17 April 2026 is RWA: International Day of Peasant Struggle! ✊
Coastal Links will be speaking at the Rural Women's Assembly webinar, highlighting the lived realities of small-scale fishers, the ongoing struggles within fishing communities, and amplifying voices that are too often unheard.
Rubicon secured millions to train learners. But the programme never materialised.
What happened, and how the money was approved, is the subject of our latest investigation.
Coming Sunday.
[WATCH] Today, we are supporting 35 young people from Bertrams, Johannesburg to join the SA Youth Network.
In this training, young people will access learning and work opportunities while also gaining exposure to the job market.
The 8th episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on all major podcasting platforms.
Tap the link to listen: pari.org.za/podcast-just...
Host:
Tasneem Essop
Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI
Mahlatse Rampedi, Researcher, PARI
Produced by:
Richard Rumney
📢 Press Statement | Lawyers for Human Rights Launches Report Exposing Corruption in South Africa’s Asylum System 📢
This goes beyond administrative failure. It exposes a deeply entrenched injustice that calls for urgent accountability and meaningful reform!
Today we gather for the Labour Tenants Claims Resolution Programme (LTCRP) CBO Task Team, AFRA & Special Master of Labour Tenants (SMLT) Land Court Reflection and Engagement Meeting.
#LandJustice #LTCRP #AFRA #LabourTenants
#CBOsTaskTeam
Today, the Social Employment Fund Greening and Environment team in Masakhane had a recycling training with @Petco in partnership with Planact.
#SocialEmploymentFund
#CommunityDevelopment
#CommonGood
#RecyclableWaste
Corporate lobbying to weaken and delay climate and pollution regulation is pervasive, and largely unseen. Just Share has long argued that significant penalties should apply to companies that pollute in excess of their carbon budgets.
Read more: justshare.org.za/opaque-corpo...
The eighth episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out tomorrow, the 14th of March on all major podcasting platforms.
Host:
Tasneem Essop
Guests:
Kate Tissington, Researcher, PARI
#JustEnergyTransition #JustTransitionPodcast #aPARIpodcast #PublicParticipation
Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR), celebrates these appointments. As South Africa honours the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March, these appointments represent a pivotal milestone in our constitutional history.
Read here: shorturl.at/tcdkm
Research Internship Opportunity | Johannesburg
The RAITH Foundation is recruiting a full-time Research Intern for a 12-month contract (June 2026 – May 2027).
Apply by: 30 April 2026 (17:00)
Full details and application instructions : bit.ly/3Q5y6pe
Tangible foundations of the Just Transition
Land is the base resource on which the climate response is negotiated. The renewable energy responses, adaptation and mitigation strategies are all hosted on land. Despite its importance and centrality -land has remained an invisible topic in the debates
The #ConCourt is clear: You can’t profit from an unlawful public contract.
But with #CPS insolvent, the question is whether any of that money can be recovered.
amaB has been investigating this tender for over a decade.
Joburg Urban Crisis Seminar on 16 April 1-3pm
Civil society engagement with local government: the case of Joburg Crisis Alliance by Yunus Chamda & Lisa Seftel with discussant @devanp52.bsky.social
pari.org.za/pari-urban-c...
🚨URGENT: MELGISEDEK RESIDENTS FACE EVICTION AS LHR HEADS TO COURT TODAY🚨
Almost 600 residents (Including Women and Children) are facing eviction from the Melgisedek building in Pretoria by City of Tshwane.
Official post here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
AmaBhungane first reported on the taxi mafia’s deadly attacks on long-distance buses in 2022.
Bonke Makalala, the Eastern Cape taxi boss identified by Intercape CEO Johann Ferreira, appeared with six co-accused at the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 30 March 2026,
Part 4 of Surviving on Four Buckets is now live
Household-level ‘self-provisioning’ strategies focus on the acquisition of private storage tanks as a coping response to unreliable tanker-based supply.But households’ investments in storage are frequently undermined by the absence of
📣Human Rights Festival is upon us📣
Want to know what happened at Stilfontein?
We are excited to announce our first workshop, an immersive multimedia experience unpacking what unfolded in Stilfontein.
🗓 26 March
⏰ 10h00 to 11h30
📍 Dignity Room, Constitutional Hill
In 2024, Johannesburg Water appointed two little-known companies – Builtpro and Nutinox – to provide water tankers to the City at an estimated cost of R263-million over the next three years.
Yesterday, we unpacked the first-ever local benchmark of asset manager performance against global best-practice standards. The insights from the conversation are too important to miss.
Missed the webinar? 🎥Watch it here 👇 youtu.be/OIcPQlXLUro
📢 LHR at the Marginalised and Affected Communities Summit
On 11 Feb, our ERP team joined the MAC Summit.
Phyllia Ngoatje highlighted that SA’s critical minerals strategy must protect communities & the environment. Consent, accountability & participation are key for a just transition ✊🏾
UPDATE: The sudden departure of PetroSA’s interim CEO Sesakho Magadla raises a lot of questions. The state-owned petroleum company, PetroSA, has had 8 CEOs in 10 years, but Magadla – who was the driving force behind the Gazprombank deal – is its most controversial.
Empowering the next generation!
#SEF Safety and Security team hosted a Safe Space for Girls awareness campaign this Valentine's day. Over 100 young girls attended the event👏🏽
#SelfLove #CommunitySafety
#SafeSpaces #GirlsEmpowerment
The first episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is available on all major podcasting platforms. Tap the link below to listen.
pari.org.za/podcast-just...
After decades of waiting, and ground work supported by Planact, the #EkurhuleniMunicipality's #HumanaSettlementOversightCommittee finally opens its doors to engage with Mkhancwa informal settlement
Read more👇🏽
www.planact.org.za/frustration-...
The first episode of Just Access: The Real Transition (A PARI podcast) is out on Tuesday the 17th of February.
The episode explores the material conditions of survival in the context of water and electricity service provision. It interrogates how people are connected in name but excluded in reality.
Last week our Monitoring Indoor Climate Extremes with Residents and the Internet of Things (MICE RIoT) team gathered to conduct a battery replacements for the heat sensors that are capturing the extreme heat conditions being experienced in our communities.
#DataGovernanceAfrica #EnablingChange
DAY THREE OF FARM DWELLERS (FDs) & LABOUR TENANTS (LTs) COMMUNITY BASED ORGANISATIONS (CBOs) REPRESENTATIVES ENGAGEMENT WORKSHOP
#AFRA_WABANTU
#justice_through_land_and_sustainable_livelihoods
Sobering data from Eskom shows that the coal fleet was only available to produce electricity 58% of the time in 2025. The official EAF figure that Eskom publishes is 62% but that combines different technologies – like hydro, nuclear and coal – together, making the picture look more pleasing.
📢 The Climate Justice Handbook for Children and Youth 📢
We are pleased to announce that our Climate Justice for Children and Youth handbook 📗 launched on 8 Dec 2025 is now available on our website!
Download here⬇️: www.lhr.org.za/.../climate-...
