ALL RISE 2021 – Our Year in Review

2021 has been a challenging year for ALL RISE and our clients as we have continued to navigate the Covid-19 pandemic on top of all the usual challenges faced in the public interest law space. With our small but dedicated team we are very proud of all we have accomplished this year and take this […]

Kirsten Youens speaks at Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Summit in Mozambique

Kirsten Youens, Chief Executive Director of ALL RISE was invited to attend the Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Summit in Mozambique last week to share her experience as an environmental defender and as a lawyer defending those who are in need of environmental justice. She addressed important issues such as government being held accountable for […]

SUSTAINING THE WILD COAST AND COMMUNITIES SEEK INTERDICT AGAINST SHELL IN SECOND APPLICATION

Sustaining the Wild Coast 2021/12/3 Yesterday (2 December 2021), Sustaining the Wild Coast and several Wild Coast communities filed papers seeking to interdict Shell’s seismic survey on the Wild Coast. Sustaining the Wild Coast (SWC), together with the Dwesa-Cwebe Communal Property Association, fishermen – Ntsindiso Nongcavu (Port St Johns), Sazise Maxwell Pekayo and Cameron Thorpe […]

REVIEW HEARING HEARD 10-12 NOVEMBER IN THE PRETORIA HIGH COURT – SOME FEEDBACK

The court hearing for the review of Tendele’s vast 2016 mining right was from the 10 – 12 November 2021. The hearing of the case went well, with the Applicants’ advocate, the formidable Anna-Marie de Vos  presenting a clear and compelling argument. Acting Judge Bam was clearly well prepared and concerned about the impact of […]

Appeal of Water Use Licence – Tendele Coal Mine

Last week brought another challenge to Tendele Mining (Pty) Ltd, a subsidiary of Petmin, with an appeal being lodged against its water use licence issued by the Acting Director-General of the Department of Water and Sanitation.  The appeal was lodged by ALL RISE Attorneys for Climate and Environmental Justice on behalf of the Mfolozi Environmental […]

Dates confirmed for Review Application

Good news: Deputy Judge President Ledwaba has confirmed that our Review application will be heard on 10, 11 and 12 NOVEMBER 2021. Parties are working hard at trying to limit the issues in dispute (which will also limit the reading of the 8000 page record) and have been instructed to file a revised Joint Practice […]

Defending the Defenders Webinar – 22 October 2021

Friday, the 22nd October 2021, is one year after environmental defender, Fikile Ntshangase was murdered in her home. Watch this webinar with Kirsten Youens, Arnold Tsunga, Mary de Haas, Louis Wilson, Mary Lawlor and Rowan Williams as they discuss local and global issues and how to defend the defenders. Facilitated by Simphiwe Sidu. This Webinar […]

Press Release: 18 October 2021

Call for justice for environmental defender – Fikile Ntshangase – a year after her murder in South Africa. On October 22nd last year, Fikile Ntshangase was at home with her grandson Buyile in Ophondweni, Kwazulu-Natal province, South Africa. Three unknown men arrived and shot her dead in her living room. Fikile was a mother and grandmother, a […]