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Collaborating on Open Legislation in Poland, Romania and South Africa
What we learnt collaborating with Romania and Poland on civic tech for open legislation.
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Tweeting for Accountability: Exploring NPA Accountability using Twitter
Social media platforms like Twitter have gained immense popularity as tools to communicate with the public. Using an accountability framework we…
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Empowering Yourself: How to Access Information through PAIA
A primer on how to use South Africa’s Promotion of Access to Information Act
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Paper, Law and Truth
The legal industry in South Africa is still dominated by paper records as a data source, limiting or problematising attempts to analyse information…
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Why do courts have to consider your personal circumstances in an eviction matter?
Are evictions being conducted in compliance with South African Law? Insights from SERI’s research.
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The Eviction Guide now includes resources for all South African provinces
OpenUp has added legal resources such as Legal Aid, the Legal Practice Council, and the Rental Housing Tribunal for all 9 provinces in South Africa.
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If my landlord tells me to leave, do I have to?
Some landlords take advantage of tenants' lack of knowledge to evict them without following proper procedures and ignore the process developed to…
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Open Courts: Innovating access to justice
Open Courts provides the public with access to high court records from around South Africa
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COVID-19: You cannot be evicted during lockdown
The government has banned evictions for the duration of the COVID-19 lockdown
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Using by-laws to tackle local service delivery
How Cape Agulhas youth found solutions to illegal liquor sales and poor refuse removal in their local by-laws
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Tenants’ Relationship Status with Eviction Law: It’s complicated.
By understanding how complex legal processes play out in the real world (not just in a textbook) we can design tools and systems that empower…
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How Wynberg court is evading public scrutiny
The Eviction Task Team, a group of activists, researchers and volunteers, write about their hostile experience of Cape Town Magistrate's Court, open…
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