Jason Brickhill
@jason-brickhill.bsky.social
Advocate | Academic | constitutional law, human rights, strategic litigation | ed-in-chief @SA-ConLaw.bsky.social
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Institute for Economic Justice and Another v Minister of Social Development and Others (071891/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 29 (23 January 2025)
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Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
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An anti-migrant protest by Operation Dudula outside Seri’s offices backfired when civil society organisations gathered in solidarity with the rights group.
XENOPHOBIA AND ANTI-XENOPHOBIA: Civil society groups stand firm with rights institute against Operation Dudula protest
www.dailymaverick.co.za
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
An anti-migrant protest by Operation Dudula outside Seri’s offices backfired when civil society organisations gathered in solidarity with the rights group.
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Abahlali baseMjondolo humiliated the Operation Dudula xenophobes on the streets of Johannesburg today abahlali.org/node/18479/ Proud moment of counter-hegemonic movement building.
July 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Abahlali baseMjondolo humiliated the Operation Dudula xenophobes on the streets of Johannesburg today abahlali.org/node/18479/ Proud moment of counter-hegemonic movement building.
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Sadism as a defining United States value: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the rise of a culture in which cruelty is not an aberration, but a structural necessity—used to dominate the poor, racialized, feminized, and excluded. scheerpost.com/2021/06/29/c...
Chris Hedges Speaks on ‘American Sadism’
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
scheerpost.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Sadism as a defining United States value: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges charts the rise of a culture in which cruelty is not an aberration, but a structural necessity—used to dominate the poor, racialized, feminized, and excluded. scheerpost.com/2021/06/29/c...
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🔒 Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa. Dudula spreads conspiracy theories and tries to stoke moral panic to justify its actions. www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa
Dudula is not a response to the actual nature of our crisis; it's a diversion from it, writes Imraan Buccus.
www.timeslive.co.za
August 3, 2025 at 6:39 AM
🔒 Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa. Dudula spreads conspiracy theories and tries to stoke moral panic to justify its actions. www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...
Excited to have arrived in Brasilia for @icon-s.bsky.social conference!
💥 📄Check out the 2025 ICON•S Conference Booklet!
It includes the full program and a complete index of speakers, chairs, and discussants.
Access it here 👉 icon-society.org/2025conferen...
#iconsbrasília
It includes the full program and a complete index of speakers, chairs, and discussants.
Access it here 👉 icon-society.org/2025conferen...
#iconsbrasília
July 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Excited to have arrived in Brasilia for @icon-s.bsky.social conference!
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The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has launched a report that unpacks the cause of South Africa’s food poverty crisis and looks at legal frameworks to strengthen food security. ‘People are not ignorant about nutrition, rather they are unable to access nutritious food and/or have ...
NUTRITION DISTRESS: Hunger crisis — rights group calls for state action as 23% of South Africans struggle to access food
www.dailymaverick.co.za
June 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa has launched a report that unpacks the cause of South Africa’s food poverty crisis and looks at legal frameworks to strengthen food security. ‘People are not ignorant about nutrition, rather they are unable to access nutritious food and/or have ...
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The Constitutional Court will on 21 and 22 May 2025 hear submissions relating to the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill that has been in the making since as far back as 2015.
CONCOURT SUBMISSIONS OP-ED: Educational exceptions in Copyright Amendment Bill are mandated by international law and the Constitution
www.dailymaverick.co.za
May 16, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The Constitutional Court will on 21 and 22 May 2025 hear submissions relating to the constitutionality of the Copyright Amendment Bill that has been in the making since as far back as 2015.
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Listen to Professor Loren Landau share his thoughts on the US government’s decision to grant some white South Africans refugee status in the US
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Loren Landau, a professor of migration and development at Oxford University, shares his thoughts on the message the #Trump administration is sending by granting some white South Africans refugee statu...
TikTok video by Al Jazeera English
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May 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Listen to Professor Loren Landau share his thoughts on the US government’s decision to grant some white South Africans refugee status in the US
www.tiktok.com/@aljazeeraen...
www.tiktok.com/@aljazeeraen...
With my pupil, Lovey Sithole, at the Johannesburg Bar’s cocktail event to welcome pupils and mentors for 2025.
April 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
With my pupil, Lovey Sithole, at the Johannesburg Bar’s cocktail event to welcome pupils and mentors for 2025.
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We were cited today by the 🇿🇦 Constitutional Court - on the separation of powers - in Commissioner for South African Revenue Service v Richards Bay Coal Terminal.
Court cited chap 2 on 'Constitutionalism' by Brickhill, Hassim, Bishop & Ngcukaitobi.
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...
Court cited chap 2 on 'Constitutionalism' by Brickhill, Hassim, Bishop & Ngcukaitobi.
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...
March 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
We were cited today by the 🇿🇦 Constitutional Court - on the separation of powers - in Commissioner for South African Revenue Service v Richards Bay Coal Terminal.
Court cited chap 2 on 'Constitutionalism' by Brickhill, Hassim, Bishop & Ngcukaitobi.
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...
Court cited chap 2 on 'Constitutionalism' by Brickhill, Hassim, Bishop & Ngcukaitobi.
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAC...
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Here is an edited transcript of the speech by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool that resulted in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring him unwelcome in the US.
groundup.org.za/article/amba...
groundup.org.za/article/amba...
Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool’s speech that made him ‘no longer welcome’ in the US
groundup.org.za
March 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Here is an edited transcript of the speech by Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool that resulted in US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring him unwelcome in the US.
groundup.org.za/article/amba...
groundup.org.za/article/amba...
Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
Institute for Economic Justice and Another v Minister of Social Development and Others (071891/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 29 (23 January 2025)
Download original files
www.saflii.org
February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...