Topic: “Entrenching a human rights culture in South Africa – problems, prospects,successes”
Videos
On 03 October 2017, the founder of the Graça Machel Foundation,Graça Machel delivered the 11th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture. The lecture, titled ‘A call for a nation’s soul searching’, reflected on the founding principles of the South African Freedom Charter and Constitution. Machel also addressed the spate of violence, moral degeneration and socio-economic inequalities in the country, after which she called for a framework for healing and action.
On 20 August 2017, Prof Jaap de Visser delivered a keynote address at the above conference, convened at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. His address dealt with the role of local government in realising socio-economic rights.
The founder of the Graça Machel Trust,Graça Machel delivered the 11th Dullah Omar Memorial Lecture at the University of the Western Cape organised by the Dullah Omar Institute. Her topic was "A Call for a Nation's Soul Searching".
Former Constitutional Court Judge, Albie Sachs, delivered the OR Tambo Centenary Lecture at the University of the Western Cape on 25 April 2017. This was the third Lecture in a four-part series given by Albie Sachs, and the lecture was titled “The Constitution: the negotiation processes that led to South Africa’s first great act of decolonisation”.
Chaque année, des milliers de personnes en Afrique sont arrêtées et détenues en Afrique pour des infractions mineures, dont beaucoup remontent à l'époque coloniale, y compris le fait d'être « un voyou et vagabond ».
Prof De Visser, Director of the Dullah Omar Institute and local government expert has been providing expert analysis in various media on the 2016 elections and on coalitions. He explained the rules governing elections and particularly the rules impacting on the efforts to build coalitions in so called 'hung councils'.
On 3 August, millions of voters will exercise their right to vote and decide who controls South Africa’s 257 municipalities. The stakes are high because municipalities deal with basic services and parties are competing for control of powerful cities, such as Johannesburg, Cape Town and eThekwini.
The Forum of Federations, a global network on federalism and devolved governance, has produced an educational video series on decentralisation. It includes a documentary on South Africa in which Jaap de Visser analyses the history and practice of provinces and municipalities in South Africa.
Every year thousands of people in Africa are arrested and detained in Africa for pettyoffences, many dating back to colonial times such as being ‘a rogue and vagabond’.
As part of our 25th Anniversary, we collected the perspectives of a range of individuals who all have in common that they were associated with the Community Law Centre and/or with our founding Director, the late Adv Dullah Omar.