Oxford LibGuides: South Africa : legal resources: Human Rights

Human Rights in South Africa

Equality Court (South Africa)
Official website. "For the purpose of the Equality Act, every High Court is Equality Court for the area of its jurisdiction. The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development has designated a large number of equality courts throughout the country, with equality clerks appointed to assist the public when lodging complaints. Equality courts are established to ensure that reported cases of alleged unfair discrimination are dealt with to ensure justice for all"
South African Human Rights Commission
Official website
The Legal Resources Centre
LRC’S MISSION "to undertake evidence-informed action focused on advancing the transformation of South Africa as a democratic society, using the law as an instrument to remove persistent and pervasive structural obstacles to human rights – with a targeted focus on land and education rights over the next 5 years. " Includes online library of judgments and related texts.
CORMSA: Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa
Free resource

Labour & Employment rights

Trade unions and employers’ organisations may form bargaining councils. Bargaining councils deal with collective agreements, solve labour disputes, establish various schemes and make proposals on labour policies and laws.

Department of Labour (South Africa)
Official website- the link is to the Resource Centre collection

Texts on topic

The Bill of Rights handbook by Currie, Iain. | De Waal, Johan ; Law Society of South Africa
Call Number: S Africa 510 D515a6
ISBN: 0702199990
Publication Date: (6th ed 2013)
The Protection of Human Rights in South Africa by John C. Mubangizi
Call Number: S Africa 510 M941a2
ISBN: 0702199176
Publication Date: (2nd ed, 2013)
Bodies of Truth : law, memory, and emancipation in post-apartheid South Africa by Rita Kesselring
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780804798488
Publication Date: 2016
Print copy available in Social Science Library JC599.S6.KES 2017
A discourse on African philosophy : a new perspective on ubuntu and transitional justice in South Africa by Christian B.N. Gade ; foreword by Michael Onyebuchi Eze
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 9781498512268
Publication Date: 2017

Human rights in general

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Human Rights
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