Swazi JusticeMakers Begin Phase Two
Seven months into their program to combat police torture and fight for human rights in the traditional courts Buhle Dube and his team of JusticeMakers have started to look to the future. After receiving...
JusticeMakers Team Visits Swazi Traditional Courts
“Seven months in prison or 240 Emalangeni fine.” Ndumiso Dlamini, the court president who threw out Hlengiwe Msibi’s case, proclaimed the sentence in Mliba’s traditional court. Involving a fight between romantic rivals, assault with...
JusticeMakers Take on Assault Victim’s Case
On November 27th 2008 a romantic rival stabbed Hlengiwe Msibi six times in the forehead. Seven months later she is still waiting for justice to be done. After bringing her assailant to trial in...
JusticeMaker Buhle Dube’s Views on Human Rights, Africa, and Being a Pilot.
During a free hour in a hectic weekend of workshops Buhle Dube, JusticeMakers grant-winner and law professor at the University of Swaziland, leaned forward and described how he decided to become a lawyer.”Well I...
Torture and police abuse take front stage during workshops with Swazi police
During workshops Buhle Dube and his JusticeMakers team held last weekend complaints from community police uncovered incidents of mob justice and torture. The team was in southern Swaziland at the villages of Matsanjeni in...
Swazi JusticeMaker shares achievements and difficulties with local lawyers
This past Friday 2008 JusticeMakers Fellow Buhle Dube held an event at local restaurant Quatermain’s with Swazi and international lawyers. Buhle hoped to spread word of the successes and challenges he and his volunteer...
Swazi JusticeMakers Run Workshop with Community Police on Prisoner Abuse
On a cold Saturday morning Buhle Dube and the rest of the Swaziland Justice Makers team journey to Ngwenya to lead a workshop on prisoners’ rights and the legal system for community police. A...
Welcome to Swaziland
These were the first words we heard upon arrival in Manzini, Swaziland’s largest city. Emerging from our minibus into the swarming chaos of the bus rank we found Gugu Simelane, a fourth year law...