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“Even after trading academia for the political arena Prof Kader Asmal remained a true academic at heart. He will be remembered for his passion for democracy, human rights and academic freedom,” Prof Russel Botman, Rector and Vice-Chancellor said in a Stellenbosch University tribute to Prof Asmal. “He was a principled leader who spearheaded the challenging [...]

The high level of poverty and large wealth gap in South Africa pose a serious threat to democracy, the rule of law and national reconciliation, Former Chief Justice Pius Langa warned last night [30 May 2011] at a Colloquium on Law and Poverty hosted by Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Law Faculty. “Not enough attention has been [...]

Transnational businesses are getting away with injustices against the global poor because the Westphalian nation-state system is shielding them from valid claims by the dispossessed, argued philosopher Prof Nancy Fraser at the opening of the Law Faculty’s Colloquium on Law and Poverty yesterday [29 May 2011]. “We airbrush away all actors, processes and mechanisms that [...]

“I can’t think of a better role model for our law students today,” Professor Sandy Liebenberg of Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Law Faculty said yesterday (17 February 2011) of Mr Kobus Pienaar, a lawyer and ex-Matie who passed away on 4 February. She dedicated her lecture at the first Stellenbosch Forum of the year to Pienaar, [...]

By including socio-economic rights as enforceable rights in the Bill of Rights, South Africans acknowledged poverty is a matter of deep constitutional concern, writes Sandra Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Professor in Human Rights Law at Stellenbosch University Faculty of Law, in an article that was published in the Cape Times on Saturday, 11 September 2010, on [...]

Stellenbosch University will present a topical conference on how one can give concrete shape to hope in the new South Africa on 22 July in Stellenbosch. The speakers for the day are: • Judge Albie Sachs, former judge in the Constitutional Court • Prof Russel Botman, Rector of Stellenbosch University • Ms Phylicia Oppelt, Editor [...]