Jason Brickhill

XENOPHOBIA AND ANTI-XENOPHOBIA: Civil society groups stand firm with rights institute against Operation Dudula protest

An anti-migrant protest by Operation Dudula outside Seri’s offices backfired when civil society organisations gathered in solidarity with the rights group.

Abahlali baseMjondolo humiliated the Operation Dudula xenophobes on the streets of Johannesburg today abahlali.org/node/18479/ Proud moment of counter-hegemonic movement building.

Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’ Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.

Sadism as a defining United States value: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the rise of a culture in which cruelty is not an aberration, but a structural necessity—used to dominate the poor, racialized, feminized, and excluded. scheerpost.com/2021/06/29/c...

Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa Dudula is not a response to the actual nature of our crisis; it's a diversion from it, writes Imraan Buccus.

🔒 Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa. Dudula spreads conspiracy theories and tries to stoke moral panic to justify its actions. www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...

Excited to have arrived in Brasilia for @icon-s.bsky.social conference!

NUTRITION DISTRESS: Hunger crisis — rights group calls for state action as 23% of South Africans struggle to access food

The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has launched a report that unpacks the cause of South Africa’s food poverty crisis and looks at legal frameworks to strengthen food security. ‘People are not ignorant about nutrition, rather they are unable to access nutritious food and/or have ...

CONCOURT SUBMISSIONS OP-ED: Educational exceptions in Copyright Amendment Bill are mandated by international law and the Constitution

The Constitutional Court will on 21 and 22 May 2025 hear submissions relating to the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill that has been in the making since as far back as 2015.

Loren Landau, a professor of migration and development at Oxford University, shares his thoughts on the message the #Trump administration is sending by granting some white South Africans refugee statu... TikTok video by Al Jazeera English

Listen to Professor Loren Landau share his thoughts on the US government’s decision to grant some white South Africans refugee status in the US

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With my pupil, Lovey Sithole, at the Johannesburg Bar’s cocktail event to welcome pupils and mentors for 2025.

We were cited today by the 🇿🇦 Constitutional Court - on the separation of powers - in Commissioner for South African Revenue Service v Richards Bay Coal Terminal.

Court cited chap 2 on 'Constitutionalism' by Brickhill, Hassim, Bishop & Ngcukaitobi.

www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...

Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool’s speech that made him ‘no longer welcome’ in the US

Here is an edited transcript of the speech by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool that resulted in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring him unwelcome in the US.
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Statement | Historic judgment in SRD grant court case In a resounding victory for South Africa’s most vulnerable, the North Gauteng (Pretoria) High Court handed down judgment yesterday in the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant court case, finding in t...

The media statement by IEJ & PTG is 👇:

iej.org.za/statement-hi...

The court papers & heads of argument are 👇:

iej.org.za/statement-sr...

The state respondents are seeking leave to appeal.

Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇

www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...