We have entered into an agreement with Varsity College to take 130 of their final year law students in each of our three centres so that they can get practical work experience. Each student will spend 20 hours with ProBono.Org over a five-day period. The first intake...
It is pivotal to recognise the history of change brought about by the legal system in South Africa in legalising LGBTQI+ rights. The country that broke barriers for LGBTQI+ persons and was exemplary to neighbouring countries in Africa. This occurred through landmark...
On 11 June 2020, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga handed down a defining judgment for the political landscape of South Africa. In New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others [202] ZACC 11), the apex court ruled that the...
Masi Ncube – Staff Attorney, Cape Town Masi’s interest in social justice and effecting transformative change through law prompted him to join the ProBono.Org team. He started his legal journey at Stellenbosch University where he was an active member of various...
2021 marks the 15th anniversary since the founding of ProBono.Org. We will mark this occasion in a number of ways, one of these being a special publication featuring reflections by founding directors, our legal practitioners, clients, community advice offices and...
On Thursday 7 September 2017 the fourth Pro Bono Awards ceremony was held at The Social Kitchen at Exclusive Books in Hyde Park Corner.There were 11 award categories, won by: Refugee Law – Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Inc.Housing Law – Sonkozi Ngalonkulu AttorneysEstates Law...
By Siyabonga Zondi and Sinothile Zondi (Durban interns) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the founding document of the United Nations, states that the “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of...
National Adoption Coalition v Head of Department of Social Development for KwaZulu-Natal NO 2020 (4) SA 284 (KZN) (“National Adoption Coalition case” By Dante Adams, Fasken In the Charles Dickens novel, Great Expectations, young Pip remarks that: “In the little world...
By Elsabe Steenhuisen Introduction The disbursements in cases ProBono.Org refers to legal practitioners (“LPs”), are mostly sponsored by the LPs, such as their travel expenses and photocopies. But what about the sheriff’s costs, which can be a substantial...
By Melissa Engelbrecht, Legal Intern – Cape Town In an address to the nation on 23 July 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that millions of rands of COVID-19 relief funds had been lost to corruption; his first official admission of corrupt practices in this...
