On December 10th, 2009 JusticeMaker Buhle Dube in Swaziland organized an event to honor the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The event was held at the FanCourt Guest House...
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...
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...
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...
This past weekend Buhle and his team held two workshops in the southern part of Swaziland. On Saturday, they traveled to the Makhonza area where they held a workshop that was attended by over...
Buhle’s team recently visited the community of KaMkhweli to hold a training workshop with community police. Given the community’s rural location, Buhle’s team was expecting the participants to be less receptive and less interested....
Buhle and his team have been working to transfer a case to the magistrate court that was initially tried in the customary courts. The case involves a woman (the complainant) who followed her partner...
Buhle’s team recently visited the Kaphunga Village area to train community police. They were taught about private arrest, admissibility of evidence, presumption of innocence and the Swazi judicial system. They were given a warm welcome...
Buhle’s team has reported a successful start to their project, having carried out two workshops educating community police on human rights. The first session was in the Mbhuleni township, where in the past local...
Congratulations are in order for our 2008 JusticeMakers fellows who have been featured in a recent article in the Swazi Observer. The newspaper highlights the efforts of a local JusticeMakers fellow, Buhle Angelo Dube,...