SECTION27 prepares to take Limpopo Department of Education to court of over poor sanitation, again – this time in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic 3 June 2020 – SECTION27 is representing the School Governing Body (SGB) of Kharivha Primary School (“Kharivha”) in Ndovhada village in Limpopo, a Continue Reading
STATEMENT: TAC and SECTION27 push back against the return of the quacks Johannesburg, 26 May 2020 – As scientists around the world search for viable vaccines for COVID-19, a virus that has infected over 5,4 million people and caused the deaths of about 345 000 people, a case about Continue Reading
21 May 2020 CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR PRINCIPLED CONTRACTING WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN THE COVID-19 HEALTH RESPONSE, AS WELL AS MORE COORDINATION AND TRANSPARENCY The undersigned civil society organisations welcome the measures put in place by government to combat the spread of COVID-19. The Continue Reading
Following years of negotiations between the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and the AIDS Law Project (ALP) regarding the SANDF’s old health classification policy that excluded people living with HIV from recruitment, external deployment and promotion in the military, in 2008 the North Gauteng High Court settled the matter. Pursuant to an out of court settlement between the two parties, the Court declared such policy as unconstitutional to the extent that it violated the rights of aspirant and serving members of the SANDF to equality and dignity, among other rights.