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NGOs in court bid to derail pardons for apartheid crimes (22.03.09)

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 ...

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Court challenge over presidential pardons (18.03.09)

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. ...

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Cele receives death threat (13.02.09)

Rogue elements in the taxi industry are planning to assassinate KwaZulu-Natal's community liaison and safety MEC Bheki Cele, according to police sources. Information from police officers has also revealed a brazen plot ...

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Report – Guns and Roses: Advocacy in an Emerging Democracy (Executive Summary) (13.02.09)

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 ...

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Secret AIDS-death report in South African prisons released (2.02.09)

A South African high court judge has ordered the country's prisons department to immediately hand over a secret report about the death of a prisoner who was given antiretroviral treatment far ...

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Rights body wary of political pardons (22.01.09)

Franny Rabkin THE South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has added its voice to a coalition of civil society organisations calling for a revision of a presidential pardon process to address politically ...

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Woman a day shot and killed by an intimate partner in SA (5.01.09)

HERALD CORRESPONDENT Cape Town – A woman a day on average is shot and killed by an intimate partner, a seminar on the impact of firearms on domestic violence has heard. About 80 ...

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