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The Pretoria high court will today hear an application by a coalition of civil organisations for an interdict preventing President Kgalema Motlanthe from pardoning more than 100 people convicted of apartheid-era political ...

By Charlotte Plantive Threats, disrupted meetings and killings have tarnished campaigning for South Africa's elections, as the country struggles to fully overcome the legacy of violence in politics.An election monitoring group recently ...

By Political BureauSix Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members jailed over the death of a black man and an attack on others have launched a joint bid to halt a legal challenge from civil rights ...

By Charlayne Hunter-Gault Inside a tiny, one-room shack in South Africa's sprawling Soweto Township, an 8-year-old girl tells her playmates she wants to be a doctor. This little girl has met many ...

By Hugo van der Merwe, Fanie du Toit and Rebecca MurdochThis week a group of South African non-governmental organisations filed papers in the Pretoria High Court to prevent President Kgalema Motlanthe from ...

A court challenge over the issuing of presidential pardons will be brought this week by a coalition of victim and civil society organisations, the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) said on Wednesday. ...

By Marian Nell & Janet Shapiro Introduction Advocacy, or the active support of a cause, idea or policy, is as old as the story of humankind. To hold a position or belief and ...