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Category Archives: human rights
Laura Kapelari, Social media rape culture and how women are fighting back
The Right to Shelter: Let Down by the Judicial System in South Africa. Interview with Professor Bonita Meyersfeld, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Wits
Antony Loewenstein, The daily inhumanity of Guantanamo Bay
Rebecca Davis, Zille continues to bat for Motshekga against education activists
The article shows how DA leader Helen Zille disagrees with attempts to force the Basic Education Minister to provide basic infrastructure creating an environment for education. Instead she, and Jonathan Jansen, VC of The University of the Free State argue that this is misplaced where quality teaching is absent and this, in the view of Jansen should be related to other routes to economic advancement more lucrative than teaching.. Davis shows that the provision of toilets, buildings etc are not seen as a total answer to the problem of education but that these are a crucial element of what is required for an adequate learning environment.
Sisonke Msimang, Who killed Pinky Mosiane?
This article demonstrates how the regulations stipulating that women be employed underground in the mines, is not supported by measures to protect them from sexual abuse. The murder of Pinky Mosiane has not been properly investigated nor has Anglo American or the National Union of Mineworkers taken firm steps to see that justice is done. While women working underground are especially vulnerable it is part of an overall situation where most women report sexual harassment at the workplace in South Africa
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-08-01-who-killed-pinky-mosiane/#.UfniGY03ByU
Niki Moore,Anatomy of an assassination
Political assassinations are becoming a fairly routine part of political life in a number of provinces and many of the victims are alleged whistleblowers exposing corruption in the provision of housing and other basic rights. It is part of a broader subversion of constitutionalism and widespread resort to violence to implement private goals, albeit as leaders at various levels of the ANC.
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-07-31-kzn-anatomy-of-an-assassination/#.UfkmfhbH0y5
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