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Former CALS director @bonimeyersfeld.bsky.social is delivering her inaugural lecture as a full professor later this month.
đź“… 29 June 2026
🕔 17:00 – 18:00
đź“Ť Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House
RSVP: shorturl.at/tDsAP
Please join us in celebrating this achievement!
Attend online: shorturl.at/ox4BN
Head of our Home, Land and Rural Democracy programme Thuto Gabaphethe is set to present at this dialogue hosted by the South African Human Rights Commission on contemporary forms of dispossession within democratic South Africa
Happy Youth Day, South Africa 🇿🇦
Today, we mark 50 years since the Soweto Uprising. This serves as a reminder that the rights in our Constitution were hard-won. We remember that preamble calls on us all to build a society based on social justice.
This week, CALS is in the Western Cape High Court acting as a friend of the court. We hope to assist the Court to draw the distinction between hate speech and political speech, and determine the limits of the right to protest
Find out more: www.wits.ac.za/news/sources...
In case you missed it: Our Home, Land and Rural Democracy team unpack some of the problems with a new Bill that proposes to change the law around evictions
Applications close today!
Apply to join our team as a candidate legal practitioner: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
Reminder: CALS is looking for a candidate legal practitioner to join our team.
Applications close 15 May 2026
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CALS is hiring!
We're looking for a new candidate legal practitioner to join our team this year. Please share as widely as possible.
Find the full requirements and apply here: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
New op-ed out!
Our @leeannegaertner.bsky.social, Thuto Gabaphethe, Lulama Madyaka and Robert Krause unpack some of the issues with proposed amendments to the laws around evictions
CALS is at the Wits University Law Careers Day today! Come past our stand to learn about careers in public interest law and opportunities to work with us
CALS is hiring!
We're looking for a new candidate legal practitioner to join our team this year. Please share as widely as possible.
Find the full requirements and apply here: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
CALS is hiring!
We're looking for a new candidate legal practitioner to join our team this year. Please share as widely as possible.
Find the full requirements and apply here: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
A new Bill proposes a R2-million fine or two years’ in prison for anyone who allows another person to occupy land or a building without the owner’s permission.
Read groundup.org.za/article/draf... by ee-Anne Gaertner, Thuto Gabaphethe, Lulama Madyaka and Robert Krause
A new Bill proposes a R2-million fine or two years’ in prison for anyone who allows another person to occupy land or a building without the owner’s permission.
Read groundup.org.za/article/draf... by ee-Anne Gaertner, Thuto Gabaphethe, Lulama Madyaka and Robert Krause
Centre for Applied Legal Studies
Centre for Applied Legal Studies
A new Bill proposes to criminalise land occupation and strip away eviction protections
