live export causes horrific cruelty to animals and, in a similar vein, no amount of profit can justify such a practice. The Al-Messilah vessel, used to transport animals from South Africa to the Middle East. Picture: Supplied Lobbyists have likened the live animal export trade with that of illicit drugs and human organs, in another impassioned plea to government to outlaw what they describe as “a barbaric and cruel industry that creates needless suffering and death”. The department of agriculture, land reform and rural development last month put out a call for public comment on a new set of draft guidelines for the transportation of live animals by sea. And Animal Law Reform South Africa (ALRSA) – a nonprofit organisation which works to, among others, “strengthen and develop legislation an
3 May 2021 - Lee-Anne Bruce
CALS is in the Pretoria High Court this week for a review of the 2018 Mining Charter which we believe was developed without meaningfully engaging communities
This week, the High Court in Pretoria is set to hear a review of the Mining Charter first brought by the Minerals Council of South Africa. Mining community networks, individual communities and trade unions have all joined the review following a High Court order. CALS represents MACUA and WAMUA, two of the country’s largest community networks, and argues that the Charter was developed without meaningfully engaging the communities it impacts.