Petition Support Community-Based Paralegals' Inclusion in the Legal Practice Bill. (1) The Legal Practice Bill [B12-2012] must include equitable & justifiable regulation, recognition & formal integration of Community-Based Paralegals into the formal justice sector. (2) The Department has removed all references to paralegals in the Bill, which were present in the first working draft. (3) Given the central role Community-Based Paralegals have in enhancing access to justice for the poor and vulnerable, it must be of great concern to all citizens, that they have yet to be recognised as legal practitioners.
This will continue to have an adverse impact on access to justice and the sustainability of the Community Advice Offices. (4) Given that government has a primary responsibility to ensure access to justice for the poor and vulnerable, government ought to take steps to ensure the sustainability of the Community Advice Office and Community-Based Paralegal sectors Your support will make a difference! Sponsor Links www.nadcao.org.za. The Economics Of The Google Gigabit.
South Sudan rebel now president takes on poverty, graft. July 08, 2012|By Pascal Fletcher | Reuters.
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Opportunity closing date: Monday, June 25, 2012 Opportunity type: Fellowships and Scholarships. Job cuts looming at Cell C. The mobile operator could cut as much as 12% of its workforce as it seeks to deal with 'overstaffing'.
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Opportunity closing date: Thursday, May 31, 2012. MTN launches WACS in Cape Town. The much awaited ultra high-capacity West Africa Cable Systems (WACS) undersea cable has been launched in Cape Town, opening the way for MTN operations across Africa to begin to offer commercial services on the back of the fibre cable.
This sets the tone for the commercial launch of WACS in Ghana in a few weeks in fulfillment of a promise by MTN Ghana CEO, Michael Ikpoki that commercial launch in Ghana would be in the second quarter of the year. The 17,200km fibre submarine cable links Southern and Western Africa to Europe, and promised to South Africa’s current broadband capacity by more than 500 Gigabits per second (Gbps). This will be a much-needed boost to MTN operations in South Africa, where consumer appetite for data quadrupled during 2011, with data consumption (excluding SMS) up by approximately 200% year-on-year.
In the same period, smartphones usage increased by 128% to 3,6 million users, while data users soured to 10,9 million. Criminalization of prostitution as a violation of sex workers’ health rights. (My thanks to IntLawGrrls for the opportunity to contribute this guest post) My Fordham Law students and I recently returned from a research trip to Cape Town, where we’re working with the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force (logo at right) and other stakeholders on the campaign to decriminalize sex work in South Africa.
We had the opportunity to lead a “creative space” session with a large group of South African sex workers allied with SWEAT, and we asked them how the criminalization of prostitution affects their lives. Among other challenges, they described how criminalization fosters grinding stigma and discrimination that creates barriers to their access to health services. StigmatizationThe Global Network of Sex Work Projects rightly notes that access to condoms and safe sex information drives down sex worker rates of HIV and sexually transmitted infections. White Spaces: Real Deal? Fierce Wireless has a review of White Space radio technology.
Author Tammy Parker says it could soon become a major force with ground-breaking devices and services. White-spaces are unused TV channels. Depending upon world region, that spectrum generally falls somewhere in the 450-800 MHz range. In the United States, TV bands consist of six-megahertz channels primarily in the 470-698 MHz UHF band. Rural areas with few TV stations contain huge swaths of available white space.
Applications for TV white space include public safety, smart grids, ad-hoc mobile networks, home networking, one-way and two-way video, rural broadband delivery and more. Yesterday Neul announced the world’s first city-wide, white space network in Cambridge, England. They’re showcasing the world’s first-ever smart electricity meter reading over a white space network. The network operates using the Weightless standard, which is being developed by Neul and other interested parties. Rape & the very slow death of patriarchy - Daily Maverick.
New CEO for Broadband Infraco. Puleng Sejanamane will replace Andrew Shaw as CEO of the state-owned telecommunications infrastructure company.
Malusi Gigaba Puleng Sejanamane has been appointed CEO of the state-owned Broadband Infraco by public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba. “This is one of the final building blocks being put into place to re-establish the leadership team at Infraco, under the guidance of a revitalised and re-energised board,” Gigaba’s department said on Wednesday. Sejanamane takes over from acting CEO Andrew Shaw, who headed up the company since March 2011. “The minister also thanks the acting CEO … for stabilising Infraco during a difficult time.” Infraco received a qualified audit in February last year due to irregular expenditure of R151m, and fruitless and wasteful expenditure of R1,9m.