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South Africa


This National Site collects leading decisions from South Africa. The National Coordinators for South Africa are:

Lee Anne  de la Hunt

Ms. de la Hunt is currently working as a Legal Adviser to the Minister of Home Affairs, on leave from the University of Cape Town, where she is Director of the Legal Aid Clinic, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law. At the University of Cape Town she teaches refugee and immigration law to undergraduate and postgraduate law students, and supervises and conducts research in refugee law. She is a member of the National Consortium on Refugee Affairs.

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Jacob van Garderen

Advocate Jacob van Garderen is the national project coordinator of Lawyers for Human Rights' Refugee Rights Project and has been actively involved in South African refugee law since 1998. Jacob holds the BCom and LLB degrees from the University of Pretoria and he is a practicing advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

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South Africa's Most Recent Decision

The most recent decision added to the South Africa site is RM v Refugee Appeal Board, a decision rendered in South Africa by the High Court of South Africa on Monday, April 02, 2007, involving an applicant from Angola. A brief summary of the facts of the case is: Angolan man fears persecution by UNITA rebels because of his deceased father's political stance.

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