by rendani | Oct 6, 2016 | Law Focus, News
Wits University has been the scene of violent clashes over the past few weeks as private security and the SA Police Service armed with rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas have faced off against protesters some of whom are armed with stones. At the Law Focus, we...
by rendani | Sep 29, 2016 | Law Focus, News
The Wits Radio Academy in collaboration with Culture Review online- www.culture-review.co.za/home brings you Kulture Lab. A recording of an array of speakers at the Afrikan Freedom Station talking about ideas of belonging, space and ownership. In the “woke” young...
by rendani | Sep 23, 2016 | Law Focus, News
The fight for free, decolonised education has made its way onto University campuses. #FeesMustFall 2016 edition was triggered by the Minister of Education Blade Nzimande’s announcement for a recommended 8% cap on fee increments. Students denounced the fee increment...
by rendani | Sep 8, 2016 | Law Focus, News
A group of pupils at Pretoria Girls High protested against the school’s racially discriminatory Code of Conduct which prohibits the girls from wearing their natural Afros to school. An old conversation made its way onto the national agenda yet again. We discuss the...
by rendani | Sep 1, 2016 | Law Focus, News
We look at Black Lives Matter and the criminalization of black bodies in New York with senior journalist at the Wits Justice Project-Ruth Hopkins. Hopkins spent some time in New York researching the Black Lives Matter movement and the criminal justice system. We then...
by rendani | Aug 25, 2016 | Law Focus, News
Tonight on #Law Focus we discuss the history and legalities of “gender testing” at International Olympic games following Dutee Chands case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Last year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport agreed with Indian athlete Dutee...
