Course content Legal Training Programme Materials
Law for Social Change
This programme, Law for Social Change, is the result of our ongoing partnership with the Mott Foundation. It aims to cultivate and raise consciousness amongst social justice activists and movements on how law can be used/leveraged to advance our struggles. This programme looks at the historical impact of legislation in South Africa, particularly how it has been used to dispossess and marginalise people. It further explores the history of our constitution, evaluating its potential as an instrument to advance our collective struggles. The program also looks at precedents where the law has been effectively used to achieve various struggles. Additionally, it emphasises or highlight the strengths, potential, and limitations of leveraging legal frameworks as instruments for driving social transformation.
The legal activist’s school was a four-day program from the 1st – 4th of April 2024, in King Williams Town, Eastern Cape. We had 25 activists from various movements of different sectors active mainly in rural communities of the Eastern Cape. This was an intersectional group in terms of age and gender, a diverse group of young and old people.