The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development – www.justice.gov.za
Read all rights in ‘Chapter 2.35 Arrested, detained and accused persons’ by downloading the constitution: www.justice.gov.za/legislation/constitution/bill-of-rights.html
Legal Aid South Africa – http://www.legal-aid.co.za/?p=16
Paying for private lawyers is expensive. This government body has been set up to make legal aid available to people who cannot afford it. It has offices all over the country.
Legal Aid Clinics – most Universities with Law Departments offer these free facilities. E.g:
• Potchefstroom Law Clinic: www.nwu.ac.za/p-fl-law-clinic
• Rhodes Law Clinic: www.ru.ac.za/lawclinic
• Stellenbosch Legal Aid Clinic: www0.sun.ac.za/slsj/tag/legal-aid-clinic
• University of KwaZulu-Natal: aw.ukzn.ac.za/LawClinic
• University of Pretoria: web.up.ac.za › UP Law Clinic
• University of the Western Cape: www.uwc.ac.za/Faculties/LAW/Pages/Legal-Aid-Clinic.
• University of Johannesburg Law Clinic: www.uj.ac.za/en/faculties/law/about
• Unisa Legal Aid Clinic: www.unisa.ac.za
• WITS: www.wits.ac.za/lawclinic
They provide free legal services to students and poor people and communities.
Centre for Applied Legal Studies – www.wits.ac.za/law/cals
CALS, among other projects, works ‘on remand detention and prison conditions in South Africa’.
The Community Law Centre – www.communitylawcentre.org.za
This Centre is at the University of the Western Cape and aims to ‘promote good governance, socio-economic development and the protection of the rights of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.’ They are running a ‘Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI)’ to improve constitutional and human rights in prisons
The Legal Resources Centre – www.lrc.org.za
The organisation has offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown. They use the law ‘as an instrument of justice and provide legal services for the vulnerable and marginalised, including the poor, homeless, and landless people.’
Lawyers for Human Rights – www.lhr.org.za/programme
This organisation ‘provides free legal services to vulnerable, marginalised and indigent individuals and communities, both non-national and South African, who are victims of unlawful infringements of their constitutional rights.’
