The Southern African Consortium for Climate Change and Health (“SACCCH”) welcomes the opportunity to make substantive input for developing the content of the draft outline of the General Comment on the right to a satisfactory, clean, healthy and sustainable environment (“Draft General Comment”) to the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Continue Reading
SECTION27 and the SAMRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science (PRICELESS SA) welcome the opportunity to comment on the proposed Draft General Public Procurement Regulations, 2026 (“Draft Regulations”) which seek to create a regulatory framework for public procurement that promotes efficiency, enhances transparency and combats corruption.
SECTION27 has made submissions to the African Court on Human and People’ Rights. Our submissions address the impact of climate change on the rights to basic education and access to health, with specific reference to evidence of these impacts in the SADC region.
The Vaal Environmental Justice Alliance, represented by SECTION27, made an application to be admitted as amicus curiae in the #CancelCoal matter.
SECTION27 has filed an application to intervene as amicus curiae in the matter of Endangered Wildlife Trust v Acting Director General, Department of Water and Sanitation and Atha Africa.
SECTION27 has made submissions to the Department of Basic Education (DBE) on the Draft Regulations on the Management of Learner Pregnancy in Schools, 2026 (“Draft Regulations”), issued in terms of the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 (“SASA”).
SECTION27 has submitted a leave to intervene as amicus curiae (friend of the court) in proceedings initiated by the Pan African Lawyers Association, which invite the Court to elaborate on states’ obligations in relation to climate change. This submission considers the impact of climate change on the rights to basic Continue Reading
The Eastern Cape Health Crisis Action Coalition (ECHCAC) notes the tabling of the 2026 Division of Revenue Bill and the 2025/26 Special Appropriations by the Minister of Finance. ECHCAC members make this submission in their capacity as residents of Komani and the Eastern Cape more broadly. This submission is a Continue Reading
The right to food is guaranteed in several international and regional instruments and in South Africa’s domestic law. Whilst South African jurisprudence on the right to food is limited, the legal protection of the right has become increasingly significant as food insecurity worsens. South African children face a triple burden Continue Reading
SECTION27 (Incorporating the Aids Law Project) welcomes the opportunity to make submissions to the National Department of Health on the reform to the Mental Healthcare Act 17 of 2002 (“the MHCA”).
SECTION27 has made joint submissions with the Rural Health Advocacy Project (RHAP) to the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Human Resources for Health.
The BJC welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on the Fiscal Framework contained in the 2025 budget tabled on 21 May.
